PART II.
TREATING OF, POWER OF BOILERS.--USEFUL RATIOS.--NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION.--CYLINDRICAL BOILER SHELLS.--CIRCULAR FURNACES.--FLAT PLATES--STAYS.--GIRDERS.--SCREWS.--HYDRAULIC TESTS.--RIVETING.--BOILER SETTING, CHIMNEYS, AND MOUNTINGS.--FUELS, &C.--EXAMPLES OF BOILERS AND SPEEDS OF STEAMSHIPS.--NOMINAL AND NORMAL HORSE POWER.
WITH DIAGRAMS FOR ALL BOILER CALCULATIONS AND DRAWINGS OF MANY VARIETIES OF BOILERS.
*** OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"This appears to be a work for which there should be a large demand on the part of mechanical engineers. It is no easy matter to compile a book of this class, and the labour involved is enormous, particularly when--as the author informs us--the majority of the tables and diagrams have been specially prepared for the work. The diagrams are exceptionally well executed, and generally constructed on the method adopted in a previous work by the same author.... The tables are very numerous, and deal with a greater variety of subjects than will generally be found in a work of this kind; they have evidently been compiled with great care and are unusually complete. All the information given appears to be well up to date.... It would be quite impossible within the limits at our disposal to even enumerate all the subjects treated; it should, however, be mentioned that the author does not confine himself to a mere bald statement of formulæ and laws, but in very many instances shows succinctly how these are derived.... The latter part of the book is devoted to diagrams relating to Boiler Construction, and to nineteen beautifully-executed plates of working drawings of boilers and their details. As samples of how such drawings should be got out, they may be cordially recommended to the attention of all young, and even some elderly, engineers.... Altogether the book is one which every mechanical engineer may, with advantage to himself add to his library."--_Industries._
"Mr. Foley is well fitted to compile such a work.... The diagrams are a great feature of the work.... Regarding the whole work, it may be very fairly stated that Mr. Foley has produced a volume which will undoubtedly fulfil the desire of the author and become indispensable to all mechanical engineers."--_Marine Engineer._
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"A veritable monument of industry on the part of Mr. Foley, who has succeeded in producing what is simply invaluable to the engineering profession."--_Steamship._
_=Coal and Speed Tables.=_
_A POCKET BOOK OF COAL AND SPEED TABLES, for Engineers and Steam-users._ By NELSON FOLEY, Author of "The Mechanical Engineer's Reference Book." Pocket-size, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"These tables are designed to meet the requirements of every-day use; they are of sufficient scope for most practical purposes, and may be commended to engineers and users of steam."--_Iron._
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_=Steam Engine.=_
_TEXT-BOOK ON THE STEAM ENGINE._ With a Supplement on Gas Engines, and PART II. ON HEAT ENGINES. By T. M. GOODEVE, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, Professor of Mechanics at the Royal College of Science, London; Author of "The Principles of Mechanics," "The Elements of Mechanism," &c. Twelfth Edition, Enlarged. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 6_s._ cloth.
"Professor Goodeve has given us a treatise on the steam engine which will bear comparison with anything written by Huxley or Maxwell, and we can award it no higher praise."--_Engineer._
"Mr. Goodeve's text-book is a work of which every young engineer should possess himself."--_Mining Journal._
_=Gas Engines.=_
_ON GAS-ENGINES._ With Appendix describing a Recent Engine with Tube Igniter. By T. M. GOODEVE, M.A. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"Like all Mr. Goodeve's writings, the present is no exception in point of general excellence. It is a valuable little volume."--_Mechanical World._
_=Steam Engine Design.=_
_A HANDBOOK ON THE STEAM ENGINE_, with especial Reference to Small and Medium-sized Engines. For the Use of Engine-Makers, Mechanical Draughtsmen, Engineering Students and Users of Steam Power. By HERMAN HAEDER, C.E. English Edition, Re-edited by the Author from the Second German Edition, and Translated, with considerable Additions and Alterations, by H. H. P. POWLES, A.M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E. With nearly 1,100 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 9_s._ cloth.
