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  THE CRAFTSMAN
           PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE CRAFTSMAN PUBLISHING CO.
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  GUSTAV STICKLEI, Editor                               BEN. WILES, Circulation
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  MRS. M. F. ROBERTS, Managing Editor                   EDGAR E. PHILLIPS,
Advertising Manager
VOLUME XXI              Contents for March, 1912                        
     NUMBER 6
  "Madonna"       From a Painting by Gari Melchers            
            Frontispiece
  Conservation: The Great Principle of National Thrift     By Overton W.
Price     585
  Illustrated
  Promise of Spring: A Poem                                    By M. I. Haskell
   594
  Interpreting Nature without Color                                     
          595
  Illustrated
  Old English Doorways                                   By Henry S. Chapman
      603
  Illustrated
  Planting Large Spaces for Homelike Gardcns                            
          612
  Illustrated
  Old Man Chepo: A Story                                   By Charles H.
Shinn. 622
  A Progressive Exhibition of American Architecture
  and Its Environment                                                   
          631
  Illustrated
  The Return of the Birds: Feathered Wardens of Our Fields              
          638
  To a Bluebird: A Poem                             . By Edward Wilbur Mason
      642
  Modern Country Homes in England                               By Barry
Parker    643
  Number Twenty-Two (Second part)
  Illustrated
  Seeing Nature with a Painter's Eye                         By Albert Scott
Cox   656
  Greatness: A Poem                                   By Edward Wilbur Mason
      662
  Among the Craftsmen
  Craftsman Concrete Bungalows Showing Economy of Construction   ' By The
Editor   663
  Illustrated
  The Picturesque Quality of Modern Brick                               
          673
  Illustrated
  A Backyard Garden from Japanese Inspiration                   By T. H.
Parker    677
  Illustrated
  How to Make a Cement Bathing Basin for Birds      By Adeline Thayer Thomson
      681
  Illustrated
  The Path in the Garden                             .    By Helen Lukens
Gaut     683
  Illustrated
  The Success of Color Photography                                      
           687
  The Craftsman Fireplace: A Complete Heating and Ventilating System    
           688
  Illustrated
  Some Craft Work in a Southern High School .      *..692
  illustrated
  Als ik Kan       .    .                                         By The
Editor    694
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