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THE ENTRANCE FRONT — Estate of E. C. Knight, Jr., Esq., Newport, Rhode Island 78 



Monthly Comment 80 



Notable American Homes — The House of E. C. Knight, Jr., Esq., Newport, Rhode Island. 



By Barr Fence 8 I 



Some Modern Concrete Country Houses By Francis Durando Nichols 85 



The Automobile and the Country House By Paul Thurston 95 



Helps to Home Building: The Value of Architectural Study to the Layman 98 



Training the Cavalry of the United States By Benjamin Winslow 99 



American Reforestation By J. Chandler-French 103 



The Country Home and the Country Life 105 



Simmer Camps By Elizabeth F. Gehhard 106 



A Prix ail Arboretum at Topsfield. Massachusetts By Mary //. Northend 1 10 



Lead Garden Statuary By Laurence Weaver, F.S.A. 1 14 



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