20 DECEMBER 1884, Page 21

Amateur Work. Edited by the author of "Every Man his

own Mechanic." (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is the third annual volume of a most useful publication, which sufficiently declares its purpose by its title. There seems, as we glance over its pages, to be almost nothing that an amateur cannot do, if he will only take pains. He can print his own books, make his own furniture, and build, if he is very ambitious, his own organ. Those who do not aim quite so high will find in this volume abundance of hints for the humbler tasks which they may have the competence, the leisure, or the means to undertake.