"A perfect encyclopædia of the steam engine and its details, and one which must take a permanent place in English drawing-offices and workshops."--_A Foreman Pattern-maker._
"This is an excellent book, and should be in the hands of all who are interested in the construction and design of medium sized stationary engines.... A careful study of its contents and the arrangement of the sections leads to the conclusion that there is probably no other book like it in this country. The volume aims at showing the results of practical experience, and it certainly may claim a complete achievement of this idea."--_Nature._
"There can be no question as to its value. We cordially commend it to all concerned in the design and construction of the steam engine."--_Mechanical World._
_=Steam Boilers.=_
_A TREATISE ON STEAM BOILERS: Their Strength, Construction, and Economical Working._ By ROBERT WILSON, C.E. Fifth Edition. 12mo, 6_s._ cloth.
"The best treatise that has ever been published on steam boilers."--_Engineer._
"The author shows himself perfect master of his subject, and we heartily recommend all employing steam power to possess themselves of the work."--_Ryland's Iron Trade Circular._
_=Boiler Chimneys.=_
_BOILER AND FACTORY CHIMNEYS: Their Draught-Power and Stability._ With a Chapter on _Lightning Conductors_. By ROBERT WILSON, A.I.C.E., Author of "A Treatise on Steam Boilers," &c. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A valuable contribution to the literature of scientific building."--_The Builder._
_=Boiler Making.=_
_THE BOILER-MAKER'S READY RECKONER & ASSISTANT._ With Examples of Practical Geometry and Templating, for the Use of Platers, Smiths and Riveters. By JOHN COURTNEY, Edited by D. K. CLARK, M.I.C.E. Third Edition, 480 pp., with 140 Illusts. Fcap. 8vo, 7_s._ half-bound.
"No workman or apprentice should be without this book."--_Iron Trade Circular._
_=Locomotive Engine Development.=_
_THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT._ A Popular Treatise on the Gradual Improvements made in Railway Engines between 1803 and 1893. By CLEMENT E. STRETTON, C.E., Author of "Safe Railway Working," &c. Second Edition, Revised and much Enlarged. With 95 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"Students of railway history and all who are interested in the evolution of the modern locomotive will find much to attract and entertain in this volume."--_The Times._
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_=Fire Engineering.=_
_FIRES, FIRE-ENGINES, AND FIRE-BRIGADES._ With a History of Fire-Engines, their Construction, Use, and Management; Remarks on Fire-Proof Buildings, and the Preservation of Life from Fire; Statistics of the Fire Appliances in English Towns; Foreign Fire Systems Hints on Fire-Brigades, &c. &c. By CHARLES F. T. YOUNG, C.E. With numerous Illustrations. 544 pp., demy 8vo, £1 4_s._ cloth.
"To those interested in the subject of fires and fire apparatus, we most heartily commend this book. It is the only English work we now have upon the subject."--_Engineering._
"It displays much evidence of careful research; and Mr. Young has put his facts neatly together. His acquaintance with the practical details of the construction of steam fire engines, old and new, and the conditions with which it is necessary they should comply, is accurate and full."--_Engineer._
_=Estimating for Engineering Work, &c.=_
_ENGINEERING ESTIMATES, COSTS AND ACCOUNTS_: A Guide to Commercial Engineering. With numerous Examples of Estimates and Costs of Millwright Work, Miscellaneous Productions, Steam Engines and Steam Boilers; and a Section on the Preparation of Costs Accounts. By A GENERAL MANAGER. Demy 8vo, 12_s._ cloth.
"This is an excellent and very useful book, covering subject-matter in constant requisition in every factory and workshop.... The book is invaluable, not only to the young engineer, but also to the estimate department of every works."--BUILDER.
"We accord the work unqualified praise. The information is given in a plain, straightforward manner, and bears throughout evidence of the intimate practical acquaintance of the author with every phase of commercial engineering."--MECHANICAL WORLD.
