xviii AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS December, 1909 
HH Jn. Stable Comforts 
It is a noticeable fact that live stock 
shrinks in weight and grows poor during 
cold weather; cows especially fall off 
more than one half in their milk; this 
is largely due to insufficient water. 
While there may be water enough, 
at some _ half-frozen spring or 
brook, out in the yard or pasture, 
at which, every morning, if he 
thinks of it, the farmhand breaks 
the ice, yet the effort to reach it 
on cold days and in deep snow 
is so great that horses and cattle 
will frequently go half dry for 
days together. For this reason 
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be practical, but which is practical from cover 
to cover. It is a collection of ideas and meth- 
ods, of ways to do things, of what to do and 
how to do it as proposed, tried out and tested 
by resourceful men, both amateur and profes- 
sional. It contains, in short, upwards of a 
thousand ingenious “kinks,” ideas and hints, 
useful to the household, attractive to the 
mechanic and interesting to every one who 
loves to tinker and make articles of use and 
value, or in whom the spirit of experimenta- 
tion is inbred. 
Unlike many books of this kind, however, 
this is no collection of scientific experiments. 
In fact, it is not an experimental book at all, 
but a treatise of useful things. It is not con- 
cerned with theory, but with fact. It deals 
not with what will give curious results, but 
with achievements of real value and _ utility. 
And this it does in the most direct way possible. 
The descriptions of methods are concise and 
clear, and at every point they are supplemented 
with drawings and diagrams, many of which 
are in the form of working drawings that show, 
in a very precise and definite way, just what 
to do and how to do it. There are 370 such 
illustrations in the book, very clearly drawn 
and lettered, and illustrations that illustrate 
in the best sense of the word. 
The general plan and scope of the book is 
well expressed in its title. It is very literally 
the handy man’s workshop and laboratory. It 
does not undertake to cover the whole realm 
of the mechanics of the shop and factory, of 
the home and household, but it does offer it- 
self as the guide to the handy man in these 
places. Its value is, therefore, very distinct 
and very wide. It appeals, therefore, to a 
very large class of readers and workers. ‘The 
mechanic and the professional man may 
alike find help and suggestion in its pages; 
the householder may here learn of a multi- 
tude of things both convenient and helpful; 
the amateur craftsman will find enough to 
keep him busy for many a long day; the 
sportsman is not forgotten, and so very new a 
device as the construction of toy flying ma- 
chines is treated at length. 
Mr. Bond is to be heartily congratulated on 
the admirable and thorough way in which he 
has performed his task of selection and editing. 
The origin of the book is the result of a depart- 
ment established some time ago in the “Scien- 
tific American,” devoted to the interests of the 
“Handy Man.” A_ flood of suggestions 
poured in from a multitude of sources, and the 
best of these have been reproduced in the 
present volume. It is, however, in no sense a 
reprint from the “Scientific American,” since 
much of its contents is now printed tor the 
first time. 
Mr. Bond has devised a book that will very 
successfully appeal to a very wide circle. ‘The 
amateur workman is attracted by the opening 
chapter on fitting up a workshop. Beth he 
and the professional mechanic will find a host 
of suggestions on the greatest diversity of 
topics in the next chapter on Shop Kinks. 
Both, again, will be interested in the very 
valuable chapter on the soldering of metals 
and the preparation of solders and soldering 
agents. Here is a long list of formulas for 
solders, of tried and tested accuracy. ‘The 
professional mechanic is especially appealed to 
in the fourth chapter on the “Handy Man in 
the Factory,” while still another class of read- 
ers will be interested in the fifth chapter on 
the ‘Experimental Laboratory.” Electricity is 
very fully treated in the sixth chapter, and the 
householder will find a wealth of suggestions 
in the numerous devices described in the 
seventh. ‘The sportsman will be helped with 
the hints of the eighth chapter, while tthe 
final chapter on flying machines is of the great- 
est possible present-day interest.. It is, in 
short, a book of the widest general interest, 
