Amateur Work. Vol. I., New Series. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—
This "Practical Magazine of Constructive and Decorative Art and Manual Labour" has made, it will be seen, a fresh beginning. A description of the contents of a single number will doubtless in- troduce the magazine to such of our readers as may not know it. To take the first, then, "How to Make a Digitorium " (this is a "dumb piano," on which you learn to finger without disturbing your neighbours) ; "The Wheelbarrow : How to Make It ; " "A High-Backed Carpet Chair ; " "Magic-Lantern Slide Painting ; " "How to make a Four-Jawed Chuck" (how many of our readers know what is meant by a "four-jawed chuck " ?) ; "My Lathes, and How I Made Them ; " "Wind Models" (models of mills, &c., worked by the wind) ; "How to Convert Oakstaves into Fern-Pots ; " "Tent-Making for Amateurs ; " "Fitting and Erect, ing " (of machinery) ; "Walking-Sticks, and How to Make Them;" "Fretwork Cover for Blotting-Book ; " "My Single- Needle Telegraph Instruments." There is a pretty wide choice here. Then the editor gives "Notes on Novelties," and has his "Correspondents in Council." This is a most useful periodical, as we have more than once before had the pleasure of saying.
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