April, 1 9 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XXI 



The Home Poultry Book. By E. I. Far- 

 rington. Xew York: McBride, Nast & 

 Co.: 1913. Cloth. 16mo. Illustrated. 

 172 pp. Price. $1.00 net. 

 Mr. Farrington's articles on poultry rais- 

 ing which have appeared from time to time 

 in American Homes and Gardens serve 

 to suggest the value of "The Home Poultry 

 Book." which is just the reference book for 

 the person who wishes to keep a few hens 

 to supply fresh eggs for the table. It con- 

 tains specific directions and information 

 covering every phase of poultry-raising, 

 from building the house to planning each 

 month's work. The book is elementary, 

 but purposely so as it is designed for the 

 amateur who has no time or inclination to 

 read technical and semi-technical books on 

 poultry keeping. 



The President's Cabinet. By Henry 

 Barrett Learned, Xew Haven : Yale 

 University Press: 1912. Cloth, Svo. 

 4T 1 pp. 



Mr. Learned's studies on "The Presi- 

 dent's Cabinet" is designed to reveal those 

 factors in the history of the executive 

 office which explains the origin and forma- 

 tion of the council as well as the establish- 

 ment of the structural offices which form 

 the institutions. Although, as the student 

 of history will recall, John Morley once 

 wrote: "Few forms of literature or history 

 are so dull as the narrative of political de- 

 bates. With few exceptions, a political 

 speech like the manna in the wilderness 

 loses its savour on the second day." Mr. 

 Learned has found it expedient to give 

 much attention to political debates in the 

 present volume, and wisely too the re- 

 viewer thinks his readers will concede. 

 "The President's Cabinet" is a volume 

 which should be studied by every American 

 and it will have an added interest at this 

 time when a new regime has formed the 

 cabinet of the newly inaugurated President 

 of the United States. 



Art Museums and Schools. By Stocton 

 Axson, Kenyon Cox, G. Stanley Hall and 

 Oliver S. Tonks. Xew York : Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. 1913. Boards, 16mo. 

 144 pp. Price, $1.00 net. 

 Four lectures delivered at the Metropoli- 

 tan Museum of Art, Xew York, as a course 

 for teachers have been gathered into the 

 volume that forms ''Art Museums and 

 Schools." The object of these lectures, 

 which object this volume perpetuates, has 

 been to show instructors in various depart- 

 ments of school work how museum col- 

 lections may be used by them in connec- 

 tion with the teaching of their subjects. 

 The book in question is an excellent pre- 

 sentation of such school and museum co- 

 operation in educational influence and is 

 one that merits careful reading from every- 

 one interested in the development of 

 modern culture. 



The Old Clock Book. By X. Hudson 



Moore. Xew York : Frederick A. 



Stokes Company. 1911. Cloth, 8vo. 



339 pp. Price, $2.40 net. 



"Instruments for marking time," says X. 

 Hudson Moore in the opening chapter of 

 "The Old Clock Book," "have grown from 

 the simple sundial of Ahaz, mentioned in 

 the second book of Kings to complicated 

 recorders made of costly metals. Simple 



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