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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1906 



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Home Furnishing, Practical and Ar- 

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The Home is the keynote of this journal, 

 and this book will appeal to all our readers. 

 The author's advice is excellent, and we quote 

 from the Preface as follows: " The interior of 

 the home is naturally a reflection of its oc- 

 cupants, and the possibility of achieving satis- 

 fying results has created an ardent desire for 

 adequate knowledge. Even in homes of mod- 

 erate cost an effort to unite beauty and utility 

 has become remarkably apparent, and, for- 

 tunately, artistic surroundings are not de- 

 pendent on large outlays of money. To give 

 practical aid to the aspiring home artist the 

 author has considered the different parts of the 

 house in turn, and suggested the appropriate 

 furnishings and decorations for each." Such 

 is, in brief, the scope of this admirable book, 

 which will appeal to all readers of this mag- 

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Practical Studies. Interior Decoration and 

 Furnishing. By Henrietta P. Keith and 

 Eleanor A. Cummins. Minneapolis: Max 

 L. Keith. 1906. Pp. 186. Paper. 



Apparently there can not well be too many 

 books on interior decoration adapted to meet 

 the wants of the household furnisher, for there 

 are few subjects of which there seems to be 

 less known, and every new book finds, it is to 

 be hoped, a new circle of readers, or impresses 

 afresh the lessons gained taught by other books. 

 The present volume is a well made and well 

 intentioned effort to discuss anew this most 

 perplexing of subjects. The authors approach 

 their topic from the practical standpoint, and 

 have endeavored to give truly helpful advice 

 to the average householder who wants his 

 house to look as beautiful as it can, perhaps 

 without too great expense, and certainly with- 

 out any great offence. The book contains 

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 studied with profit. 



Profitable Stock Feeding. By Howard 

 R. Smith. Lincoln, Neb. : Published by 

 the Author, 1906. Pp. 12 + 413. 



Prof. Smith's book had its inception in a 

 series of lectures prepared for the Nebraska 

 School of Agriculture. These have been en- 

 tirely rewritten and reduced to book form for 

 the present publication. Himself a practical 

 stock feeder, engaged in the business for profit 

 before becoming a college professor, Prof. 

 Smith has unusual qualifications for writing 

 a book of this sort. His own personal ex- 

 perience, his wide correspondence and his 

 teaching duties gave him not only practical 

 knowledge of his subject, but made him 

 familiar with the facts practical feeders most 

 needed. Moreover, he has aimed to condense 

 and present the results of the most important 

 experimental work in feeding carried on in 

 many places, and his book has, therefore, all 

 the qualities of practicability which are nec- 

 essary to give it practical value. 



He divides his subject into eight parts and 

 treats at length of the feeding necessary for 

 milk production, for beef cattle, for sheep, for 

 swine, for farm poultry and for horses. Gen- 

 eral principles are discussed in the opening 

 chapters, and the specialistic topics are treated 

 with all-sufficient fulness. A number of photo- 

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