A good size for this table is: length, forty-two inches; width, twenty-four inches; and height, thirty inches. The drop-shelves at the ends should be nine inches below the top of the table, while the drawer need not be more than four inches deep. The legs are two and a half inches or three inches square. The slats at the sides of the bookshelves are let into the table-top and the shelf (see Fig. 15) and apparently anchored by means of large nail-heads. The top is attached to the frame by means of cleats screwed fast to the top inner edges of the rails. Through these cleats screws are passed up and into the under side of the table-top, as shown in Fig. 16.
Fig. 12. Fig. 13. Fig. 14. Fig. 15. Fig. 16.
White-wood is a good material of which to make the table, since it takes a stain nicely. Finish with a coat or two of shellac.
A Magazine-rack
A convenient rack for magazines and periodicals is shown in Fig. 17.
The rack has three shelves and an enclosure at the top to hold extra large pamphlets. The two uprights and the cross-strip at the top are three-quarters of an inch thick and two and a half inches wide. The uprights are twenty-four inches long, and the cross-piece measures eighteen inches from tip to tip. Four inches from the top the uprights are cut, as shown in Fig. 18 A, so that a lap-joint can be formed. The uprights are spaced ten inches apart from the inside edges, making the total width fifteen inches.
Fig. 17. Fig. 18. Fig. 19.