WHAT shall I make next?" is a question often asked by the man or boy who is fortunate enough to have a home workshop. This book is an endeavor to answer that question. It contains plans for shop equipment ranging from a simple kitchen table workbench to a heavily built carpenter's bench, and designs for furniture of many varieties, some pieces so simple that they can be made by the beginner with relatively few tools and others so elaborately turned, inlaid, or otherwise decorated that they will stimulate the ingenuity and craftsmanship of those who have small woodworking machinery and many tools at their disposal. There are instructions for making a toy fire engine that really pumps water, a doll's house, and other toys, all of which are especially satisfactory projects because they give so much pleasure to the children for whom they are built. Many suggestions, too, are offered for improving the house and garden: clothes closet conveniences, kitchen cupboards, valance boards, mantels, lily ponds, trellises, and benches.

The remarkable popularity of model making as a hobby led to the inclusion of a chapter describing in detail the construction of a model of the Santa Maria and one of a 42-in. racing yacht. Those who master the construction of these models will find little difficulty in building similar models from the various blueprints and plans available in large variety-much less difficulty, in fact, than if merely a brief and sketchy description of a large number of models had been given in this book.

In addition to telling what to make, the editor has included in a condensed form as much information as possible on how to make it. The first three chapters are substantially a condensed manual on the choice, care, and use of tools, the making of joints, inlaying, and veneering. Chapter V (Small Woodworking Machinery) contains the essentials of operating small woodworking machinery, and Chapter VI (Wood Turning Simplified) is really a complete course in wood turning. Painting and decorating, too, have been allotted a chapter, although only the less familiar points have been taken up-the special finishes and treatments upon which information is not readily obtainable elsewhere.

The best work of many of the leading contributors to the Home Workshop Department of Popular Science Monthly is represented in this book. Their names would stand at the head of any list of amateur craftsmen and industrial arts teachers it would be possible to compile.

Emanuel E. Ericson, director of Industrial Education, State Teachers College, Santa Barbara, Calif., was responsible for much of the first three chapters. William W. Klenke, instructor of shopwork in the Central Manual Training High School, Newark, N. J., and a practicing architect, prepared practically all of Chapter V (Small Woodworking Machinery); and Herman Hjorth, of the Saunders Trade School, Yonkers, N. Y., who is the author of Reproduction of Antique Furniture and Principles of Woodworking, wrote almost all of Chapter VI (Wood Turning Simplified). Edward Thatcher, for many years a teacher of decorative metal work and wood carving at Teachers College, Columbia University, and F. Clarke Hughes, a teacher of industrial arts in Spokane, Wash., and author of Hand Work for Boys, were the designers of the toys in Chapter VII (Toys To Delight The Children). Capt. E. Armitage McCann, secretary of the Ship Model Makers' Club, author of three books on ship model making, and one of the world's foremost authorities on ship models, built the Santa Maria, and A. M. Youngquist, of the Morrison R. Waite High School, Toledo, Ohio, designed the sailing yacht model, both described in Chapter IX (Model Making).

Special acknowledgments are due to Leon H. Baxter, Jonathan Bright, Frederick J. Bryant, Warren N. Crane, Everett Eames, J. C. Eddie, Berton Elliot, Carl G. Erich, Frederick E. Fox, Chelsea Fraser, Samuel Gore, Charles A. King, Kenneth R. LaVoy, Edwin M. Love, Joseph J. Lukowitz, Philip H. Miller, E. M. Oren, L. M. Roehl, B. G. Seielstad, Hi Sibley, Ernest F. Spencer, R. C. Stanley, Harold P. Strand, Frank 0. Taafel, Marie Childs Todd, and F. N.

Vanderwalker.

Arthur Wakeling

New York, August, 1930