The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
BOOKS OF SUMMER TRAVEL

1 Cievedon, the resting place of Arthur Henry Ballam. Very beautiful are this poets tributes to Tennyson To this writer the Lake country and the haunts of Wordsworth are very dear. A book abounding in deep interest and worth l full information.
 How the World Is Housed, by Frank 1 G. Carpenter. American Book com
 pany, New York. Price. 60 cents. I This book though but lately from the press, has been adopted by the Public School Reading Circles in Nebraska and will be widely used in the school work of other states. The book begins with the description of mans earliest dwellings, the palm leaf hut, the caves, the cliff dwellings of earliest people. most in | formative chapter upon the tent homes l follows. The Indian wigwam. the skin tent Summer home of the Eskimos), the skin tents of the native of Siberia, also of the Mongols of the desert of Gobi, of the tribes of Thibet. and of the tribes of Hottentots are described, and also pie tured The homes. of the people who live in huts are next shown. the sod hut of Lapland, the Kaffir home of ant clay. the rude shelters along the Amazon and Parana rivers. Next the child traveller is carried to Porto Rico where the poorer classes live In huts Of cane or of palm Ileaves; to visit the Samoans. who live in houses of grass; to the Philippines, where the houses are made of bamboo and of palm leaves. The tree homes in New tGunea and in the Solomons are DOT | trayed.
 l Another chapter gives glance at the l houses of Japan, the queer horseshoe | shaped houses of Corea, the qlIant-roofed
 homes of the Chinese surrounded by
 compounds, then a nasty glance at the
 heavy wooden dwellings of Norway, at the huts high Up on the Alps, at the
 stucco houses of Spain. Next the. real home of colonial days, the log cabin,
 and here the author tells the story of
 some of our great men who were born
 In those log huts. Then the development
 of our country, and the building of such
 homes as those the children of today may see, the home of Washington at
 Mount Vernon and that formerly of Lee at Arlington. A most important chap ter upon the worlds great forests fol- lows and the importance of conserving
 our own forest wealth, Is dwelt upon. l Something in these pages may be learned | of logging industry. of lumber industry,
 of quarres, of brick-making and build 1 ing, of iron from the mine through fur mace and rolling mill to building mate l rial. There are visits to zinc and tin mines and works, to glass factories, to paper mills, to manufacturies of paints, oils and varnishes. Problems of light and water and furnishing, and floor GOV | ering for our homes are discussed. With such a manual in hand a student can 1 learn much that should be known to the home maker. and that Is what each | living person aspires to be at some time or other; the builder and maker of home.
 l Out of Africa" by Thomas Lane Car ter (Neale Publishing Company, New 1 York. $150)
 Thoroughly good stories of African life. 1 Few things as fetching as the sketch, Me and Rhodes have been written. old Rub Dub" truly brave though braggart. will take place among the folk of fiction not to be forgotten. These vivid stories, full of vigorous life and splendid adventure, deserve to live long and give happy hours of interest to many. | The author of these stories was born and educated in New Orleans. As a mining 1 engineer he has travelled extensively in Europe, in Spanish America, and has lived for many years in South Africa.