House and Garden 
THE STRAND MAGAZINE 
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS FOR JURY, 1908. 
ARTISTS’ IDEALS OF BEAUTY 
SEVEN BEAUTIFUL FULL-PAGE DUOTONE ILLUSTRATIONS 
These portraits, selected by well-known figure-painters as their ideals of beauty, 
suggest the conclusion that artists, as much as other men, dift'er in their preferences. 
.Still, taking their selections as a whole, we think most people will agree that it would 
be difficult indeed to find seven types of feminine beauty to excel the loveliness of 
those whose portraits are reproduced in this number. 
REMINISCENCES AND REFLECTIONS 
BY SIR JOHN HARE 
lu this—the third—instalment of his reminiscences. Sir John Hare, the famous English actor, takes 
us throngli one of tlie most interesting periods of his career, and tells how he started in management on 
his own account. The illustrations this month are of more than usual interest. 
PICTURES IN MUSIC 
Do you see pictures in music? When yon hear a Beethoven symphony or a sonata by Schumann, 
do mystic tigures and landscapes float before your eyes ? It is by no means new or uncommon lor a com¬ 
poser to have a distinct picture in his mind when he sets himself to create a work. Few, however, have 
been able to delineate their hallucinations born of music. Mendelssohn, who was no mean draughtsman, 
w;p often asked to do so, but always refused. "‘It is the function of music to hear, not to see,” he once 
said. Nevertheless, it is highly interesting to see music translated in the terms of a sister art, and this is 
what a clever artist, Miss Pamela Colman Smith, has now done, in pictures which are here published for 
the first time. 
SOME MUCH-DISCUSSED PUZZLES 
By Henry E. lindeney 
Much interest has been aroused by the puzzle articles we have lately published. Here is another 
which should provide many an hour’s amusement for both young and old. 
This number is exceptionally strong in 
Dramatic Short Stories 
which include:— 
IN LETTERS OF FIRE .Prom the French of Gaston Leroux 
THE DEAD EYES OF LOVE .By Tom Gallon 
LAWLESS OF PRESIDIO . By C. C. Andrews 
THE ROOD STREET REVOLUTION .By Arthur 31 orri.son 
HER LITTLE WAY .By Anne Warner 
WHY I AM NOT A CRIMINAL 
Pictured by W. HeaMi Kobinsoii 
This series of half a dozen drawings, by the well-known humorous artist, W. Heath Robinson, is 
one of the most amusing features we have ever published. The manner in which he shows that crime is 
no longer wliat it was, and how great a degree of ingenuity is now required in the departments of 
burglary, smuggling, kidnapping, and larceny, must be seen—and laughed over—to be believed. 
3IEN-SERPENTS 
An article describing the remarkable feats of some famous contortionists, illustrated with striking 
photograiih.s of their extraordinary poses. 
W. AV. JACOBS 
provides a feast of humor in another long instalment of his serial story '‘.S.4.1^THAVKN,” which is 
illustrated by that well-known character artist W’LI.Ij UWIiN. 
“3IY AFRICAN JOURNEY” 
By Winston Spencer Clinrehill 
Mr. Churchill—who has lately been appointed President of the Board of Trade and is now a member 
of the British Cabinet—this month describes in bis breezy style his journey through East Africa to the 
Great Lake, as the Victoria Nyanza is called. As usual he illustrates his narrative with a very varied 
selection of photographs. 
THE MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN OF FIRES 
Outbreaks of fire are often most mysterious in their origin. We are frequently confronted with prob¬ 
lems concerning the cause of fires in houses, factories, and fields that are uUerly baffling and insoluble. 
Yet in what simple ways we may be victimized the examples giv'en in this article afford most striking proof. 
THE HOUSE OF ARDEN 
Another chapter of this fascinating story for Children, by E. NESBIT. 
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with only a few immaterial omissions 
the whole of the first and famous chap¬ 
ter of Vitruvius, and the greater part of 
Claude Parrault’s preface to the trans¬ 
lation dedicated to the Grand Monarch. 
How did Mr. Parent show his artistic 
horror and contempt By spluttering 
in a letter to the T imes By going to 
the nearest “pub” ? The enthusiast 
bethought him of Samson’s last pro¬ 
fessional appearance, and then he walked 
up Frognal pushing at the hrick-and- 
plaster capitals of the entrance piers 
of the houses; and these miserable 
objects either fell out and were broken, 
or else shifted out of position. As a 
commentator remarks, “No more im¬ 
pressive rebuke could have been admin¬ 
istered to the taste which selected and the 
workmanship which inserted these curi¬ 
ous parodies of Classical style .—Boston 
Herald. 
A FUNGICIDE 
T)ULLE1 IN 118 , of the Purdue, Ind., 
^ University Station, gives the fol¬ 
lowing formula for the best fungicide 
and directions for preparing it: 
Bordeaux Mixture: This is by 
far the most generally useful fungi¬ 
cide we have. The copper sulphate of 
blue vitriol is the active fungicidal agent, 
while the lime is added to prevent the 
burning of the foliage, which would 
result from a pure copper sulphate solu¬ 
tion. The usual formula is: 
Five pounds copper sulphate. 
Five pounds lime. 
Fifty gallons of water. 
Certain precautions must be observed 
in making Bordeaux, in order to obtain 
the most efficient mixture. The secret 
of success is to put together as dilute 
solutions as possible. The copper sul¬ 
phate may be conveniently made up into 
a stock solution by dissolving it at the 
rate of one pound to one gallon of water. 
The amount needed at any time can 
then be readily obtained by stirring up 
the solution and measuring out as many 
gallons as there are pounds required. 
The blue-stone may be dissolved quickly 
in hot water, or, more slowly, in cold 
water by suspending near the top of the 
water in a burlap over night. Good 
stone lime should be used. Air-slaked 
lime is not satisfactory. If a barrel 
(fifty gallons) of the Bordeaux is to be 
made, it is easy to secure the required 
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