House and Garden 
A New House and Garden Book 
Country Homes 
and Gardens of 
Moderate Cost 
Edited by CHARLES FRANCIS OSBORNE 
Professor in the Architectural School of the 
Universityjof Pennsylvania 
vith a new subscription to '* Ho 
and Garde 
THE WORK OF THE BEST ARCHITECTS 
This is not a book of stock plans such as are advertised for sale. Each design is the work of an 
architect of established reputation and the photographs were taken after the house was built. Some of 
the contributors bear such well-known names as Cope & Stewardson, Frank Mead, Wilson Eyie, Elmer 
Gray, Charles Barton Keen, William L. Price, Ellicott & Emmart, Frank Miles Day, Grosvenor 
Atterbury, Margaret Greenleaf Willis Polk and W. C. Eagan. 
PRACTICAL CHAPTERS ON HOUSEBUILDING 
The illustrated chapters of this book contain much valuable information for those about to build, for 
those who desire to alter or improve their homes, and for all to whom an attractive and comfortable house 
and garden at moderate expense is a matter of interest. The reader of this book will be able to talk to 
his architect intelligently on matters of style and design, can better judge the possibilities and value of a 
piece of land, can advise his builder, and can select his furnishings and decorations with more than 
ordinary taste, or use those he has to better advantage. And the delights of a garden, big or little, are 
brought nearer his reach. 
200 INTERESTING PLANS AND PICTURES 
The houses illustrated range in cost from $800 to $6000. Floor plans, plans of houses and their 
gardens, exterior and interior photographs and suggestive views of planted lawns and gardens in all their 
luxuriance make this book a constant delight. Suburban homes on limited ground, seashore and moun¬ 
tain cottages, inviting bungalows and inexpensively remodeled farm-houses are some of the types 
presented in plan and picture, with detailed notes explaining the illustrations. “ COUNTRY HOMES 
AND GARDENS OF MODERATE COST ” contains 200 superb half-tone engravings and line- 
plans, with text and descriptive notes, printed on the finest heavy coated paper, tastefully bound in 
substantial cloth. The book measures 9x12 inches, contains 128 pages and weighs about 2 pounds. 
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AN INDIAN POMPEII 
'^^OIHING sadder or more beautiful 
exists in India than the deserted 
city of Fathpur Sikri. There it stands, 
some twenty-three miles from Agra, 
much as it stood three hundred years ago 
when Akbar decreed the stately pleasure- 
house. It was built to commemorate 
the blessing of the holy Salim Chishti, 
the hermit who dwelt among the wild 
beasts in his cave at Sikri, and who had 
foretold that Akbar’s son, born on that 
spot, should live to succeed him on his 
splendid throne. The saint did not 
foresee that the infant would grow up 
into that unmitigated debauchee Je- 
hangir, whose orgies amazed Sir Thomas 
Roe and whose potent liquor caused 
that virtuous ambassador to sneeze 
incontinently, to the delight of the whole 
court. But the heroic toper did not 
defile his father’s palace city, which 
must have been deserted soon after 
its founder’s death; for when William 
Finch visited it in 1610 he found it 
“ruinate, lying like a waste district, and 
very dangerous to pass through at 
night.” Ruinate it has remained ever 
since, desolate and abandoned. No 
later ruler of India has ever dared to 
live in Akbar’s Versailles, just as no 
ruler of India has ever climbed to the 
heights of Akbar’s genius. In the 
empty palaces, the wonderful mosque, 
the sacred tomb, the baths, the lake, 
at every turn we recognize some memory 
of the greatest of Indian Emperors. 
We may even enter his bedroom—the 
Khwabgah , or “Abode of Dreams” 
and see the very screens of beautiful 
stone tracery, the very Persian couplets, 
the identical decoration in gold and 
ultramarine, upon which Akbar feasted 
his eyes during the long sultry after¬ 
noons of the Indian plains. We may 
walk into the houses of Faizi and Abu- 1 - 
Fazl, the laureate and the premier of his 
empire, who sang his glory and chroni¬ 
cled his reign. We may see that strange 
building, the Diwan-i-Khas, with its 
central pillar-throne and odd galleries, 
which some have sought to identify 
with the famous hall where metaphysical 
debates took place every Friday night 
under the Emperor’s personal presi¬ 
dency, and philosopher and theologian, 
orthodox and sceptic, did furious battle 
for their creeds or doubts till they ended, 
long after the “small hour,” by bandy¬ 
ing “pervert” and “atheist,” to the 
disgust of an unwi 
mg witness—the 
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