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THE GLEN STEEL FOLDING MAT 
Prevents Anyone Tracking Mud or Snow Into the House. 
One scrape of the foot in any direction across a Glen Steel Mat takes off all those balls of mud 
and snow which hang so tenaciously and resist all the ordinary mats. The Glen Mat is neat and 
attractive, is easily cleaned, does not curl up. Its wonderful construction and flexibility will make 
it wear a lifetime. Unexcelled for residences and entrances to all public and private buildings. 
All first class dealers handle the Glen. If yours don’t, write to-day for catalog and particulars, 
We make bar and soda-fountain mats on same principle. 
GLEN MANUFACTURING CO., 148 Mill St., Ellwood City, Pa. 
Also Mfrs. Hartman Steel Picket Fence, Hartman Flexible Wire Mats, 
and Hartman Stockade Woven Wire Fence. 
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Old Pewter 
Oxtp PeEwrTer, Brass, CopPpER AND SHEF- 
FIELD PLATE. By N. Hudson Moore. 
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. Pp. 
13+322. Price, $2.00 net; postpaid 
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A convenient and modest handbook on old 
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manner. Issued in a style similar to the other 
handbooks prepared by this author it contains 
more than one hundred illustrations of old 
ware, many of them here reproduced for the 
first time. As an illustrative record the book 
has singular value, while the text contains a 
mass of valuable information, well digested 
and arranged. 
Mrs. Moore approaches her subject with the 
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ods. But her book is more than an esthetic 
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of different pieces of ware and other details 
of .a like practical value. She warns her 
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sian metal work in New York, and tells how 
genuine Sheffield plate may be identified. The 
book will be warmly appreciated by collectors 
of these interesting wares, and will undoubt- 
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The Architect and the Law 
ARCHITECT, OWNER AND BUILDER BEFORE 
THE Law. By T. M. Clark. New 
York: The Macmillan Co. 1905. Pp. 
31+387. Price, $3.00. 
It is pleasant to have a second edition of this 
admirable book, for it deals with a number of 
important and complicated subjects of which 
there is very little general information and of 
which the legal information is widely dis- 
tributed and hardly better known. Mr. Clark 
has drawn on both the English and American 
decisions for his material, and divides his sub- 
ject into three general parts: The Architect 
and the Owner, The Builder and the Owner, 
and The Architect and the Builder. Under 
the first head he discusses the architect and the 
owner, the architect’s duties to his employer, 
the architect’s position when the cost exceeds 
the limit, the responsibility of the architect 
for his own work, the architect’s authority as 
an expert, the architect as an agent for the 
owner, the architect’s claim for compensation, 
architects employed on commission, the sick- 
ness or death of the architect, and the owner- 
ship of plans. 
The second part deals with the architect’s 
duties toward the builder, the builder’s duty 
toward the architect, the authority of the 
architect over the builder, and the architect's 
certificate. The third section deals with con- 
tracts of all kinds, the statute of fraud and 
limitation, misrepresentation or mistake, the 
rights of the lowest bidder, the interpretation 
of contracts, how contracts may be modified, 
the abandonment of contracts, completion, ac- 
ceptance, delay and forfeiture, risk and respon- 
sibility, and forms of contract. While not 
every one about to build may take the trouble 
to read through so weighty a book as this, 
there is no doubt that acquaintance with its 
contents could greatly lessen the controversies 
that arise in building. 
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