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 BOOKS for BOYS The "Problems Series" of Working Drawings Good for Either Home or School Use  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.

THE MANUAL ARTS PRESS PEORIA, ILLINOIS