XXIV AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS March, 1912 
Home Waterworks. A Manual of Water 
Supply in Country Homes. By Carleton 
J. Lynde, Professor of Physics in Mac- 
Donald College, Quebec. New York: 
Sturgis & Walton Company, Cloth; 5 by 
7% inches; pp. 270; 106 text figures. 
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tary problems, however brief, hardly find 
a place in such a book. Not all of the 
statements made on the subject of sanita- 
tion can be commended. Whatever the au- 
thor may believe, the septic tank is not gen- 
erally to be recommended. Despite these 
faults, the author has performed a really 
useful service in giving the general reader, 
without too much technical verbiage, a good 
idea of the various kinds of water supply 
systems which are available for country use. 
He has also given descriptions of the 
methods in which most of the apparatus 
described operates, which, although not 
strictly necessary, 1s nevertheless good, be- 
cause only too few householders know any- 
thing of the physical principles that are in- 
volved in the construction and operation of 
water supply systems. 
Roap Ricuts or Motorists. By Twyman 
©. Abbott. New York: Outing Publish- 
ing. Co., 1910; Cloth, l2mes oeiice 
$1.50 net. 
This is the book for the man who wants 
to know his rights and obligations on the 
highway. The Rules of the Road contain 
in full the law and the custom touching 
cirection of travel, speed, responsibility for 
accidents, the meaning of negligence and all 
the manifold things that the motorist must 
know. Then follow the Motor Vehicle 
Statutes of all the states in alphabetical 
order. The volume closes with a General 
Index. Contains in compact form informa- 
tion that can be secured in no other single 
volume. 
[TALIAN CASTLES AND CounTRY SEaTs. By 
Tryphosa Bates Batcheller. New York: 
Longmans, Green & Company, 1911. 
Large 8vo; illustrated; 512 pp. Price, 
$5.00 net. 
Mrs. Batcheller’s “Glimpses of Italian 
Court Life” is well known to the public, and 
the present volume will therefore find a 
circle of appreciators of this writer looking 
forward to this new volume from her pen. 
Travelers in foreign lands are inclined in 
writing of their travels and sojourns to 
show the more picturesque side of the life, 
which is the life of the lower classes, but 
Mrs. Batcheller presents the other side of 
Italian life, her stories sparkling with bright 
bits of biographies of men and women in 
the Italy of to-day, thus presenting a vivid 
and intimate picture of contemporary Ital- 
ian life. Not only is the volume interesting 
in text, but it is beautiful in typography and 
in its binding. 
Tue IpeaL ItTar1AN Tour. By Henry 
James Forman, Boston: Houghton-Mif- 
flin Company, 1911. Small, 16mo.; illus- 
trated. Price, $1.50 net. 
The object of this volume is to serve as a 
companion book to the traveler in Italy, as 
well as to supply an interesting and readable 
account of an Italian tour to the general 
reader. It aims to suggest an ideal tour in 
the most absorbing country in the world, 
leading the reader through the myriads of 
sights to those no traveler should miss, and 
telling him simply, picturesquely, and ef- 
fectively, the things all travelers desire to 
know. 
