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House Garden 
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of food is not in the cookery but in its 
service. She hints at this in this wee 
chapter but we rejoice that she did say 
something of it. Her chapter on how 
to prepare Garnishes for meats include 
20 ways, aspics, potatoes, timbales, etc. 
Nor has she slighted the growing 
hoard of vegetarians! The book is de¬ 
lightfully contrived to spread joy among 
these folk too who are either volunta¬ 
rily or involuntarily prevented from eat¬ 
ing “ye gude” red meat. A chapter on 
cereals and macaronis, a chapter on de¬ 
licious salads about which we can say 
no more or get too famished to finish 
this, will win the affection of a multi¬ 
tude. 
The book is excellently printed. In 
the back of it is a nice sheaf of blank 
pages for culinary memorabilia and in 
the front of it directions for the veriest 
beginner in pottery and pannia. What 
more could one desire? E. P. 
“ T T OUSE AND Home”, by Greta 
-TT Gray, A. M., published by J. B. 
Lippincott Company. 
Ihere comes a time for most people 
when they must be practical, when they 
have done with flights of literary or 
romantic fancy. This time is usually 
when they are about to build a house, 
and, indeed, in this great adventure they 
have need of all the practical help avail¬ 
able. 
We recently reviewed, in these pages, 
the most practical building book that 
had ever come to our attention (“The 
Construction of the Small House”, by 
H. Vandervoort Walsh), and are glad 
to add another, though somewhat dif¬ 
ferent one to it. This new book is one 
of Lippincott’s Plome IManuals, with a 
subtitle which describes it as “A IManual 
and Text Book of Practical House Plan¬ 
ning.” 
In part it covers the same ground as 
IMr. Walsh’s book, and in part its scope 
includes some other things which may 
equally well be included in the home 
builder’s realm of knowledge. Mr. 
Wal.di did not attempt to deal with the 
house from “sanitary, economic, social 
and architectural” aspects: his title, 
indeed, confined him fairly closely to 
construction. 
The author of “House and Home”, in 
successive divisions of text and illus¬ 
tration, deals with location, plans, plan¬ 
ning, materials and construction, plumb¬ 
ing, heating, lighting and built-in con¬ 
veniences and labor savers. The subjects 
are all covered in an excellently lucid 
manner, with ver}^ good illustrations of 
technical yet simplified character. The 
information given is complete and well- 
arranged, and should prove of the great¬ 
est possible help to any reader of rea¬ 
sonable intell'gence. 
In order to discuss exterior design the 
author has made a little illustrated ex¬ 
cursion back into “Ancient and Mediae¬ 
val Architecture”, which gave us a 
momentary thought that perhaps it isn’t 
kind to worry people who arc about to 
build a bungalow with the Cathedral 
of Notre Uame, and S. Maria della Sa¬ 
lute, but on second thoughts we remem¬ 
bered that there is not very much of 
this kind of architectural education per 
capita in the United States, and that 
a familiarity, even superficial, with ar¬ 
chitectural history cannot but help gen¬ 
eral appreciation and add to the sum of 
the world’s knowledge. 
Leaving the historic aspect of archi¬ 
tecture, the questions of “interior design 
and arrangement, the grounds and the 
business of building” are discussed, fol¬ 
lowed “by alterations, the farmhouse 
and multiple houses in community 
groups.” Nor does this exhaust the 
scope of the book, for it includes even 
“town planning” and “owning versus 
renting.” 
The fact that each chapter is followed 
by a list of study questions, and that 
the last chapter is one of suggestions to 
teachers in no sense affects the book’s 
value to the lay reader, but makes it 
the only book of its kind which would 
be practically useful in planning and 
giving a study course on home build¬ 
ing. A good bibliography is included, 
and an index. 
In a field in which there are admit¬ 
tedly a great many books which are 
either too technical to be understand¬ 
able by the la 3 'man, or too loosely- and 
amateurishl}' written to afford any help, 
this new manual should get a wide wel¬ 
come and should fill a need which has 
been in continuous existence because of 
the many impractical books on home 
building which have seemed to offer 
help but failed. M. P. 
“'TpHE Fern Lover’s Companion”, by 
A George Henry Tilton. Little, Brown 
and Co. There is hardly another plant 
more complete!}' satisfying than ferns. 
Also its numerous varieties offer an op¬ 
portunity for fascinating study. This 
handbook is designed to stimulate in¬ 
terest in the ferns and to aid the stu¬ 
dent in learning their names and mean¬ 
ing. It tells how to recognize and iden¬ 
tify each family and species and explains 
methods of reproduction, individualities, 
seasons and locations. R. H. P. 
G ardening under glass”, by f. 
F. Rockwell. Published by Double¬ 
day, Page & Co. This is one of the 
most helpful and complete books on 
the greenhouse we have ever seen. Those | 
qualities in a book seem to come always j 
when the author has actually done the ' 
thing himself. And it is so perfectly evi¬ 
dent that Mr. Rockwell has had a good 
' time in practice, from the period of his 
first “sunshine shanty”, that the reader 
is strongly tempted to follow his ex¬ 
ample. In fact, the whole business of 
gardening under glass is made so simple 
and attractive that you are practically 
unable to resist the temptation to try 
it for yourself. R. H. P. 
R edeeming Old homes”, by 
. Amelia Leavitt Hill. Published by 
Henry Holt & Co. 
With building costs in the unstable 
(though mostly rising) uncertainty to 
which we have almost become accustomed 
since the war, more houses have been 
altered or remodeled than ever before. 
To a few adventurous souls who fan¬ 
cied the idea of making over the ruin¬ 
ous old houses on abandoned farms, 
the problem of alterations and trans¬ 
formations has always appealed as being 
rather good fun: a sort of romantic 
lark. Also, ingenuity could be made to 
take the place of a good deal of cash 
outlay, and to produce a finished effect 
which, if it was even fairly well done, 
gave its creators more real satisfaction 
than the impersonal outlay of vast sums 
of money could buy for the owner of 
an expensive “show place.” The alter- 
aticn of an old house brought back 
much of the personal equation that is 
too often lost in modern architecture. 
Some of the more ha.’-dy alterationists 
went so far as to do a considerable por¬ 
tion of the actual work themselves, and 
they revelled in the quaint creations of 
the village blacksmith, and other local 
artificers. 
There has been relatively little avail¬ 
able in book form for the instruction 
or even for the inspiration of those who 
plan to remodel an old house. Photo¬ 
graphs and plans of the houses in their 
original state are often impossible to 
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