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A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK 
for Decorators, Paperhangers, Archi- 
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with many half-tone and other illus- 
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By ARTHUR SEYMOUR JENNINGS 
EXTRACT FROM PREFACE 
HE author has endeavored to include 
characteristic designs in vogue to- 
day, and to give reliable information 
as to the choice of wall papers as well as 
to describe the practical methods of ap- 
plying them. In dealing with matters 
concerning decoration there is always the 
danger of leaning too much toward an 
ideal and of overlooking the precten Te- 
quirements of commercial life. The au- 
thor hopes that he has been successful in 
avoiding this fault, and that his book will 
be regarded as both practical and useful. 
One Large 8vo Volume, Cloth. $2 
MUNN & CO., Inc., 361 Broadway, N. Y. 
and valuable experience and is an authority 
on the subject of which he writes. In this 
volume it has been the author’s plan to 
treat rather of general truths and principles 
than mere details of practice. As its title 
would lead one to expect, such fruits as the 
strawberry and the cranberry have been 
omitted. The domestication of the bush- 
fruits being one of the more recent develop- 
ments of American horticulture, the sub- 
ject is of especial interest to all who con- 
cern themselves with fruit raising. The 
opening chapter is taken up with general 
considerations and the succeeding chapters 
are divided into sections, the raspberry, 
blackberry, dewberry, miscellaneous bram- 
bles and insects, and diseases affecting all 
these fruits, together with their botany, 
come under a _ section entitled “The 
Brambles.”’ In the third part, The Groselles, 
we find a discussion of currants, goose- 
berries, their varieties, insects, and diseases 
injurious to them, and the botany of gro- 
selles. In the fourth part of Professor 
Card’s book other species of bush-fruits are 
considered, while the appendix is taken up 
with a valuable bibliography of American 
works on the subject. 
MorHER CAREY'S CHICKENS, by Kate 
Douglas Wiggin. Boston and New York: 
Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1911. Cloth, 
12mo. Illustrated, 355 pages. Price, 
$1.25 net. 
This delightful story by Mrs. Wiggin 
takes its name from Charles Kingsley’s 
“Water Babies,’ wherein one finds writ- 
ten: “By and by there came along a flock of 
petrels, who are Mother Carey’s own chick- 
ens. . . ... They flitted along elikema 
flock of swallows, hopping and skipping 
from wave to wave, lifting their little feet 
behind them so daintily that Tom fell in 
love with them at once.” Mrs. Wiggin is 
one of our writers so well-beloved, and has 
such a mastery in her particular field of 
fiction that one does not wish to spoil the 
reader’s delight in the present volume by 
giving him an inkling of the pleasure he is 
sure to find in reading it. 
How To Grow VEGETABLES AND GARDEN 
Heres, by Allen French. New York: 
The Macmillan Company, 1911. Cloth, 
12mo. Profusely illustrated, 312 pages. 
Price, $1.75 net. 
This book gives complete directions for 
growing of vegetables cultivatable in the 
climate of the northern United States, be- 
sides a description of each plant, its habit, 
value and use. The book also contains de- 
tailed agricultural directions, covering soils, 
planting distance, times for sowing, thin- 
ning and transplanting and picking, winter 
productions, storage and management of 
diseases and pests. Mr. French’s book is 
intended to be a supplement to the more 
complete treatises upon the general sub- 
ject of vegetable gardening, giving much 
that they omit, and purposely omitting 
much that they include. For the home 
gardener the book is invaluable as one of 
reference in all matters pertaining to vege- 
table gardens. 
THE Horse, by Isaac Phillips Roberts. New 
York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. 
Cloth, 12mo. Illustrated, 401 pages. 
Price, $1.50 net. 
This volume is one in the Rural Science 
Series, and its author is one of our best- 
known writers on agricultural subjects. His 
volume on “Fertility of the Land” and his 
work on “The Farmstead” being well 
known and authoritative. Prof. Roberts is 
Emeritus Professor of Agriculture at Cor- 
nell University. : 
