AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
| A Superb Gift 
| Book 
Historic Houses and Their 
Gardens 
EDITED BY CHARLES FRANCIS OSBORNE 
Assistant Professor of the History of Architecture, University 
of Pennsylvania 
With an introduction by Frank Miles Day, Lecturer on 
Architecture at Harvard University 
HE wealthy and wise have, from time immemorial, set 
their houses in the midst of a garden with grassy lawns, 
clicking pebble walks, splashing water, trees for shade 
and flowers for scent and color. The garden is the open-air 
part of a house. 
Everyone cannot inhabit the house and the garden that his dreams inspire, but in leafing over such a book as 
this he can wander at will upon the turf that others have sown, can glimpse enchanting vistas that the greatly 
fortunate have revealed, can revel in the rooms that centuries of famous family occupancy have hallowed with 
a history of their own. 
** Historic Houses and Their Gardens” affords an intimate picture of places the world over, 
celebrated for their beauty and their associations, It is of extraordinary value because it comprises an 
astonishing diversity of scene. Japan, India, Persia, Mexico, Greece and Ancient Rome have contributed to 
it, with America, England, France, Austria, Spain and modern Italy. 
Writers “‘to the manor born” conduct one through the spacious halls and terraces : The Dowager Countess 
De La Warr, The Honourable Miss Sackville-West, Miss Acland-Hood, P. H. Ditchfield, George Walter 
Dawson, and others whose observation is as keen as their pens are facile. 
Over three hundred exquisite pictures from photographs, water-color sketches and plans, are beautifully 
printed on the extra-coated paper which is used throughout. 
The book is a quarto, 9x12 inches, and contains 272 pages. Bound in Cloth, with gold and ink stamping. 
$6.00 Express Prepaid 
Country Homes and Garden of Moderate Cost 
EDITED BY CHARLES FRANCIS OSBORNE 
@©e book has been prepared to satisfy a constantly growing demand from those who are planning to 
build and lay out their grounds, from those who wish to remodel their houses and those who enjoy 
seeing portrayed successful houses that have been built at a moderate cost. Leading architects, 
interior decorators and landscape gardeners who are leaders in their respective fields were 
asked to contribute. The result is an authoritative book on the whole subject of home 
building, interior decoration and gardening surpassing anything of the kind yet published. 
Country and suburban homes on limited space, on the seashore, in the mountains, 
alluring bungalows and inexpensive remodelled farmhouses are some of the types 
presented in picture and text. 
Plans and Photographs of Houses and Gardens Costing from $800 to $10,000 
Each of the designs is the work of an architect of established reputation, and the 
photographs were taken especially for the book, after the houses were built. 200 
beautiful half-tone engravings form the superb illustrative features. Floor plans of 
homes, plans of gardens, photographs of interiors and exteriors, general views of 
completed homes all combine to render the book intensely interesting and helpful. 
A quarto volume, size 9x12 inches, sumptuously printed on heavy plate paper, attractively bound in green 
book-cloth. $2.00 Express Prepaid 
McBRIDE & WINSTON CO., 6 West 29th Street, New York 
Publishers of House & Garden 
JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED 
CRAFTSMAN HOMES 
By GUSTAV STICKLEY 
A Book for Architects, Builders, Containing practical house plans, 
Homemakers and Housekeepers exteriors and interiors, suggestions 
for gardens, gates and pergolas, 
models for furniture, metal work 
and needlework. ‘The house plans comprise a choice collection of about 
fifty designs of country, suburban and town houses, bungalows, cottages 
and cabins, ranging in cost from $500 to ‘$15,000. They have won high 
recognition as the first fearless expression of an independent national style 
of building, that meet the needs and characteristics of the American people. 
CONTENTS: Craftsman houses and plans, halls and stairways, living-rooms, dining-rooms, 
porches and terraces, the effective use of cobblestones, gates and gateways, gardens, 
exterior features and materials, wall space and color schemes, interior woodwork and 
structural features, choice of woods, floors and how to finish them, treatment of interior 
woodwork, decoration and finishing, home cabinet-making, and metal work, 
SIZES: 8%x1linches. Fine India tint plate paper. Duotone sepia ink. Over 200 half- 
tone engravings of exteriors and interiors. Four full-page color plates and portrait 
sketch. Bound in full linen crash. Price, $2.00 net. Postage, $2.24. 
MUNN © CO., Inc. 361 Broadway, New York 
December, 1909 
and both editor and publisher are to be heartily 
congratulated on the success obtained in this 
very valuable publication. 
THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Boy AT SCHOOL. 
By A. Russell Bond. New York: Munn & 
Co., Inc. Pp. 338. Price, $2.00. 
One of the most interesting and helpful of 
recent books for boys was “The Scientific 
American Boy,” by the accomplished author 
of the present volume, in which was described 
the adventures of a youth of mechanical turn 
of mind with his companions in a vacation 
season. Mr. Bond now carries the story 
further, places his hero in a boarding-school, 
and invites his readers to enjoy his later ad- 
ventures and profit by them as well. 
It is pre-eminently a boy’s book for boys, 
for boys with sound bodies and healthy minds, 
who like to be out of doors and making things 
with their hands—just the kind of boys one 
reads about and would like to have or know, 
but which sometimes seem rather scarce when 
one scans the list of one’s boy acquaintances. 
Mr. Bond has been more fortunate than some 
of us, for his boys are fine young chaps, full of 
life and vigor, and endowed with mechanical 
turns of mind that must have given some of 
their elders pause. But at all events they are 
not prigs, but good, wholesome boys of the 
right sort; and if one does not meet them in 
the streets every day, it is good to know there 
are such young people and to read about them 
in Mr. Bond’s agreeable pages. 
The book is not at all a history of school 
life, but might be scientifically described as 
an essay on surplus energy. It deals not with 
what the boys did in school hours, but what 
they did outside of them. These, of course, 
are the real hours of a boy’s life, the time in 
which he is free and unrestrained, in which 
he seeks to please himself and work off some 
of that boy energy that is sometimes not al- 
ways so appreciated by his elders as it might 
be. 
So the book brims over with good nature 
and ingenuity and with the breath of outdoor 
activity. If the mechanical performances of 
these young fellows seem sometimes a bit 
audacious, we may rest assured with the 
author’s certificate that they never did any- 
thing boys of real earnestness and ingenuity 
could not have accomplished. The careful 
parent may, perhaps, be disposed to pause a 
little at the flying machine, but—read Mr. 
Bond and find what happened. 
The book is agreeably written with a fine 
sympathy for boy life and boy activity. It 
abounds in practical ideas and suggestions, and 
will prove a veritable boon to the parent who 
wishes to interest his boy in the value of think- 
ing and doing. ‘The numerous illustrations 
are extraordinarily helpful and practical. 
CONCRETE POTTERY AND GARDEN FurRNI- 
TURE. By Ralph C. Davidson. New 
York: Munn & Co., Inc. Pp. 196. Price, 
$1.50. 
The publishers’ statement that this is a new 
book on a new subject is very true. Neither 
concrete pottery nor concrete garden furn- 
iture is in itself new; but a book dealing 
with their making by the amateur has not 
heretofore been published, and hence this vol- 
ume amply supports the claim of novelty made 
for it. 
Readers of AMERICAN HOMES AND 
GARDENS have already acquired some famili- 
arity with Mr. Davison’s able guidance in this 
fascinating art, and while the articles he con- 
tributed to these pages have been reproduced 
in this book, they have been given a new form 
and much new and additional matter has been 
added to them. ‘The illustrations have been 
greatly increased in number, and the whole 
given the form of a practical handbook. 
