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On House Garden’s Book Shelf 
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venture, and Mr. White goes far in 
the way of helping them. After all, in 
building a house, or a business or any¬ 
thing else, it is an American ideal to 
build a success, and an American crav¬ 
ing to know “how” to do it. Thus, 
beneath the roof of the humblest 
bungalow, as between the covers of 
Mr. White’s book, dwell the elements 
of great issues. How to do the thing, 
and how to do it right—those are es¬ 
sentials beside which all else is trivial. 
A saving of time and money is repre¬ 
sented by avoiding mistakes and pit- 
falls by the way, and Mr. White warns 
of these, while giving plain, direct ad¬ 
vice on right procedure. The Bunga¬ 
low Book is duly recommended to 
everyone whose building problem con¬ 
cerns itself with this popular tvpe of 
dwelling. 
T HE Decoration and Renovation 
of the Home, by Arthur Sey¬ 
mour Jennings, published by Spon '& 
Chamberlain. A house without color is 
unthinkable. Even when a room is bad 
architecturally, it can be helped to a 
great extent by a judicious use of color. 
And in the same manner furniture ugly 
in line can be made fairly presentable 
with a few coats of paint or enamel 
in some beguiling shade. 
The object of this book is first of all 
to provide color schemes for rooms of 
all kinds. In this connection there are 
chapters devoted to the theory of color 
and its application, tables of colors, 
what colors combine well together and 
such interesting subjects as how to 
decorate a dark room, color and its 
effect on health and the use of gold 
in decoration. Colored plates of wall 
finishes are shown in this section nearly 
all prepared with the actual material, 
washable water paint, flat oil paint and 
flat enamel. All these finishes have 
been applied to paper which has then 
been cut up and pasted on the pages, 
so the reader can see the actual texture 
as well as the color of the wall finish 
in question. 
But the selection of appropriate and 
unusual color combinations for a house, 
although of the utmost importance, is 
but a small part of the problem of 
painting and decorating. Two thirds 
of the book are devoted to the reno¬ 
vation of the house and include such 
subjects as cleaning and repainting 
woodwork and furniture, whitewash¬ 
ing and paperhanging, the variety of 
paint finishes for walls and how to 
apply them, and the staining and 
finishing of floors. Practically every 
problem that confronts anyone plan¬ 
ning to thoroughly redecorate an old 
house is dealt with in detail in this 
book, even to the method of renovat¬ 
ing an old bathtub. 
In addition there is a chapter on 
period furniture with suggestions for 
color schemes and mural decorations. 
This chapter is written by Herbert E. 
Birstead, editor of the “Furniture Rec¬ 
ord” and contains much valuable in¬ 
formation, stated in a clear, concise 
manner. There are sketches of a Wil¬ 
liam and Mary drawing room, a 
Chippendale dining room, a Hepple- 
white bedroom, an Adam drawing room, 
and a Georgian drawing room and 
dining room. These ought to prove 
helpful to anyone desiring to furnish 
in any of these periods. In contrast 
to much that has been written on the 
subject of decoration, this book does 
not generalize but gives practical, con¬ 
cise information on all branches of 
house painting and decoration. Any¬ 
one planning‘to renovate an old house 
will get much practical information 
from its pages as well as ideas for 
new color combinations for rooms. 
W ALL Paper, Its History, Design 
and Use, by Phyllis Ackerman, 
Ph. D., published by Frederick A. 
Stokes Company. After a long spell of 
plain painted or paneled walls in living 
rooms it is good to have the variety 
and interest of wall papers again. This 
does not mean that every room should 
have papered walls but it does mean 
that unusual effects can be obtained 
with the use of wall paper and rooms 
that in the beginning are merely ordi¬ 
nary can be made really distinctive 
when some effective and suitable paper 
is used as a background. 
This book is of special interest at 
this time owing to the revival of in¬ 
terest in all forms of wall coverings. 
It tells of the historical development 
of wall paper starting with the earliest 
manufacture of block-printed papers in 
Holland through the flock papers of 
England, the papers imported from 
China painted in gay designs, to the 
great period of wall paper manufac¬ 
ture, the 18th and the early part of the 
19th Century in France. 
One of the most interesting chapters 
is the one devoted to wall papers for 
early American interiors. In view of 
the interest at present in this form of 
decoration, these papers ought to have 
a wide appeal. For those seeking a 
more modern form of decoration there 
are pages devoted to modernist wall 
paper. In addition there are suggestions 
for papers for period rooms—Spanish 
and Italian interiors, English rooms of 
the 17th and 18th Centuries and those 
furnished in the Louis XV and XVI 
manner, for interiors done in the Di- 
rectoire and Empire styles, and finally 
suggestions for papers for kitchens. 
There is a practical chapter telling of 
the mechanical processes of the manu¬ 
facture of wall paper and interesting 
pages dealing with the problems of de¬ 
sign, color and texture. 
While there is much in this book 
that is technical and not likely to in¬ 
terest the average reader, so much gen¬ 
uine information is packed into the 
pages that it cannot help but appeal to 
the woman contemplating doing over 
her house as well as to the person 
merely interested in wall paper for its 
own sake. 
In addition it is profusely illustrated, 
the pictures showing many types of 
paper as well as interiors with papered 
walls. 
F REDERICK Law Olmsted, Land¬ 
scape Architect, by Frederick 
Law Olmsted, Jr., and Theodora Kim¬ 
ball. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 
The first volume of the life and works 
of the elder Olmsted, published in the 
centennial year (1922) of his birth, sets 
the background for his professional 
career, especially the creation of Cen¬ 
tral Park, to which it is planned to de¬ 
vote the second volume. It shows the 
man to have been a profound lover of 
landscapes, with a genius for transmit¬ 
ting their beauties to parks and places, 
where they might be intensely used and 
enjoyed. He had a singularly sympa¬ 
thetic touch, a retentive memory and 
clean-cut method of thought, so that 
his designs which covered great areas 
of ground, as well as his plans for 
smaller schemes, always made a splen¬ 
did compromise between those two 
elements of landscape architecture 
sometimes designated as “art” and 1 
“nature.” 
His training was received largely' 
through self study and observation.. 
(Continued on page 144.\ 
