To the many workmen who are purchasing the publications under the authorship of Fred T. Hodgson, and who we feel sure have been benefited by his excellent treatises on many Carpentry and Building subjects, we desire to inform them that the following list of books have been published since 190:!, thereby making them strictly up-to-date in every detail. All of the newer hooks bearing the imprint of Frederick .1. Drake & Co. are modern in every respect and Of a purely self-educational character, expressly issued for Home Study.

PRACTICAL USES OF THE STEEL SQUARE, two volumes, over 500 pages, including 100 per relive views and floor plans of medium-priced houses. Cloth, two volumes, price $2.00. Half leather, price $3.00.

MODERN CARPENTRY AND JOINERY, 300 pages, including 50 house plans, perspeotlve views and floor plans of medium and low-cost houses. Cloth, price $1.00. Half leather, price $1.60.

BUILDERS' ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING SELF-TAUGHT, over 860 pages, including 60 house plans. Cloth, price $2.00. Half leather, price $3.00.

MODERN ESTIMATOR AND CONTRACTORS' GUIDE, for pricing builders' work, 860 pages, including 50 house plans. Cloth, price $1.60. Half leather, price $2.00.

MODERN LOW-COST AMERICAN HOMES, over 200 pages. Cloth, price $1.00. Half Leather, price $1.50.

PRACTICAL UP-TO-DATE HARDWOOD FINISHER, over 300 pages Cloth, price $1,00. Half Leather, price 31.60.

COMMON SENSE STAIR BUILDING AND HANDRAILING, over 260 pages, including perspective views and Boor plans of 60 medium-priced houses. Cloth, price $1.00. Half leather, price $1.60.

STONEMASONS' AND BRICKLAYERS' GUIDE, over 200 pages. Cloth, price $1.50. Half leather, price $2.00.

PRACTICAL WOOD CARVING, over 800 pages. Cloth, price $1.60. Half leather, price $2.00.

Sold by booksellers generally, or sent, all charges paid, upon receipt of price, to any address in the world.

FREDERICK J DRAKE & CO. Publishers

Chicago, U S. A.

Practical Up-to-Date

PLUMBING

By

George B Clow

Over 150

Illustrations

A PRACTICAL up-to-date work on Sanitary Plumbing, comprising useful information on the wiping and soldering of lead pipe joints and the installation of hot and cold water and drainage systems into modern residences. Including the gravity tank supply and cylinder and tank system of water heating and the pressure cylinder system of water heating. Connections for bath tub. Connections for water closet. Connections for laundry tubs. Connections for wash-bowl or lavatory. A modern bath room. Bath tubs. Lavatories. Closets. Urinals. Laundry tubs. Shower baths. Toilet room in office buildings. Sinks. Faucets. Bibb-cocks. Soil-pipe fittings. Drainage fittings. Plumber's tool kit, etc., etc. 256 pages, 180 illustrations.

12 Mo

Cloth..........$1.50

Sold by Booksellers generally or sent postpaid to any address upon receipt of price by the Publishers

FREDERICK J

DRAKE &. CO.

Chicago, U

S.A.

Hot

Water

Heating,

Steam and Gas Fitting

By WM

DONALDSON

A MODERN treatise on Hot Water, Steam and Furnace Heating, and Steam and Gas Fitting, which is intended for the use and information of the owners of buildings and the mechanics who install the heating plants in them. It gives full and concise information with regard to Steam Boilers and Water Heaters and Furnaces, Pipe Systems for Steam and Hot Water Plants, Radiation, Radiator Valves and connections, Systems of Radiation, Heating Surfaces, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Damper Regulators, Fitters' Tools, Heating Surface of Pipes, Installing a Heating Plant and Specifications. Plans and Elevations of Steam and Hot Water Heating Plants are shown and all other subjects in the book are fully illustrated.

256 pages, 121 illustrations, 12mo, cloth, price, $1.50

Sold by Booksellers generally or sent postpaid to any address upon receipt of price by the Publishers

FREDERICK J

DRAKE & CO.

CHICAGO, U

S.A.

Modern Carpentry

ADVANCED SERIES

By Fred C

Thodgson

This is a continuation of Mr

Hodgson's first volume on Modern Carpentry and is intended to carry the student to a higher plane than is reached by the first volume. The first volume of this series may be considered as the alphabet of the science of carpentry and joinery, while the present volume leads the student into the intricacies of the art and shows how certain difficult problems may be solved with a minimum of labor. Every progressive workman - and especially those who have purchased the first volume of this series - cannot afford to be without this volume, as it contains so many things necessary the advanced workman should know, and that is likely to crop up at any time during his daily labors. The work is well illustrated with over 100 diagrams, sketches and scale drawings which are fully described and explained in the text. Many puzzling working problems are shown, described and solved. This is truly a valuable aid and assistant for the progressive workman.

300 pages, fully illustrated. 12mo, cloth, price, $1.50

Sold by Booksellers generally or sent postpaid to any address upon receipt of price by the Publishers

FREDERICK J

DRAKE & CO.

CHICAGO, U

S. A.