XXVI 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1907 



It is peculiarly fitting that the originators of the piano-player and the 

 genius and skill responsible for its continuous development and improve- 

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In every composition there runs a Vein of melody called the " air, " frequently lying wholly 

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 It is the province of the MELODANT automatically to pick out and accent this melody, 

 giving to each note its proper value as previously determined in an authentic interpretation. 

 The musical value of this new device is inestimable and when coupled with personal manipulation of the 

 Melody Buttons, permitting individual accentuation of notes or runs at will, and with the Phrasing Lever, 

 mastering time, and the Diaphragm Pneumatics, giving the Human Touch of the ANGELUS, you have 

 supremely under your own control every known device contributing to a musically correct performance 

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The ANGELUS in cabinet form, the KNABE-ANGELUS PIANO, the 

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This means that distinct progress in these lines 

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Mr. Baker's book is a picture book pure 

 and simple, the single few lines of text within 

 it consisting of a general introduction of Mr. 

 Donn Barber, an architect whose own work 

 has worthy place in this collection of views. 

 The illustrations, on the whole, have been 

 well chosen, and represent some of the more 

 important of recent contributions to the art 

 of the country house by our most conspicuous 

 architects. The absence of descriptive text 

 leaves, of course, something to be desired, for 

 even a complete group of photographs fails to 

 tell all that may be told of a house and its fur- 

 nisliings. But this lack is somewhat com- 

 pensated for by the insertion of numerous 

 plans, which complete the architectural de- 

 scriptions of the places they accompany, giv- 

 ing, as they do, in a graphic way, helpful in- 

 formation concerning areas and dispositions of 

 interior spaces. The plans of gardens, of which 

 a number are included likewise, are also help- 

 ful, and materially increase the usefulness of 

 the book. 



The subjects illustrated are sufficiently 

 numerous to make the book representative in a 

 very complete sense. Houses near Philadel- 

 phia, in Connecticut, in New Jersey, Massa- 

 chusetts, and other States, not forgetting 

 California, make a tolerably fair geographical 

 covering. Old houses in Philadelphia and the 

 South also come in for illustration, and their 

 quaint old gardens form some of the most pic- 

 turesque of the illustrations. 



It is, therefore, a volume that the lover of 

 gardens and of houses will eagerly welcome as 

 a notable addition to the really few competent 

 books on this subject. There is a world of 

 suggestiveness and help in these pictures, and 

 a world of interest and of charm. The most 

 important lesson it teaches is that in many 

 parts of America large sums of money are 

 being expended on gardens, some of large size, 

 and all of them of real and penetrating beauty. 



Modern Plumbing Illustrated. By R. 

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The purpose of this work is to demonstrate 

 in the most practical manner the best modern 

 practice in plumbing and water supply. There 

 is an abundance of useful information in ref- 

 erence to the kinds of plumbing materials and 

 fixtures and the installation of these for the 

 modern cottage, or the more pretentious 

 house, apartment house, hotel and office build- 

 ing. 



The purpose of this work is to demonstrate 

 liberal scale drawings, which cover almost 

 every imaginable condition likely to come be- 

 fore the plumber, architect and sanitary engi- 

 neer. The book will be found valuable to 

 the plumber in his actual work, giving special 

 details as to size and weight of pipes required 

 under different conditions. To the architect 

 it will be found suggestive and will aid in pre- 

 paring plans and directing and superintending 

 work ; to the owner in aiding him to secure 

 the best and simplest systems for his building; 

 to the plumber inspector the many practical 

 features it presents will remind him of the 

 methods to be pursued to secure safe and 

 healthful sanitary conditions, and to the plumb- 

 ers, practical methods of executing the work. 



The book presents, in a word, the latest 

 and best modern practice, and should be in 

 the hands of every architect, sanitary engi- 

 neer and plumber who wishes to keep him- 

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 construction. 



