Fretwork plans model-making instructions & photography tuition rubbed shoulders with home-made insect repellent conjuring tricks milk bottle care simple refrigeration & seamanship. We especially commend the series ‘ Kinks For Handy Men’. In a book of carefully-selected extracts from this august journal The Ammonite Press is proud to reintroduce these solid values at a time when society couldn’t be in greater need of guidance in such useful skills as ornamental glass-working at home & the production of bewildered rabbits from hats. How many young people these days can construct a carrier wave transmitter at the dining table? How much more satisfying would be the work of David Hockney had he made his own easel palette & oil paints? This book is bound to appeal to any young person in need of a phenakistoscope those women whose home is without a boot-cleaning stool & all men who wish to benefit from the advice given in countless Hobbies weeklies.