Carpenters' And Joiners' Pocket Companion

Containing Rules, Data, and Directions for Laying Out Work, and for Calculating and Estimating. - With Frontispiece showing the parts of an Architectural Column; also containing many other Illustrative Engravings. - Compiled by Thomas Moloney, Carpenter and Joiner. - Cloth...........50 cents.

This is a compact and handy little volume, containing the most useful rules and memoranda, practically tested by many years' experience in the shop, factory, and building. Also, a treatise on the framing-square. It is by a thoroughly practical man, and contains enough that is not easily found any where else to make it worth more than its price to every intelligent carpenter.

Easy Lessons In Architecture

Consisting of a Series of Questions and Answers explaining in Simple Language the Principles and Progress of Architecture from the Earliest Times

By Thomas Mitchell. - Illustrated by nearly One Hundred and Fifty Engravings. - New Edition, with Amer ican additions. - Cloth...........50'cents.

Architecture is not only a profession and an art, but an important branch of every liberal education. No person can be said to be well educated who has not some knowledge of its general principles and of the characteristics of the different styles. The present work is probably the best architectural textbook for beginners ever published. The numerous illustrative engravings make the subject very simple, and prevent all misunderstanding. It tells all about the different styles, their peculiar features, their origin, and the principles that underlie their construction.

Hints And Aids To Builders

Gives hints and prices, tells how to measure, explains building terms, and, in short, contains a fund of information for all who are interested in building. - Paper..........25 cents.

Buck's Cottage And Other Designs

Buck's Designs in Architecture, showing a Variety of Designs, together with a large amount of Miscellaneous Matter, making it a very valuable book. - Forty designs for fifty cents. Just the Look you want, if you are going to build a cheap and comfortable home. It shows a great variety of cheap and medium-priced cottages, besides giving a number of useful hints and suggestions on the various questions liable to arise in building, such as selections of site, general arrangement of the plans, sanatary questions, etc. Cottages costing from $.100 to $5,000 are shown in considerable variety, and nearly every taste can be satisfied.

The information on site, general arrangement of plan, sanatary matters, &C is worth a great dead more than the cost of the book.

Water-Closets

A Historical, Mechanical, and Sanatary Treatise. - By GLENN BROWN, Architect; Associate American Institute of Architects. - Neatly bound in cloth, gilt title. . $1

This book contains over 250 engravings, drawn expressly for the work by the author. The drawings are so clear that the distinctive features of every device are easily seen at a glance, and the descriptions are particularly full and thorough. Every known water-closet is fully described, and an account given of its qualities, advantages, and defects. The paramount importance of this department of the construction of our houses renders all comment upon the value of such a work unnecessary.