March, 1909 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
an engaging style, presented in a sumptuous 
dress, and makes a really earnest appeal to the 
people it undertakes to interest. 
PracticaAL Farm Drarnace. A MANvuAL 
FOR FARMER AND STUDENT. By 
Charles Gleason Elliott, C. E. New 
York: John Wiley & Son. Second edi- 
fion. Pp. 15-188: Price, $1.50. 
The first edition of this valuable book ap- 
peared twenty-five years ago; it has now been 
entirely rewritten, with much new matter 
added, and has been modernized in every 
way. The author’s principle appeal is to the 
farmer, and this is very direct and eloquent. 
He aims not only to discuss the value of the 
proper drainage of land, but to tell how it is 
done. In other words, any intelligent person, 
with the proper instruments, and this book as 
a guide, could himself find the necessary levels 
and make the required surveys for his land. 
There is much undrained land lying valueless 
in America, because the mere cost of finding 
out what to do seems too great. Mr. Elliott’s 
book has, of course, its value for the engineer 
and surveyor, but his principal aim has been to 
show how the waste land may be made service- 
able and profitable. His book is an eminently 
practical and useful one, and has distinguish- 
ing merits of brevity and directness. 
THe SMALL Country Piace. By Samuel 
T. Maynard. Philadelphia: J. B. Lip- 
pincott Co. Pp. 320. Price, $1.50 net. 
This is a very comprehensive book, dealing 
with a vast multitude of subjects, and dealing 
with them, for the most part, in a very able 
and helpful manner. It is true the view of the 
cement-concrete house made of hollow bricks is 
a peculiarly offensive structure in appearance, 
and not much can be said for the taste that de- 
termined the selection of several of the other 
houses shown; but in practical matters, in the 
way to do things, in telling how to do them, 
and in practical advice of every sort, Prof. 
Maynard is entirely at home, always sugges- 
tive, often authoritative, and ever welcome. 
This book is, in fact, a true encyclopedia of 
information for the owner of the moderate- 
priced country place. The author has, for 
years, made an intimate study of the needs of 
just such people, and understands them thor- 
oughly. He realizes, as every one must, that 
these are the people who need to know what 
to do and how to do it, and he sets about ad- 
vising and directing them in the most direct 
way. His book is a model of its kind and his 
pages abound in home wisdom of the most val- 
uable sort. 
BACTERIA IN RELATION TO CouUNTRY LIFE. 
By Jacob G. Lipman, Ph. D. New 
York: The Macmillan Co. Pp. 20+486. 
Price, $1.50 net. : 
If this book were to be generally read by 
the farmer and agriculturist, to whom it 
directly appeals, it would do an immense 
amount of good and be immeasurably valu- 
able. Adequately illustrated and printed, and 
sold at a reasonable price, it offers nothing 
formidable save its stoutness, the considerable 
number of its pages, and its title to warn off 
the unwary reader. Yet it is a book of the 
utmost practical value, dealing with some of 
the weightiest of problems of life and agricul- 
ture; a book of practical methods and per- 
meated throughout with a lofty sentiment of 
human betterment through the humble means 
of water and soil betterment. One may not 
easily look forward to the time when books of 
this kind will be in the hands of every farmer, 
but one may naturally wish that such days 
were not far distant. Meanwhile the scien- 
tific agriculturist must do the best he can and 
put all his available information into available 
form. Dr. Lipman has here made a notable 
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