_=Engineering Construction.=_
_PATTERN-MAKING: A Practical Treatise_, embracing the Main Types of Engineering Construction, and including Gearing, both Hand and Machine made, Engine Work, Sheaves and Pulleys, Pipes and Columns, Screws, Machine Parts, Pumps and Cocks, the Moulding of Patterns in Loam and Greensand, &c., together with the methods of Estimating the weight of Castings; to which is added an Appendix of Tables for Workshop Reference. By A FOREMAN PATTERN MAKER. Second Edition, thoroughly Revised and much Enlarged. With upwards of 450 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"A well-written technical guide, evidently written by a man who understands and has practised what he has written about.... We cordially recommend it to engineering students, young journeymen, and others desirous of being initiated into the mysteries of pattern-making."--_Builder._
"More than 450 illustrations help to explain the text, which is, however, always clear and explicit, thus rendering the work an excellent _vade mecum_ for the apprentice who desires to become master of his trade."--_English Mechanic._
_=Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering Terms.=_
_LOCKWOOD'S DICTIONARY OF TERMS USED IN THE PRACTICE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING_, embracing those current in the Drawing Office, Pattern Shop, Foundry, Fitting, Turning, Smith's and Boiler Shops, &c. &c. Comprising upwards of 6,000 Definitions. Edited by A FOREMAN PATTERN-MAKER, Author of "Pattern Making." Second Edition, Revised, with Additions. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Just the sort of handy dictionary required by the various trades engaged in mechanical engineering. The practical engineering pupil will find the book of great value in his studies, and every foreman engineer and mechanic should have a copy."--_Building News._
"Not merely a dictionary, but, to a certain extent, also a most valuable guide. It strikes us as a happy idea to combine with a definition of the phrase useful information on the subject of which it treats."--_Machinery Market._
_=Mill Gearing.=_
_TOOTHED GEARING_: A Practical Handbook for Offices and Workshops. By A FOREMAN PATTERN MAKER, Author of "Pattern Making," "Lockwood's Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering Terms," &c. With 184 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 6_s._ cloth.
[_Just published._
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
CHAP. I. PRINCIPLES.--II. FORMATION OF TOOTH PROFILES.--III. PROPORTIONS OF TEETH.--IV. METHODS OF MAKING TOOTH FORMS.--V. INVOLUTE TEETH.--VI. SOME SPECIAL TOOTH FORMS.--VII. BEVEL WHEELS.--VIII. SCREW GEARS.--IX. WORM GEARS.--X. HELICAL WHEELS.--XI. SKEW BEVELS.--XII. VARIABLE AND OTHER GEARS.--XIII. DIAMETRICAL PITCH.--XIV. THE ODONTOGRAPH.--XV. PATTERN GEARS.--XVI. MACHINE MOULDING GEARS.--XVII. MACHINE CUT GEARS.--XVIII. PROPORTION OF WHEELS.
