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Nr. 108 (February, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Book reviews
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Book Reviews
Copyright, 1905, Frederick A. Stokes Company
GEORGE WASHINGTONS
WARMING PAN
ing is far more lasting than that now done by
electricity. Many ingenious devices are found.
The cover of this venison dish, for instance, rolls
back under the bottom in which is a receptacle for
hot water, the roast resting on a perforated tray.
The handles of covered disheswere sometimes made
easily detachable so that the covers when removed
can themselves be used as dishes.
Locks and Builders’ Hardware: A Handbook
for Architects. By Henry R. Towne, President
The Yale and Towne Manufacturing Com-
pany; Past President Ameri-
can Society Mechanical En-
gineers. Profuselyillustrated.
iömo. Pages 1117. $3.00.
New York: John Wiley &
Sons.
Mr. Henry R. Towne’s long
experience in supplying the wants
of architects in the field of build-
ers’ hardware, and his own wide
acquaintance with members of
the profession, have happily im-
pelled him to the preparation of
this combined handbook of tech-
nical information and ready ref-
erence catalogue of locks and
hardware. Sensibly avoiding the
reproach of presenting under
cover of a treatise a decoy adver-
tisement of the products of his
enterprise, he has succeedecl in venison dish
digesting the fruits of thirty
years of valuable experience
while relating the matter di-
rectly to his own practical re-
sults. The book, therefore, will
commend itself especially to ar-
chitects and builders and those
laymen who exercise personal
care and taste in supervising
plans for their homes, in that
it presents in ready compass a
representative and complete
Compilation of the material
available in ihe market. The
volume deserves the jocular
Classification made with out
irreverence in various other
Heids—it can well be called the
Hardware Bible, a 11 ick na me
that its excellent qualities as an
example of bookmaking, with
leather cover, round corners and gilt edges,
reatSy suggest and which in turn make it an at-
tractive addition to the technical corner of one’s
library. An excellent series of illustrated articles
has been contributed by the architect, W. W.
Kent, on “The Schools of Ornament.”
Other qualified writers contribute additional ar-
ticles on other branches of the subject. Mr. Mont-
gomery Schuyler writes on “Artistic Hardware.”
Mr. Henry Harrison Suplee traces the development
of artistic tendencies in a paper entitled “Artist and
Artisan.” Mr. Towne writes on lock making.
NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON, D. C.
m
HÜ
,
Copyright, 1905, Frederick A. Stokes Company
SHEEFIELD PLATE
C
Copyright, 1905, Frederick A. Stokes Company
GEORGE WASHINGTONS
WARMING PAN
ing is far more lasting than that now done by
electricity. Many ingenious devices are found.
The cover of this venison dish, for instance, rolls
back under the bottom in which is a receptacle for
hot water, the roast resting on a perforated tray.
The handles of covered disheswere sometimes made
easily detachable so that the covers when removed
can themselves be used as dishes.
Locks and Builders’ Hardware: A Handbook
for Architects. By Henry R. Towne, President
The Yale and Towne Manufacturing Com-
pany; Past President Ameri-
can Society Mechanical En-
gineers. Profuselyillustrated.
iömo. Pages 1117. $3.00.
New York: John Wiley &
Sons.
Mr. Henry R. Towne’s long
experience in supplying the wants
of architects in the field of build-
ers’ hardware, and his own wide
acquaintance with members of
the profession, have happily im-
pelled him to the preparation of
this combined handbook of tech-
nical information and ready ref-
erence catalogue of locks and
hardware. Sensibly avoiding the
reproach of presenting under
cover of a treatise a decoy adver-
tisement of the products of his
enterprise, he has succeedecl in venison dish
digesting the fruits of thirty
years of valuable experience
while relating the matter di-
rectly to his own practical re-
sults. The book, therefore, will
commend itself especially to ar-
chitects and builders and those
laymen who exercise personal
care and taste in supervising
plans for their homes, in that
it presents in ready compass a
representative and complete
Compilation of the material
available in ihe market. The
volume deserves the jocular
Classification made with out
irreverence in various other
Heids—it can well be called the
Hardware Bible, a 11 ick na me
that its excellent qualities as an
example of bookmaking, with
leather cover, round corners and gilt edges,
reatSy suggest and which in turn make it an at-
tractive addition to the technical corner of one’s
library. An excellent series of illustrated articles
has been contributed by the architect, W. W.
Kent, on “The Schools of Ornament.”
Other qualified writers contribute additional ar-
ticles on other branches of the subject. Mr. Mont-
gomery Schuyler writes on “Artistic Hardware.”
Mr. Henry Harrison Suplee traces the development
of artistic tendencies in a paper entitled “Artist and
Artisan.” Mr. Towne writes on lock making.
NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON, D. C.
m
HÜ
,
Copyright, 1905, Frederick A. Stokes Company
SHEEFIELD PLATE
C