June, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS xxi 
Tue Musrcar Amateur. By Robert 
Haven Schauffler. Boston: Houghton 
Mifflin Company. Price, $1.50 net. 
This delightful volume which is quite out 
of the ordinary run, is, as its author ex- 
plains, intended as a book on the human 
side of music. It is a book for the listener 
as well as for the composer and performer 
and brims over with personality, and a win- 
some personality at that. In this delight- 
ful monograph each chapter is more be- 
guiling than its fellow. Among such chap- 
ters one will find “The Creative Listener,” 
“The Wearing Qualities of Music” and 
“The Amateur Art.” ‘One is justified in 
recommending this work to musicians as a 
volume entertaining to amateurs as well as 
instructive and interesting. 
A simple design in TOBEY HANDMADE FURNITURE, 
} 
3 
offered in solid St. Jago Mahogany in | ee 
two sizes, as follows: : 
24 x 36 inches, $35. 28 x 42 inches, $42 2 ee 
‘ 
j 
| 
THe New History. James Harvey 
Robinson. New York: The Macmillan 
Company. 1912. Cloth, 12 mo. 266 pp. 
Price $1.50 net. 
Professor Robinson’s valuable contribu- 
tion to the literature of historical study 
in the form of the volume of essays, “The 
New History,” clearly points out the neces- 
sity of our deserting the old straw-methods 
even yet current, and of turning to history 
as something that should help us to under- 
stand ourselves and our fellows and the 
problems and prospects of mankind, in 
which aspect history’s usefulness has, in 
the past, been most commonly neglected. 
Professor Robinson’s volume should be 
read and followed by everyone interested 
in intellectual progress. 
HE QUALITY OF TOBEY HANDMADE 
FURNITURE may be judged just as well by the 
simple, less expensive pieces, as by the more 
sumptuous ones, because it is the same inall. In 
beauty and texture of wood, and in character of 
cabinet-work and finish, we have but one standard— 
the highest, we believe, that is now being maintained. 
And so we submit at this time the moderate-priced Tobey Hand- 
made Library Table illustrated above, in the hope that by it we may 
be able to introduce Tobey Handmade Furniture into many homes 
where it has not yet been known, and that thus we may secure a 
still wider opportunity for substantiating our claims. 
Tue Way oF THE BuppHA. By Herbert 
Baynes, M:R.A.S. New York: E. P. 
Dutton & Co. Cloth; 16mo.; 132 pages. 
Prices, 60 cents net. 
The object of this little book is to give 
the reader a succinct account of an Eastern 
sage whose doctrine of the Path has been 
accepted by millions of the human race, and 
whose influence is still felt at the ends of 
the earth. In “The Way of the Buddha,’ 
Mr. Baynes has succeeded in doing this ad- 
mirably. 
We are willing and anxious that your opinion of TOBEY HAND- 
MADE FURNITURE shall rest upon the comparison which 
this table sustains with any other article of furniture in your home. 
RA ROBEY RURINID URE COMEAN Y 
NEW YORK—Eleven West Thirty-Second Street 
CHICAGO—Weabash Avenue and Washington Street 
ITALIAN ScuLptors. By W. G. Waters. 
New York; George H. Doran Company. 
Cloth, 8vo. Illustrated. 281 pages. 
Price, $2.00 net. 
This volume deals with the Italian 
sculptors and smiths of the most momen- 
tous period of the history of art, from the 
Pisani and their fore-runners to the suc- 
cessors of Bernini, 1150-1690. Its purpose 
is to give a complete biographical and 
critical review of the development and 
progress of Italian Sculpture up to the end 
of the golden age. Hitherto, as a general 
rule, the subject has been presented to the 
American reader in individual biographies 
or dissertations on separate schools of sculp- 
ture. Great artists are naturally given lib- 
eral space; but others, makers of the beau- 
tiful and interesting, who have failed to win 
wide popularity, are generously treated, 
with the object of giving their merits a 
more general appreciation. With regard to 
the attribution of uncertain or unsigned 
works, the conservative attitude has been 
maintained. For the ready reference of 
students and travelers in Italy the book is 
arranged alphabetically, under the names of 
artists, and indexed under the names of 
{ICKORY FUR [TURE (0, 
Golf and Country Clubs equipped with Rustic 
g : % { Hickory Furniture have extra attractions for —bent into Rectal curves and Baceese ats 
towns in which objects of art interest are members and their guests. It is thoroughly in ‘S and backs of hand-woven flexible inner strips 
t b f L I | 1 { keeping with nature in all outdoor enjoyments. Many of re- . —all in the natural wood. One hundred or morestyles of 
Oo sy ounc t nas aiso a well- -arranged fined taste wh appreciate its artistic qualities as well asthecomfort | Chairs, Rockers, Settees, Tables, Swings, Couches, Tabourcts, Law 
~ i and durability it offers, are adopting it generally. Rustic Hickory | Seats, Sideboards, Rustic Benches, Hanging Baskets, Lawn Vase 
index of anony MOUs sculptut € and is very j is also ideal furniture for Country Homes, Fashionable Resorts, Roof | Pergolas, Window Boxes, Fences, Summer Houses, Costumers, etc. 
fully illustrated and may be recommended Gardens, Bungalows, Studios, Cottages, Porches, Parks, Lawns, | Price so reasonable anyone can afford it. Ask your dealer 
™ and all places where comfort, beauty and strength are desired. and if he cannot supply you write to us. Catalogue on request. 
as one of the most helpful art books of the RUSTIC HICKORY FURNITURE CO., 103 STATE STREET, LA PORTE, INDIANA 
year. 
4 
