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CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1913 



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The Brinckerhoff House Frontispiece 



An Old Homestead of Colonial New Jersey By Joseph Bernard Pearman 267 



Small Bronzes for the Home By Elizabeth Lounsbery 



A Remodeled Farmhouse at Nyack, New York By William T. Phillips 



A Long Bloom in a Hardy Garden By Charlotte Cowdrey Brown 



A Distinctive Cottage at Miami, Florida 



Making a Summer Home Out of an Old Farmhouse By Jessie Tarbox Beals 



The Well-Designed Window of Architectural Harmony 282-283 



The Homestead — The Country Home of Mr. William L. Otis, Waterford, Conn. . . . 284 



Bird Cages By Walter F. Webster 289 



Wax Portraiture By Gardner Teall 293 



Old Time Pipe Stoppers By Marie Elizabeth Camp 295 



Within the House: 



Furnishing the Remodeled Farmhouse By George Crane 296 



Around the Garden: 



The Garden in August 298 



Helps to the Housewife: 



Informal Living in the Open By Elizabeth Atwood 



Collectors' Department 



New Books 

 Collectors' Mart 



299 



Editor's Notebook 



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Copyright 1913 by Munn &Co., Inc. Registered in United States Patent Office. Entered as second-class matter lune 15, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., 

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