"We must give the book our unqualified praise for its thoroughness of treatment, and we can heartily recommend it to all interested as the most practical book on the subject yet written.--_Mechanical World._
_=Stone-working Machinery.=_
_STONE-WORKING MACHINERY, and the Rapid and Economical Conversion of Stone._ With Hints on the Arrangement and Management of Stone Works. By M. POWIS BALE, M.I.M.E. With Illusts. Crown 8vo, 9_s._
"The book should be in the hands of every mason or student of stone-work."--_Colliery Guardian._
"A capital handbook for all who manipulate stone for building or ornamental purposes."--_Machinery Market._
_=Pump Construction and Management.=_
_PUMPS AND PUMPING: A Handbook for Pump Users._ Being Notes on Selection, Construction and Management. By M. POWIS BALE, M.I.M.E., Author of "Woodworking Machinery," "Saw Mills," &c. Second Edition, Revised. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The matter is set forth as concisely as possible. In fact, condensation rather than diffuseness has been the author's aim throughout; yet he does not seem to have omitted anything likely to be of use."--_Journal of Gas Lighting._
"Thoroughly practical and simply and clearly written."--_Glasgow Herald._
_=Milling Machinery, etc.=_
_MILLING MACHINES AND PROCESSES: A Practical Treatise on Shaping Metals by Rotary Cutters_, including Information on Making and Grinding the Cutters. By PAUL N. HASLUCK, Author of "Lathe-work," "Handybooks for Handicrafts," &c. With upwards of 300 Engravings, including numerous Drawings by the Author. Large crown 8vo, 352 pages, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A new departure in engineering literature.... We can recommend this work to all interested in milling machines; it is what it professes to be--a practical treatise."--_Engineer._
"A capital and reliable book, which will no doubt be of considerable service, both to those who are already acquainted with the process as well as to those who contemplate its adoption."--_Industries._
_=Turning.=_
_LATHE-WORK: A Practical Treatise on the Tools, Appliances, and Processes employed in the Art of Turning_. By PAUL N. HASLUCK. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Cr. 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"Written by a man who knows, not only how work ought to be done, but who also knows how to do it, and how to convey his knowledge to others. To all turners this book would be valuable."--_Engineering._
"We can safely recommend the work to young engineers. To the amateur it will simply be invaluable. To the student it will convey a great deal of useful information."--_Engineer._
_=Screw-Cutting.=_
_SCREW THREADS: And Methods of Producing Them._ With Numerous Tables, and complete directions for using Screw-Cutting Lathes. By PAUL N. HASLUCK, Author of "Lathe-Work," &c. With Seventy-four Illustrations. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Waistcoat-pocket size, 1_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Full of useful information, hints and practical criticism. Taps, dies and screwing-tools generally are illustrated and their action described."--_Mechanical World._
"It is a complete compendium of all the details of the screw-cutting lathe; in fact a _multum in parvo_ on all the subjects it treats upon."--_Carpenter and Builder._
_=Smith's Tables for Mechanics, etc.=_
_TABLES, MEMORANDA, AND CALCULATED RESULTS, FOR MECHANICS, ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, etc._ Selected and Arranged by FRANCIS SMITH. Fifth Edition, thoroughly Revised and Enlarged, with a New Section of ELECTRICAL TABLES, FORMULÆ, and MEMORANDA. Waistcoat-pocket size, 1_s._ 6_d._ limp leather.
"It would, perhaps, be as difficult to make a small pocket-book selection of notes and formulæ to suit ALL engineers as it would be to make a universal medicine; but Mr. Smith's waistcoat-pocket collection may be looked upon as a successful attempt."--_Engineer._
"The best example we have ever seen of 270 pages of useful matter packed into the dimensions of a card-case."--_Building News._
"A veritable pocket treasury of knowledge."--_Iron._
_=French-English Glossary for Engineers, etc.=_
_A POCKET GLOSSARY of TECHNICAL TERMS: ENGLISH-FRENCH, FRENCH-ENGLISH_; with Tables suitable for the Architectural, Engineering, Manufacturing and Nautical Professions. By JOHN JAMES FLETCHER, Engineer and Surveyor. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 200 pp. Waistcoat-pocket size, 1_s._ 6_d._ limp leather.
"It is a very great advantage for readers and correspondents in France and England to have so large a number of the words relating to engineering and manufacturers collected in a Liliputian volume. The little book will be useful both to students and travellers."--_Architect._
"The glossary of terms is very complete, and many of the tables are new and well arranged. We cordially commend the book."--_Mechanical World._
_=Year-Book of Engineering Formulæe, &c.=_
_THE ENGINEER'S YEAR-BOOK FOR 1894._ Comprising Formulæ, Rules, Tables, Data and Memoranda in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Marine and Mine Engineering. By H. R. KEMPE, A.M. Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., Technical Officer of the Engineer-in-Chief's Office. General Post Office, London, Author of "A Handbook of Electrical Testing," "The Electrical Engineer's Pocket-Book," &c. With 700 Illustrations, specially Engraved for the work. Crown 8vo, 600 pages, 8_s._ leather.
