134 AMERICAN: HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1906 
If it. is a Home 
you are building all the more reason 
for care in the selection of hardware. 
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an artistic design will harmonize with 
the woodwork and other decorations of 
the rooms. 
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possessed of only the crudest ideas on sanitary 
subjects; city folk, when moving out into the 
country, are often confronted with sanitary 
problems of whose solution they know nothing 
whatever. Both classes of people will be 
benefited by Dr. Bashore’s little book. The 
leading questions are discussed briefly and in- 
telligently, although not always with the de- 
tail necessary to a text-book. But it abounds 
with useful suggestions and is an excellent 
opening to a more extended study of some of 
the most important problems that beset the 
householder in the country. A number of 
illustrations add to the practical value of the 
book. 
The Architects’ Directory and 
Specification Index 
THE ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY AND SPECIFI- 
CATION INDEX. By William T. Com- 
stock, publisher, New York. 1905-1906. 
Pp. 176. Price, $2.00 net. 
The seventh edition of ‘“The Architects’ Di- 
rectory and Specification Index” for 1905- 
1906 makes its appearance in a neatly bound 
volume in red cloth and white lettering. It 
contains a complete list of the architects of the 
United States and Canada, classified by States 
and towns, indicating those who are mem- 
bers of the American Institute of Architects; 
also the names of the different architectural 
associations in the United States. “The whole 
work is brought out in good shape, and is quite 
unique and attractive, and will be found of 
special value to architects and dealers desiring 
to reach the architects of the country. 
Luther Burbank and His Work 
New CREATIONS IN PLANT Lire. An Au- 
thoritative Account of the Life and Work 
of Luther Burbank. By W. S. Harwood. 
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1905. 
Pp. 144368. 
An authoritative book on the extraordinary 
work of Luther Burbank is a welcome addi- 
tion to contemporary nature literature. Easily 
the foremost living plant propagator, it has 
been his singular good fortune to have carried 
out a vast variety of experiments on the larg- 
est possible scale. It is a mistake, as some of 
his friends and admirers have represented, in 
the warmth of their regard, to view him as a 
pioneer in his chosen labor. Others have done, 
and are doing, quite similar work, but not 
on so large a scale nor with results that have 
attracted such wide attention. 
Mr. Harwood’s book is confessedly that of 
an admirer. It has the double purpose of pre- 
senting the man and of recording his scientific 
achievements. “The former is of quite second- 
ary importance compared with the latter, al- 
though it is useful to know something of the 
personality of so skilful a worker and of a 
man who has achieved results of such wide 
reaching importance. 
Mr. Burbank’s scientific work is here re- 
corded with some regard to minuteness, but in 
a way that must hold the attention of the most 
amateur reader. “The very widest popular in- 
terest has been created in the doings of this 
extraordinary man, an interest that is some- 
what amusingly illustrated in the account 
given of the ways taken to safeguard himself 
and his time from the curiosity of well meant 
but intrusive visitors. Mr. Harwood presents, 
as a whole, a very useful and well written ac- 
count of Mr. Burbank’s work, and his book 
bears obvious evidence of the right to the word 
“authoritative” on its title page. The numer- 
ous illustrations represent some of the more re- 
markable of Mr. Burbank’s achievements, 
and show, also, many of his methods of work. 
Singularly enough, in a book dealing with so 
many and such varied topics, there is no index. 
