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BOOKS

Two books for the Boy and Girl who
like to do things. Are you one of them?

MARY’S GARDEN
and How It Grew

By FRANCES DUNCAN

With many drawings throughout the text.

It is evidently the design of the author of this charming book to lure little girls into delving in the brown earth, raising flowers, healthy appetites, and rosy cheeks.

This volume will prove invaluable to older people also, because Miss Duncan takes nothing for granted in the matter of horticultural knowledge and gives all those little details which amateur gardeners so sadly need.</div<

“Mary's” garden experience starts in late December, and runs through the whole twelve months. Send for circular showing Mary’s calendar.

“The book is admirable, and I think it could hardly be better. The personality you have thrown over it all is a very great charm. All the children will want to know little Mary.”

S. B. PARSONS, the Veteran Horticulturist.

“It is doubtful if a year’s work in the garden has ever been more delightfully, interestingly, and instructively told than in ‘Mary’s Garden and How It Grew.’ The author is evidently on the best terms with the plants of which she writes, and speaks of them as friends. That human interest is one of the charms of the book. The careful, tender solicitude for the plants, so beautifully and thoughtfully expressed, springs from an intimate knowledge of their needs.”— PATRICK O’MARA, Peter Henderson’s well-known Horticultural Expert.

“The idea upon which it is based is a very happy one,and the book is also technically sound.”—DICK J. CROSBY (in charge of children's garden work, Agricultural Department, U.S.A.)

12mo, 261 pages, $1.25.

A tray design illustrating—first, fine harmony; second radiation.

THE ART CRAFTS

for Beginners.

By FRANK G. SANFORD

Director of Department Arts and Crafts, Chautauqua

The most up-to-date publication of its kind—a suggestive little manual for the teacher and a practical guide for the amateur.

The author describes in detail how to make over forty useful and ornamental articles in the various mediums described, together with suggestions for endless other varieties of similar objects,

The Contents includes;

I.	Design	V.	Leather Work
II.	Thin Woodworking	VI.	Bookbinding
III.	Pyrography	VII.	Simple Pottery
IV.	Sheet-Metal Work	VIII.	Basketry
		IX.	Bead Work

And among a great many other things which the author tells how to make are:

'How to Make a Sun-Dial

How to Make a Brass Candle-Shade

How to Make an Embossed Leather Card-Case

How to Make Copies of Simple Arizona Indian Pottery

How to Make a Fruit Basket of Cattail Leaves

How to Make a Bead Chain, etc., etc.

“Undoubtedly the best single reference book yet published.”—School Arts Book.

Each chapter contains a detailed list of the tools needed for the work described.

Over 200 photographs and working drawings by the author.

Square 12mo, $1.20 net (postage 9 cents).

The Century Co., Union Square, New York

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