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BOOKS for BOYS
Especially Helpful for the Use of Boys
in their Home Shops
BEGINNING WOODWORK, At Home and in School.
By Clinton S. VanDeusen.
A full and clear description in detail of the fundamental processes of elementary benchwork in wood. This description is given thru directions for making a few simple, useful articles, suitable either for school or home problems. The book contains more than one hundred sketches and ten working drawings. Price, $1.00.
MANUAL TRAINING TOYS, for the Boys’ Workshop.
By Harris W. Moore.
This book contains a collection of working drawings illustrating forty-two projects, overflowing with “boy” interest. It is a popular boy’s book that is truly educational. The projects are all new in the manual training shop. The text gives instructions for making each project and treats of tools and tool processes. Price, $1.00.
The CONSTRUCTION and FLYING of KITES.
By Charles M. Miller.
A book of unusual interest to the boy. It contains seven full-page plates of drawings of kites and fifteen figures—over forty kites shown. Details of construction are given and a kite tournament is described. Full of interesting suggestions. Price, 20 cents.
ESSENTIALS of WOODWORKING.
By Ira S. Griffith.
A textbook written especially for the use of grammar and high school students. A clear and comprehensive treatment of woodworking tools, materials, and processes, to supplement, but not to take the place of the instruction given by the teacher. The book does not contain a course of models; it may be used with any course. It is illustrated with photographs and numerous pen drawings. Price, $1.00.
The “Problems Series” of Working Drawings,
Good for Either Home or School Use
PROJECTS for BEGINNING WOODWORK and MECHANICAL DRAWING.
By Ira S. Griffith.
A work book for the use of students in grammar grade classes. It consists of working drawings and working directions. The projects are such as have proven of exceptional service where woodworking and mechanical drawing are taught in a thoro, systematic manner in the seventh and eighth grades. The aim has been to provide successful rather than unique problems. The fifty projects in the book have been selected and organized with the constant aim of securing the highest educational results. The book is especially suited for use in connection with “Essentials of Woodworking” by the same author. Price, 75 cents.
PROBLEMS in WOODWORKING.
By M. W. Murray.
A convenient collection of good problems consisting of forty plates bound in board covers with brass fasteners. Each plate is a working drawing, or problem in benchwork that has been successfully worked out by boys in one of the grades from seven to nine inclusive. Price, 75 cents.
ADVANCED PROJECTS in WOODWORK.
By Ira S. Griffith.
This book is similar to “Projects for Beginning Woodwork and Mechanical Drawing,” but is suited to high school needs. It consists of fifty plates of problems and accompanying notes. It is essentially a collection of problems in furniture making selected or designed with reference to school use. On the plate with each working drawing is a good perspective sketch of the completed object. In draftsmanship and refinement of design these problems are of superior quality. It is in every respect an excellent collection. Price, $1.00.
PROBLEMS in FURNITURE MAKING.
By Fred D. Crawshaw.
This book, revised and enlarged, consists of 43 full-page plates of working drawings suitable for use in grammar and high schools and 36 pages of text, including chapters on design, construction and finishes, and notes on the problems. Each project is shown in its completed form by a perspective sketch. Loose leaf, bound in board covers with brass fasteners. Price, $1.00.
PROBLEMS in WOOD-TURNING.
By Fred D. Crawshaw.
In the first place this is a book of problems—25 plates covering spindle, face-plate, and chuck turning. In the second place it is a textbook on the science and art of wood-turning illustrated by fifty pen sketches. It gives the mathematical basis for the cuts used in turning. In the third place it is a helpful discussion of the principles of design as applied to objects turned in wood. It is a clear, practical and suggestive book on wood-turning. Price, 80 cents.
PROBLEMS in MECHANICAL DRAWING.
By Charles A. Bennett. With drawings made by Fred D. Crawshaw.
This book consists of 80 plates and a few explanatory notes, and is bound in board covers with brass fasteners. Its purpose is to furnish teachers of classes beginning mechanical drawing with a large number of simple, practical problems. These have been selected with reference to the formation of good habits in technique, the interest of the pupils, and the subjects generally included in a grammar and first-year high school course. Each problem given is unsolved and therefore in proper form to hand to the pupil for solution. Price, $1.00.
Some Choice Books for Home or
School Libraries
HANDWORK in WOOD.
By William Noyes.
A handbook for teachers and a textbook for normal school and college students. A comprehensive and scholarly treatise, covering logging, sawmilling, seasoning and measuring, hand tools, wood fastenings, equipment and care of the shop, the common joints, types of wood structures, principles of joinery, and wood finishing. 304 Illustrations—excellent pen drawings and many photographs. Price, $2.00.
WOOD and FOREST.
By William Noyes.
A companion volume to “Handwork in Wood,” by the same author. Especially adapted as a reference book for teachers of woodworking. Not too difficult for use as a textbook for normal school and college students. Treats of wood, distribution of American forests, life of the forest, enemies of the forest, destruction, conservation and uses of the forest, with a key to the common woods by Filibert Roth. Describes 67 principal species of wood with maps of the habitat, leaf drawings, life size photographs and microphotographs of sections. Contains a general bibliography of books and articles on wood and forest. Profusely illustrated with photographs from the United States forest service and with pen and ink drawings by Anna Gausmann Noyes and photographs by the author. 309 pages. Price, $3.00.
DESIGN and CONSTRUCTION in WOOD.
By William Noyes.
A book full of charm and distinction and the first to give due consideration to the esthetic side of wood-working. It is intended to give to beginners practice in designing simple projects in wood and an opportunity to acquire skill in handling tools. The book illustrates a series of projects and gives suggestions for other similar projects together with information regarding tools and processes for making. A pleasing volume abundantly and beautifully illustrated. Price, $1.50.
THE MANUAL ARTS PRESS
PEORIA, ILLINOIS