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House & Garden 
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Turn Your 
Kitchen 
Drudgery 
Into a Joy 
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Your kitchen work exhausts you most because 
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with a mixture of cooking odors—made oppress 
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A dining room 
in the modern 
style. From 
The Practical 
Book of Inte¬ 
rior Decora¬ 
tion 
A Row of House & Garden Books 
(Continued from page 74) 
decoration advice published in the mag¬ 
azine during the past five years. 
The United States has now many ar¬ 
chitectural centers of which it can be 
justly proud. It has also a style of 
architecture which is a native product 
and which stands most typically for 
this country. That style is Colonial and 
its center is Salem, Mass. Xine out of 
every ten Colonial houses erected in 
America can be traced back to the work 
of those old New England carpenters 
and designers who made Salem an ar¬ 
chitectural glory and established a pre¬ 
cedent for a livable and lasting archi¬ 
tectural style. 
In this volume, “The Colonial Archi¬ 
tecture of Salem,” by Frank Cousins 
and Phil M. Riley, each type of house 
is explained and pictured—the gable 
and peaked-roof house of the earliest 
days, the lean-to house, the gambrel- 
roof, the square, three-story wood and 
brick houses. In addition, the archi¬ 
tectural detail is explained and pictured 
at length — doorways and porches, 
windows and window frames, interior 
wood finish, halls and stairways, and 
mantels and chimney pieces. The last 
two chapters consider the old public 
buildings of Salem and the new archi¬ 
tecture which has sprung up in place of 
that which was destroyed in the fire of 
1914. Fortunately these new buildings 
have followed the original precedents 
of the local historic designs. 
The book is pleasantly written, full 
of instruction and historic fact, ample 
for the student of architectural design 
and invaluable to those who consider 
the building of a Colonial house. One 
hundred and twenty-seven halftone 
plates illustrate the book. It is a 
valuable addition to the literature of 
Colonial architecture. 
“Old New England Doorways” by 
Albert G. Robinson, is a specialized 
study of one of the important archi¬ 
tectural details for which New England 
is justly famous. The old carpenter-ar¬ 
chitect believed that the doorway made 
the house, and upon its design and con¬ 
struction he expended much affection, 
time and energy. Consequently the 
doors of Salem, Hadley, Billerica, Deer¬ 
field, Winsted, New Haven, Guilford, 
Middletown and other Massachusetts 
and Connecticut towns remain for fu¬ 
ture generations the ideal in measure¬ 
ment and detail. The first part of the 
book contains a charming apprecia¬ 
tion of Colonial doors in general; the 
second part is a large collection showing 
several score doorways taken close up 
and showing details that the lover of the 
Colonial, the architect and the layman 
who plans to build will find invaluable. 
Among the other new architectural 
volumes on House & Garden’s book¬ 
shelf are three from England—a new 
and enlarged edition of Lawrence 
Weaver’s valuable work on cottages, 
called, “The Country Life Book of Cot¬ 
tages”; a second series of the same au¬ 
thor's “Small Country Houses of To¬ 
day”; a fourth and enlarged edition 
of Miss Jekyll’s “Colour Schemes for 
The Flower Garden”; and a sixth and 
enlarged edition of Gordon Allen’s pop¬ 
ular handbook, “The Cheap Cottage 
and Small Houses—A Manual of Eco¬ 
nomical Building.” Although written 
for and about English houses and gar¬ 
dens, each of these volumes contains 
excellent suggestions and valuable de¬ 
signs that can be adapted to American 
sites. Excellent illustrations and plans 
are shown in each. 
First of the garden books this year, 
one we little expect to be surpassed, is 
by Gardner Teall, antique collector in 
general for House & Garden. It is 
called “A Little Garden the Year 
Round.” Mr. Teall has been editor of 
House & Garden and “American Homes 
& Gardens,” and contributed freely to 
their pages. His writings are known to 
a vast company of readers. And while 
he wields a facile pen on many subjects, 
whatever he writes has the authority, 
the practical help and the kindly in¬ 
spiration which are the elements of his 
personality. 
So here he has written of gardens—of 
their making and maintenance, of dah¬ 
lias and cosmos, peonies, gladioli, bulbs, 
hyacinths, the Persian garden, the vege¬ 
table garden, the salad garden, vines, 
clematis, shrubs, evergreens, gardens 
and architecture, sundial mottoes and 
finally a monthly explanation of the 
work to do in the garden. 
Now the author knows (as know all 
true gardeners) that half of gardens are 
made by dreaming and the other half by 
sweating. The one is no good without 
the other. Garden work is mere drudg¬ 
ery without the inspiration of flowers 
and the cleansing touch of the soil; in¬ 
spiration is futile and flat unless one 
can crystallize it in budding branch and 
green sward. So he has compounded 
his book of these two elements—the 
practical and the inspirational. And he 
has made a book that will be a valuable 
vade mecuni for the beginner and a 
cherished friend to those who know 
how to make and therefore love gar¬ 
dens. 
The Practical Book of Interior Dec¬ 
oration. By Harold Donaldson Eber- 
lein. Abbot McClure and Edward S. 
Holloway. J. L. Lippincott Co. $7.50 
{Continued on page 78) 
