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The Mansions of England in the Olden Time
By JOSEPH NASH
One Hundred and Four Plates of Great Interest and Artistic Value. Supplement to the INTERNATIONAL
STUDIO.
A Few Copies Remain. No Reissue. 4to, $5.00 net. Postage, 35 cts.
This special number of the International Studio consists for the most part of very handsome engarvings, printed in sepia, of the stately homes of mediaeval England. The banquet and drawingrooms, baronial halls, bedrooms, courts and galleries of such historic mansions as Haddon Hall, Broughton Castle, B rams hill, Sett on Place, Moat House, Levens, Hatfield, Hampton Court and Crew Hall, are shown with the picturesquely-dressed people of the days of their first glory, giving life to1 the pictures. As many of these ancestral estates exist comparatively unchanged to-day, save in the garb of their occupants, this album of engravings is unusually interesting. Mr; C. Harrison Townsend writes the introduction and the work is edited by Charles Holme.
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International STUDIO
The Monthly Magazine of Fine and Applied Arts.
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prise in matters of scientific and public importance speaks well of the mental status of its administrative officials. While estimates place the range of this great system at 1,000 miles, in all probability it will be able to receive and transmit over much greater distances. The ancient Chaldeans, to whom philologists are apt to give the palm for the legend of the Tower of Babel, could never, in their wildest flights of imagination, have comprehended what we now all regard as a prosaic fact, the existence of a steel tower sending and receiving all languages through invisible space. This tower, 213 ft. high, will be completed at a point which is considered the most northwestern in Germany. As regards the simile that such an undertaking will be like the Tower of Babel, the fact that it will receive and transmit messages from Germany, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Spain, the Balkan peninsula and Russia, is sufficient evidence on that score. It is believed that operation will be extended as far as Saragossa, Naples and Cetinje to the south; as far as St. Petersburg in the east; in the north it will be a voice from the silence to the people of Drontheim and Narvik; and to the east German vessels homeward bound can send their tidings to Norddeich, while still on the Atlantic far beyond Land’s End. The proposal made in the beginning to erect these epoch-making towers on the island of Borkum was dismissed, and a choice made of the seaport Norddeich of the Frisian Islands instead. This town is the railway terminus of the Prussian system and better adapted through its general ac
cessibility to the work in prospect. The entire plant will be completed by November.—Electricity.
Redemption of Waste Land.—An unusually interesting experiment is about to be undertaken by the Bureau of Forestry in Wayne County, Penn. It is an attempt to reforest waste mountain land, and is undertaken in connection with a plan prepared for lands controlled by Richard Knight, of Middletown, N. Y.
The plan recommends the planting of commercially valuable trees on 1,500 acres of denuded land. Whatever young growth is at present occupying the ground will be favored where it will not detract from the value of the future stand. There is a second-growth forest of 700 acres adjacent to the land to be planted, and the recommendations will include directions for the right management of this forest, as well as measures to protect the whole property from fire.
The principal trees suitable for planting in this locality are chestnut, European larch, red pine, and red oak. Black locust has many desirable qualities, but its susceptibility to insect damage makes its use on a large scale somewhat hazardous, so that it will be planted only to a limited extent.
The growth of all these species is fairly rapid, so that they may be expected to make a substantial yield in from thirty to forty years. The yield from thinning in the meantime will also be of value. When the plantation is from fifteen to thirty years of
age a good deal of material can be utilized for such purposes as mine props.
The nursery stock needed for the plantation will be grown on the tract. This will reduce the first cost, and the seedlings, when ready for planting, will already be acclimated. To furnish these seedlings a nursery capable of rearing some 200,000 plants annually will be established in the coming spring.
The project is one of great interest to land owners of the region, as an example of what may be done with these waste lands. It is reasonably certain that the ex
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Business Firms are requested to send us copies of all Catalogues as soon as issued. These will be mentioned in the columns devoted to such information and then placed in our permanent file.
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THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECT,
TIMES BUILDING, NEW YORK.
The Mansions of England in the Olden Time
By JOSEPH NASH
One Hundred and Four Plates of Great Interest and Artistic Value. Supplement to the INTERNATIONAL
STUDIO.
