November, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS xix 
Wuo’s WuHo IN Science. 1912. Edited 
by H. H. Stephenson. New York: The 
MacMillan Company. 1912. Cloth, 8vo. 
323 pages. Price, $2.50 net. 
The Sciences represented in this book take 
no account of those branches of knowledge 
which lie on the borderland between Science 
and Humanities, between the Objective and 
the Subjective. Thus the student will find 
omitted in its consideration Economics, 
Sociology, Psychology, Education and Ex- 
ploration, which the editor considers is more 
a matter of boundaries than of biology. 
While a rigid subdivision of knowledge is 
impossible, and, indeed unserviceable, Mr. 
Stephenson has carried out in arrangement 
an excellent and valuable volume that should 
be among the reference books of every pri- 
vate and public library. 
LaMps AND SHADES IN METAL AND ART 
Grass. By John D. Adams. Chicago: 
Popular Mechanics Company, 1911. 
12mo.; 114 pp. Illustrated. Price, 50 
cents. 
A very fascinating field of activity is 
opened up through the pages of this little 
handbook, and those who are interested in 
such work, either for the beautifying of 
their own homes, for presents to others, or 
as objects of sale, will find explicit direc- 
tions for some artistic pieces. Built-up, sol- 
dered, etched and sawed shades are all 
treated of, and eighteen complete designs 
are offered. 
EartH FEATURES AND THEIR MEANING. 
An introduction to Geology for the Stu- 
dent and the General Reader. By Wil- 
liam Herbert Hobbs. New York: The 
Macmillan Company, 1912. 8vo.; 506 
pp. Price, $3 net. 
There has been room for considerable 
time for a thoroughly modern book on geol- 
ogy, which should contain the modern con- 
cepts of the science conveyed in easily un- 
derstood terms and well illustrated. The 
author seems to have produced an ideal 
book in many ways. It is finely illustrated 
by 493 maps, plans and illustrations, the 
most interesting of which are those which 
show the development of topographical 
maps and graphic representation of physical 
phenomena by simple means. The study 
of geology is an excellent discipline for the 
mind and is of service eyen to those who 
never put the knowledge to practical use. 
Far more than in former years the Ameri- 
can travels afar by car or steamship and the 
earth’s surface features in all their mani- 
fold diversity are thus one after the other 
unrolled before him. The thousands who 
each year cross the Atlantic to roam 
through European countries, prepare them- 
selves by historical, literary and artistic 
studies to derive exquisite pleasure from 
their visit. Yet the Channel coast, the gorge 
of the Rhine, the glaciers of Switzerland, 
and the wild scenery of Norway or Scot- 
land, have each their fascinating story to 
tell of a history far more remote and 
varied. To read this history, the runic char- 
acter in which it is written must first of 
all be mastered; for in every landscape 
there are strong individual lines of char- 
acter, such as the pen artist would skillfully 
extract from an outline sketch. 
The object of the present volume is to 
enable the student to himself pick out in 
each landscape these more significant lines, 
and thus read directly from nature. Re- 
garded as a text book of geology, the pres- 
ent volume offers some departures from 
existing examples, but this does not inter- 
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