, 1859-03-18

l-buildings: embracing the origin and meaning
Vi the house; the art Of hoIsc.builIing, including
planning, style, and construction; designs and
descrii tons Of cottages, Ermhouses, villas, and
OutbLildings Of various cost, and in the different
styles of architecture, etc. and an appendix,
containing recipes for paints and washes, stucco,
rough-cast, etc.; and instructions for roofing,
building with rough stone, unburnt brick, bal,
loon frames, and the concrete or gravel wall By
the author Of "The Garden" "The Farm" etc
With many original designs. New York, Fow-
Ter and Wells, publishers, 3Os Broadway. Price,
ia paper, 80 cts; in muslin, so cents. This work
c'Oses the popular series Of rural manuals to
which it belongs, and we greatly mistake il it
be not destined to command even more gener-
Gus patronage and a wider circulation than those
Farm" and "Domestic Animals" which have
preceded it. It is, like them, a thoroughly prac-
teal work, written for the people, in style
which the people can understand, and while CON
taining everything that one will expect or desire
to find in such work, is brought by its size and
price, within the reach of ALL The hints on
house building, contained in the second chapter
are alone worth many times the price Of the whoc
book. The designs, commencing with alog cabin
embrace houses Of oil degrees of cost; particular
attention being given to those Of low price, such
as the great mass Of the people most want, and
of every desirable style Of architecture. 1t is
designed for al parts Of the American continent
and o ltains Sou hcrn as well as Northern houses
Barns, stables, poultry.houses, piggcrics, ash
houses, ice-houses, and other out-buildings, have
also very properly place in this little book and
some admirable designs, especially for barns and
stables, are given. No one who ever expects to
build, if il be only an ice.houso or cistcrp.
should fail to consult this manual. Il might
well have been entitled "Evcry Man His Own
Architect" Tho series Of "Rural Manuals" to
which this bclongs-"The House, (" "The Gar
den, "The Farm" and s' Domestic Animals"-
will be furnished to subscribers ordering them all
at once, in paper for 81, in cloth for sl.75. The
whole series, bound in one large, handsome gilt
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beautiful story Of Grazieila," occupying the
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