November, 1911 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS xv 
ADVENTURES IN HomMe-MaAkinG, by Robert 
and Elizabeth Shackleton. New York: 
John Lane Company, 1910. Cloth, 12mo. 
Illustrated, 350 pages. Price, $1.75 net. 
The authors of this volume are well- 
known writers on the subjects connected 
with the home and its decoration, and a 
perusal of its pages will prove a delight to 
every homemaker. The arraugement of 
the well illustrated chapters is excellent, be- 
ginning with the one on the Finding of a 
Home, and continuing through the Plan- 
ing, the Library, the Fireplace, the Parlor, 
Dining-Room, Halls, Bedrooms, Guest- 
room, From Kitchen to Garret, Porch and 
Formal Garden, the Lawn, Spring-House 
and Pool, and taking up the subject of the 
Self-Supporting Features of a Country 
Home, the Picturesque Possibilities of the 
Barnyard, the Alterations of the Side of 
the House, Making a Terraced Front with 
White Columns, in separate chapters. All 
the illustrations are full-page plates in half- 
tone reproductions from photographs, the 
keynote of all the forms being that of good 
taste. 
THe ConTRAcToRS’ AND BuiLpers’ Hanp- 
BooK, by William Arthur. New York: 
David Williams Company, 1911. Flex- 
ible cloth, 16mo. 378 pages. Price, $1.50 
net. 
This very useful handbook is divided into 
three sections, the first containing nineteen 
chapters discussing the Contractor as a 
Business Man, dealing with Reading Plans 
and Specifications, the Preparation of Esti- 
mates, Nature of Contracts, Buying Ma- 
terial, Builders’ Law, etc.; the Contractor 
as a Constructor—eight chapters on Weights, 
Measures and Their Use; Foundations ; 
Superstructures; Concrete Forms and 
Work, etc.; and the Contractor as a Tax- 
payer—seven chapters on Fire Loss; Where 
to Locate; The Ideal Education for the 
General Contractor; A Little Library; Big 
Contracts, ete. 
FloME VEGETABLE GARDENING, by F. F. 
Rockwell. Philadelphia: The John C. 
Winston Company, 1911. Cloth, 16mo. 
Illustrated, 262 pages. Price, $1.00. 
This little book will be of interest to 
anyone with whom the home vegetable gar- 
den is a hobby It contains many helpful 
suggestions, well arranged and clearly pre- 
sented. One is glad to note that this volume 
is the result of personal experience upon 
the part of the writer, and not merely a 
compilation from generally known facts. If 
it is not quite a complete guide, it is surely a 
very useful one, and may be recommended 
to the home library. 
SOILS AND FERTILIZERS, by Harry Snyder. 
New York: The Macmillan Company, 
1911. Cloth, 12mo. 350 pages. Price, 
$1.25 net. 
This is the third edition of Prof. Snyder’s 
book. The author is Professor of Agricul- 
tural Chemistry and Soils in the University 
of Minnesota. It has been his aim to pre- 
sent in condensed form the principles of the 
various sciences, particularly chemistry, 
which have a bearing upon the economic 
production of crops and the conservation 
of the soil’s fertility. The work as here 
presented includes all the topics and the lab- 
ratory experiments relating to soils, as out- 
lined by the Committee on Methods of 
Teaching Agriculture, of the Association of 
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 
tions. 
Tue Pruninc Book, by L. H. Bailey. New 
York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 
Cloth, 12mo. Profusely illustrated, 545 
pages. Price, $1.50 net. 
One welcomes Prof. Bailey’s Pruning 
Book in its twelfth edition to the garden 
library. The first part of the book con- 
cerns itself with the fundamentals of prun- 
ing, philosophy of pruning, the fruit bud, 
the healing of wounds and the principles of 
pruning. The second part is concerned with 
the incidentals, such as specific advice, meth- 
ods of training, sketch of American grape 
training, the various modes of American 
grape training, vinifera grape training (Cal- 
ifornia practice). There is not a_ better 
handbook to be had on the subject of the 
pruning and training of plants as applied to 
American conditions, and every grower, 
large and small, should possess himself of a 
copy. of this work. 
PAPER-BAG Cookery, by Nicholas Soyer. 
New York: Sturgis and Walton Com- 
panyerloiie Clothe emo, 9 130) pages. 
Price, $1.00 net. 
Paper-bag cookery has made so great a 
furor since its introduction by Mr. Soyer’s 
system into this country that this hand- 
book well supplies the extended demand. Its 
author, late chef of Brooks’s Club, London, 
does not claim for the paper-bag system of 
cookery that it can cook everything. He 
makes it plain that tea must still be made in 
a teapot, and the difficulties in respect to 
soups have not yet been overcome. In fact, 
he honestly opens his little book with a list 
of other dishes to be avoided: omelets. 
scrambled eggs, jam, Scotch kale, beans, 
cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, artichokes, 
macaroni, or kindred Italian pastes. Vir- 
ginia Terhune Van de Water, Marion Har 
land’s daughter, has written an introduction 
to Mr. Soyer’s book, in which she says: 
“When this method is once understood it 
will be eagerly adopted by housewives and 
cooks all over the country. It is, moreover, 
so simple that it can be easily learned by 
the veriest tyro in the culinary art.” 
Farm Pouttry, by George C. Watson. 
New York: The Macmillan Company, 
1910. Cloth, 8vo. Mlustrated, 341 pages. 
Price, $1.25 net. 
The author of this popular sketch of do- 
mestic fowls for the farmer and the ama- 
teur is Professor of Agriculture in the 
Pennsylvania State College, and knows his 
subject thoroughly. It will be found of in- 
terest not only to the professional poultry- 
raiser, but likewise to the amateur. Its 
sixteen chapters go thoroughly into the 
various breeds—egg breeds, meat breeds, 
and fancy breeds—of various fowls. The 
sixth and seventh chapters concern them- 
selves with a résumé of the most scientific 
ideas in building construction for poultry 
yards. There is also a chapter on various 
diseases and enemies in the poultry-yard, 
and an especially valuable chapter on pre- 
paring and marketing poultry products, with 
full directions for dressing, packing and 
shipping, shipping the live poultry, handling, 
shipping and preserving eggs. This is one 
of the most important volumes in the Rural 
Science Series, edited by Prof. L. H. Bailey, 
of Cornell. 
Busu-Fruits, by Fred W. Card. New 
York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 
Cloth, 12mo. 537 pages. Price, $1.50 net. 
The volume under review is the fifth 
edition by an author who is Professor of 
Horticulture in the Rhode Island College of 
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and Horti- 
culturist to the Experiment Station, and 
was formerly Professor of Horticulture in 
the University of Nebraska, has had a wide 
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