Combines several booklets.

*Concrete Garages, the Fireproof Home for the Automobile* is much more useful than the short brochure on the concrete masonry for garages, being 36 pages. This actually gives some guidance on building forms for poured conctrete, as well as concrete tile, concrete block, and stucco on "wire lath" (hardware cloth) over metal or wooden framing. Not the beginner's hand-holding text, but enough direction for a handyman.

*Concrete Construction About the Home and on the Farm* is subtitled "The Recognized Text Book of Cement Users." This one does go into detail on mixes, forms, finish, even under water concrete. Being over 160 pages, it does go into detail on specifications for everything from sidewalks to basement walls, and culverts to silos. If you want a concrete chicken hourse or mushroom cellar, this is your book. You might consider it in building green, even if you do the actual work in rammed earth. Simple projects like steps and doghouses may be just what you want.

*Concrete in Highway Construction, A Text-Book for Highway Engineers and Supervisors* is probably more than most of us want (136 pg), but as informed citizens maybe we do need to catch a clue as to why it's better than asphalt, and what it takes to build them right. That much has not changed, and you just might want some concrete fence posts of your own.

*Concrete in Railroad Construction; a Treatise on Concrete for Railroad Engineers and Contractors* is getting very far afield, but I can see model railroaders wanting this for the pictures of structures like tunnels, bridges, and culverts, piers and retaining walls, but also stations, sheds, platforms, and stations for coal, sand, and ash, not to mention roundhouses and signal towers. Any railfan might, and if you're trying to find how your city looked nearly a century ago, some of the photos in 228 pages may be of bridges or stations now pulled down. The same can apply to the 253 pages of *Reinforced Concrete in Factory Construction,* then taking the place of brick.