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Interior Decoration. Its Principles and entrusted a share ill tile making of 
Practice. By Frank Alvah Parsons, their home. 
Doubleday, Page & Co. $ 3 . 00 . _ 
Far too many people, unfortu¬ 
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that its practice is 
based upon logical 
and clearly defined 
principles, it will be 
a careful examination 
of the recent volume 
by the president of the 
New York School of 
Fine and Applied 
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for both the amateur 
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The Decoration and Furnishing of Apart¬ 
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Ever since the first 
cave dweller scratched 
rude drawings on the 
walls and roof of his 
primitive lair, interior 
decoration has been a 
subject of deep inter¬ 
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of its manifold phases 
is the specialized 
treatment of city 
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by Mr. Herts in his 
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where hitherto a trail 
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an attentive and in¬ 
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us one of the ephemeral faddish vol- readers from among the yearly in- 
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cally in the bookshops, and nauseate dwellers. The volume is notably 
the reader with their scented superfiu- comprehensive as well as richly sug- 
ities of “perfectly lovely” chintzes gestive and makes a wide appeal, for 
and “quite charming” taffetas or the it covers both the treatment of the 
like. It is in facts rather than in little two-room suite and the spa- 
adjectives that Mr. Parsons deals, cious duplex or triplex, 
and from his facts and examples he 
deduces principles of permanent ap¬ 
plication. This feature gives the 
book a lasting value to the profes¬ 
sional decorator, to the student and 
to tlie decorator’s clients who wish 
to co-operate intelligently with the 
man or woman to whom they have 
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