“The chapter headings [of this book are:] The gable and peaked-roof house; The lean-to house; The gambrel-roof house; The square three-story wood house; The square three-story brick house; Doorways and porches; Windows and window frames; Interior wood finish; Halls and stairways; Mantels and chimney places; Public buildings; Salem architecture of today. The first five chapters trace a definite development in Salem architecture by periods in a more thorough manner than has before been attempted. The last chapter deals with modern houses designed and built with rare good taste along historic lines since the disastrous Salem fire of 1914.”—Bookm
“It is not a chatty book like Miss Henderson’s; it is rather a serious, analytical, descriptive, and semi-technical study.” W. A. Dyer
+ Bookm 51:243 Ap ’20 280w
“The most valuable as well as the most complete study of the subject.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 25 ’20 650w
COUTTS, FRANCIS BURDETT THOMAS MONEY-. Spacious times and others. *$1.25 Lane 821
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A book of poems by an English writer, author of a number of volumes of essays and verse. Part 1 consists of war poems with such titles as: The new Pisgah; To the Belgians; To America aloof; To America at war; To an anticompulsion demagogue; To the strikers; The conscientious shirker; To Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. The second part contains poems of other days. Notes on some of the war poems come at the close.