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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
June, 1911 
Can be used as a blind or an awning at will, or pulled np out of sight if desired. Slats 
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town and country houses. Orders should be placed NOW for Summer Delivery. 
‘y Vilson’s Outside Venetians 
Blind Pulled Up 
Wilson’s Blinds have been furnished to the houses of John P. Morgan, H, M, Flagler, A. G, Vanderbilt, Chas. Lanier, Mrs. R, Gambrill, 
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“Willowcraft” Furniture 
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‘“Willowcraft’’ stamp. None other genuine. If your dealer doesn’t carry 
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dealers, illustrated catalogue and price list. 
THE WILLOWCRAFT SHOPS 
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The Scientific American Boy 
By A. RUSSELL BOND 
12mo. 320 Pages. 340 Illustrations. Price, $2.00, Postpaid. 
i is a story of outdoor boy life, suggesting a large num- 
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articles. @ The needs of the boy camper are supplied by the direc- 
tions for making tramping outfits, sleeping bags and tents; also 
such other shelters as tree houses, straw huts, log cabins and caves. 
q The winter diversions include instructions for making six kinds of 
skate sails and eight kinds of snowshoes and skis, besides ice boats, 
scooters, sledges, toboggans and a peculiar Swedish contrivance 
called a ‘‘rennwolf.” @ Among the more instructive subjects cov- 
ered are surveying, wigwagging, heliographing and bridge-building, 
in which six different kinds of bridges, including a simple can- 
tilever bridge, are described. 
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AUTOMOBILE MECHANICIANS’ CATECHISM. 
By Calvin F. Swingle, M.E. Chicago: 
Frederick J. Drake & Co., 1910. 16mo.; 
110 pp. Price, $1.25. 
As the name implies, all the information 
given is conveyed in the form of questions 
and answers. This is a very practical way 
of acquiring knowledge of a subject. Should 
the student desire to test his knowledge 
and his capacity for clearly expressing it, 
he may write his own answers and com- 
pare them with the answers given. On the 
other hand, the index allows of the use of 
the catechism as a “searchlight in trouble- 
finding.” Should the tyro find himself 
stalled on some country road, unable to 
place the trouble, he turns to the index, 
finds ‘“Breakdowns—what to do” and has 
expert advice immediately, in the fewest 
possible words. Inserts, showing the plan 
and elevation of a chassis, with all parts 
numbered and named, add greatly to the 
completeness and utility of the handbook. 
THE MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA. By F. N. 
Guild. Easton, Pa.: The Chemical Pub- 
lishing Company, 1910. 12mo.; 103 pp.; 
illustrated. 
Arizona is notably rich in mineral de- 
posits, and its mountains and canyons have 
been attacked with such enthusiasm that 
the yield of specimens has been proportion- 
ately large and noteworthy. In their mode 
of occurrence, and in the beauty and va- 
riety of the crystallizations, the minerals 
found in this part of the country present 
unusual features. Vanadium, tungsten, and 
molybdenum are not uncommon, and the 
chemical and geological conditions which 
brought them into being well repay inves- 
tigation. The recent discoveries of cor- 
onadite, morencite and arizonite are chron- 
icled, and the compositions of these de- 
posits are given. 
Motion Picture HANpzook. 
Richardson. New York: The Moving 
Picture World, 1910. 12mo.; 176 pp.; 
illustrated. Price, $1.50. 
In this age of the motion pictures, such a 
handbook as this will not lack for readers. 
It tells everything which the would-be op- 
erator ought to know, and some things 
which the full-fledged ‘operator should be 
familiar with, but, judging from results, is 
not. The source of the light, the wiring, 
resistance devices, lenses, carbons, the film, 
the various makes of projectors, all these 
are subjects of vital importance in the 
skillful manipulation of the motion picture 
machine. Managers may also turn these 
pages with benefit, not only because man- 
agers should know something of the art on 
which their business depends, but also be- 
cause the final chapter appeals especially to 
them, its heads being the selection of a 
theatre location, employees, advertising, 
film service, tickets and vaudeville. 
By F. Ee 
Success IN MARKET GARDENING. A New 
Vegetable Growers’ Manual. By Her- 
bert Rawson. New York: Double- 
day, Page & Co., 1910. 12 mo.; 271 pp.; 
illustrated. Price, $1.10 net. 
This is a revision and amplification of a 
book of the same title by the late W. W. 
Rawson, father of the present author. It 
covers market gardening methods in a gen- 
eral way, from the choice of a location and 
