Xxii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
The Tale of 
“Old Hickory” 
For ages the trees were man’s shelter and 
abode. He lived in them. ‘They were a part 
of his being. 
But in the van of civilization, the trees dis- 
appeared. Cabins, then houses, finally cities 
sprung up, where once the forest swayed. 
Civilization did its work. The poetry of the 
wilderness was gone. 
But—the desire of man to live in Nature did 
not go. The rough bark of trees, the blue 
skies, still hold their appeal. 
So he went back into the wilderness, and 
there fashioned for himself a seat from the 
rough barked trees therein. 
It served so well, that he brought this work 
of his hands, with other pieces of like craft- 
manship and beauty to match, back to the 
city. 
This is the tale of “Old Hickory.” It is our 
answer to this call of the wild. 
Old Hickory comes in a variety of shapes; 
but it maintains, at all times, its simple and 
primitive appeal. Made of bark, interlaced 
artistically, and reinforced with the strong 
limbs of The Hickory, it is strong and durable. 
No porch produces real satisfaction without 
it; any summer garden which does not boast 
its Old Hickory is a mockery. When you tire 
of the noise and confusion of the town fall 
into a chair of Old Hickory and revel in 
visions of the woods. Old Hickory is ‘the 
link which binds us to the poetry of yesterday. 
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8vo.; 4389 pp. Price, $3.00 net. 
This volume is a history of the im- 
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one of the most famous of modern French 
savants, sees in religions the infinite curi- 
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man’s reason in its infancy; it is as such 
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reason must exercise its rights. The author 
has tried not to wound any conscience, but 
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from any suggestion of sensationalism, and 
the translator, Florence Simmonds, has 
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was suggested by the fact that as well as 
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Price, $2.50 net. 
In thirteen chapters Mr. Lewis Hind 
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This is by far the most complete pre- 
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to serve as a textbook for agricultural col- 
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for many years been the editor of a poultry 
journal, and his editorial instinct has stood 
him in good stead in the preparation of 
this volume, which is as worthy of com- 
mendation for the things excluded as for 
the facts included. The novice will find 
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culture are mostly plausible, and generally 
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result of much reading in advance of a 
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cumulation of obsolete and impracticable 
ideas. 
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