NOTES AND REVIEWS 
HOUSE AND GARDEN PAPERS 
SERIES I. 
TN this issue of House and Garden ap- 
A pears the introductory paper of the series 
announced on our third cover page; the 
scope and purpose of which are fully there 
set forth. Owing to one of those exigencies 
of the press room, which are often as inexo¬ 
rable as they are unforeseen, the photographic 
illustrations which should accompany this 
article are omitted; but they will duly appear, 
with explanatory text, in a later issue. 
ENGLISH GLASSES 
N informing and attractive handbook is 
“English Table Glass,” by Percy Bate.* 
Short of Hartshorne’s encyclopedic volume 
on “Old English Glasses,” no book speaks 
with the animation and authority of the 
present volume nor is any, within the pur¬ 
chasing power of the average reader, so safe 
and charming a guide. The illustrations 
are from carefully lighted photographs of the 
author’s collection, and would make the 
volume worth acquiring for the library 
shelves, even if the insidious text did not fan 
a new ember upon the collector’s hearth into 
flame. 
The several chapters cover the wine, ale, 
and other drinking glasses of England in 
their several varieties, together with candle¬ 
sticks, decanters, sweetmeat glasses, trailed 
pieces, etc. A fully illustrated chapter on 
frauds and forgeries completes the inter¬ 
esting tale. 
CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN 
E invite the attention of all our readers 
to the exceptional opportunity afforded 
by the correspondence column which will be 
opened in the August number of House 
and Garden. Eull particulars may be 
found in the announcement on our third 
cover page. 
* English Table Glass, by Percy Bate. London; George 
Newnes, Limited. Imported by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New 
York, xiii + 130 pp. Price, $2.50, net. 
r IV) satisfy several inquiries prompted by 
Mr. Vallandigham’s interesting article 
on “Adirondack Camps” in our last issue, 
the author has been good enough to supply 
the following data of the cost of camping 
in the region: 
A family may rent a large and well ap¬ 
pointed camp for the season of six or eight 
weeks at rates varying from $1,000 to $2,500. 
In some parts of the region, however, charm¬ 
ing little cabins may be had for $200 or less, 
and a family may camp, rent free, on public 
land, occupying tents that may be bought 
and pitched at from $25 to $40 each. If 
the camp is on a lake or river there should 
be boats for the use of the family. A sound 
second-hand boat may be had for $30 or 
$40, and sold at the end of the season at half 
the cost or more. No camp should have 
less than two boats. Service is costly unless 
the camp can dispense with a guide, whose 
wages are $3 a day, and can take to the woods 
the servants usually employed at home. A 
family occupying a well-equipped camp on 
the edge of a fashionable region found 
that the table cost about $5 per week for 
each adult, servants included. I here are 
parts of the region, however, where food is 
considerably cheaper, and a large party, 
intending to camp for six or eight weeks, 
can still further reduce its expenses by send¬ 
ing in canned goods and other supplies from 
New York. Those who are willing to camp 
in the simplest fashion upon public lands, 
to dispense with service and to depend for 
food, in part, upon rod and gun and the 
natural wild fruits of the region, principally 
raspberries and blueberries, may reduce the 
cost to four or five dollars weekly for each 
adult. Such camping, however, is not suited 
to the needs of old persons or very young chil¬ 
dren, though it is delightful to sound adults 
who do not revolt from plain fare and a little 
work. Food, service and general administra¬ 
tion of a camp, in which a guide and three other 
servants are employed, will average from $6 
to $9 per week for each adult, servants in¬ 
cluded, and one-half to two-thirds as much for 
each child. Persons intending to camp year 
after year on public lands will find it worth 
while to have a permanent camping outfit. 
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