HOUSE AND GARDEN 
4 
January, 
In all the attempts that have been made in this 
country to establish a weekly publication expressive 
of the lighter side of American life and letters, none 
has so completely won its way to popular favor as 
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Most of the witty, satirical stories of the day 
have their start in its columns. Its color pages each 
week are well worthy of framing. They represent 
the best work of the leading American, English, 
French and German colorists. It is by long odds 
the most brilliantly edited weekly ever launched on 
this side of the water. 
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Department "H.” 
THE STANLEY WORKS 
New Britain Connecticut 
what they did on the plans. If the build¬ 
er is selected with care and is receiving a 
fair price for his work he will be glad to 
make changes and substitutions. 
It is the builder who has taken a con¬ 
tract calling for a class of work with 
which he is not familiar, and who conse¬ 
quently estimated too low, that will try to 
make up his shortage by overcharging for 
extra work. 
The owner will generally find the build¬ 
er a very practical man; a man who is 
exerting his best efforts to comply with 
the architect’s specifications and plans; 
complete his contract to the entire satis¬ 
faction of the owner; establishes a repu¬ 
tation for good work and still have his 
books show a profit. 
Some Indoor and Outdoor Books 
T HE man who loves his garden, loves 
to potter around in it and watch 
his labor grow to burgeoning beauty, is in¬ 
variably interested in books on the garden 
and the plant and animal neighbors that 
inhabit it. For such are several volumes 
issued this fall from the house of Fred¬ 
erick A. Stokes & Co. Two little books 
made to slip into the pocket are best for 
companions on the cross-country tramp: 
“Wild Fruits of the-Countryside,” by F. 
Edward Hulme, a collection of concise 
plant descriptions illustrated with colored 
plates: and “Toadstools and Mushroom 
of the Countryside,” by Edward F. Stop, 
in which, with camera and pen, the author 
bags an interesting game. No less inter¬ 
esting is Mr. Stop’s other volume, “Mess¬ 
mates,” a popular account of what science 
terms Commensalism and Symbiosis—the 
remarkable partnerships habitually set up 
between animals totally unrelated, and 
even between animals and plants. 
That plants do many things that human 
beings do is the subject of Royal Dixon’s 
interesting volume, “The Human Side of 
Plants.” In a scientifically accurate but 
popular style he tells of the plants that go 
to sleep, walk, swim, defend themselves, 
rob, fish, dance, keep servants and build 
airships. The book reads with the vivid¬ 
ness of a romance. 
A genuine contribution to garden litera¬ 
ture is found in Walter P. Wright s beau¬ 
tifully illustrated “Garden Trees and 
Shrubs.” To read this book is to learn 
not alone many new secrets about old va¬ 
rieties, but the whole story of the new 
kinds that have been discovered of late. 
For the dog and pet fancier are two 
volumes of practical instruction: “Dogs, 
Their Selection, Keeping and Breeding,” 
by F. T. Barton: and “Pets and How to 
Keep Them,” by Frank Finn. The latter 
is suitable for the boy who is just enter¬ 
ing upon that time when he takes an in¬ 
terest in the birds and beasts about him. 
For that same lad at a later date—and 
even for his grown-ups—is a bully vol¬ 
ume, “Every Man His Own Mechanic,” a 
simple guide to work in the tool shop. 
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