A Few Copies Remain. No Reissue. 4to, $5.00 net. Postage, 35 cts.
This special number of the International Studio consists for the most part of very handsome engarvings, printed in sepia, of the stately homes of mediaeval England. The banquet and drawingrooms, baronial halls, bedrooms, courts and galleries of such historic mansions as Haddon Hall, Broughton Castle, B rams hill, Sett on Place, Moat House, Levens, Hatfield, Hampton Court and Crew Hall, are shown with the picturesquely-dressed people of the days of their first glory, giving life to1 the pictures. As many of these ancestral estates exist comparatively unchanged to-day, save in the garb of their occupants, this album of engravings is unusually interesting. Mr; C. Harrison Townsend writes the introduction and the work is edited by Charles Holme.
THE
International STUDIO
The Monthly Magazine of Fine and Applied Arts.
50c. a copy. §5.00 a year
THE STANDARD IN AMERICA AND EUROPE.
ALL ARCHITECTS should keep THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO on file. It keeps its readers in touch with all the latest Architectural work of merit. Beginning with the October Number there will appear a Special Series of Articles on the Current Work of our foremost Architects.
SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE.
JOHN LANE COMPANY, N. Y.
THE BODLEY HEAD, 67 Fifth Avenue
prise in matters of scientific and public importance speaks well of the mental status of its administrative officials. While estimates place the range of this great system at 1,000 miles, in all probability it will be able to receive and transmit over much greater distances. The ancient Chaldeans, to whom philologists are apt to give the palm for the legend of the Tower of Babel, could never, in their wildest flights of imagination, have comprehended what we now all regard as a prosaic fact, the existence of a steel tower sending and receiving all languages through invisible space. This tower, 213 ft. high, will be completed at a point which is considered the most northwestern in Germany. As regards the simile that such an undertaking will be like the Tower of Babel, the fact that it will receive and transmit messages from Germany, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Spain, the Balkan peninsula and Russia, is sufficient evidence on that score. It is believed that operation will be extended as far as Saragossa, Naples and Cetinje to the south; as far as St. Petersburg in the east; in the north it will be a voice from the silence to the people of Drontheim and Narvik; and to the east German vessels homeward bound can send their tidings to Norddeich, while still on the Atlantic far beyond Land’s End. The proposal made in the beginning to erect these epoch-making towers on the island of Borkum was dismissed, and a choice made of the seaport Norddeich of the Frisian Islands instead. This town is the railway terminus of the Prussian system and better adapted through its general ac
cessibility to the work in prospect. The entire plant will be completed by November.—Electricity.
Redemption of Waste Land.—An unusually interesting experiment is about to be undertaken by the Bureau of Forestry in Wayne County, Penn. It is an attempt to reforest waste mountain land, and is undertaken in connection with a plan prepared for lands controlled by Richard Knight, of Middletown, N. Y.
The plan recommends the planting of commercially valuable trees on 1,500 acres of denuded land. Whatever young growth is at present occupying the ground will be favored where it will not detract from the value of the future stand. There is a second-growth forest of 700 acres adjacent to the land to be planted, and the recommendations will include directions for the right management of this forest, as well as measures to protect the whole property from fire.
The principal trees suitable for planting in this locality are chestnut, European larch, red pine, and red oak. Black locust has many desirable qualities, but its susceptibility to insect damage makes its use on a large scale somewhat hazardous, so that it will be planted only to a limited extent.
The growth of all these species is fairly rapid, so that they may be expected to make a substantial yield in from thirty to forty years. The yield from thinning in the meantime will also be of value. When the plantation is from fifteen to thirty years of
age a good deal of material can be utilized for such purposes as mine props.
The nursery stock needed for the plantation will be grown on the tract. This will reduce the first cost, and the seedlings, when ready for planting, will already be acclimated. To furnish these seedlings a nursery capable of rearing some 200,000 plants annually will be established in the coming spring.
The project is one of great interest to land owners of the region, as an example of what may be done with these waste lands. It is reasonably certain that the ex
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Opera Ghairs, Portable,
Folding Ghairs, and All Styles of Seating
suitable for
Public Halls, Theatres, Etc.
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THE A. H. ANDREWS CO.
174-176 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 111.