[_Just published._
"Represents an enormous quantity of work, and forms a desirable book of reference."--_The Engineer._
"The book is distinctly in advance of most similar publications in this country."--_Engineering._
"This valuable and well-designed book of reference meets the demands of all descriptions of engineers."--_Saturday Review._
"Teems with up-to-date information in every branch of engineering and construction."--_Building News._
"The needs of the engineering profession could hardly be supplied in a more admirable, complete and convenient form. To say that it more than sustains all comparisons is praise of the highest sort, and that may justly be said of it."--_Mining Journal._
"There is certainly room for the new comer, which supplies explanations and directions, as well as formulæ and tables. It deserves to become one of the most successful of the technical annuals."--_Architect._
"Brings together with great skill all the technical information which an engineer has to use day by day. It is in every way admirably equipped, and is sure to prove successful."--_Scotsman._
"The up-to-dateness of Mr. Kempe's compilation is a quality that will not be lost on the busy people for whom the work is intended."--_Glasgow Herald._
_=Portable Engines.=_
_THE PORTABLE ENGINE; ITS CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT._ A Practical Manual for Owners and Users of Steam Engines generally. By WILLIAM DYSON WANSBROUGH. With 90 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This is a work of value to those who use steam machinery.... Should be read by everyone who has a steam engine, on a farm or elsewhere."--_Mark Lane Express._
"We cordially commend this work to buyers and owners of steam engines, and to those who have to do with their construction or use."--_Timber Trades Journal._
"Such a general knowledge of the steam engine as Mr. Wansbrough furnishes to the reader should be acquired by all intelligent owners and others who use the steam engine."--_Building News._
"An excellent text-book of this useful form of engine. 'The Hints to Purchasers' contain a good deal of commonsense and practical wisdom."--_English Mechanic._
_=Iron and Steel.=_
_"IRON AND STEEL": A Work for the Forge, Foundry, Factory, and Office._ Containing ready, useful, and trustworthy Information for Iron-masters and their Stock-takers; Managers of Bar, Rail, Plate, and Sheet Rolling Mills: Iron and Metal Founders; Iron Ship and Bridge Builders; Mechanical, Mining, and Consulting Engineers; Architects, Contractors, Builders, and Professional Draughtsmen. By CHARLES HOARE, Author of "The Slide Rule," &c. Eighth Edition, Revised throughout and considerably Enlarged. 32mo. 6_s._ leather.
"For comprehensiveness the book has not its equal."--_Iron._
"One of the best of the pocket books."--_English Mechanic._
"We cordially recommend this book to those engaged in considering the details of all kinds of iron and steel works."--_Naval Science._
_=Elementary Mechanics.=_
_CONDENSED MECHANICS._ A Selection of Formulæ, Rules, Tables, and Data for the Use of Engineering Students, Science Classes, &c. In Accordance with the Requirements of the Science and Art Department. By W. G. CRAWFORD HUGHES, A.M.I.C.E. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The book is well fitted for those who are either confronted with practical problems in their work, or are preparing for examination and wish to refresh their knowledge by going through their formulæ again."--_Marine Engineer._
"It is well arranged, and meets the wants of those for whom it is intended."--_Railway News._
_=Steam.=_
_THE SAFE USE OF STEAM._ Containing Rules for Unprofessional Steam-users. By an ENGINEER. Sixth Edition. Sewed, 6_d._
"If steam-users would but learn this little book by heart, boiler explosions would become sensations by their rarity."--_English Mechanic._
_=Warming.=_
_HEATING BY HOT WATER_: with Information and Suggestions on the best Methods of Heating Public, Private and Horticultural Buildings. By WALTER JONES. Second Edition. With 96 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ _net_.
"We confidently recommend all interested in heating by hot water to secure a copy of this valuable little treatise."--_The Plumber and Decorator._
_THE POPULAR WORKS OF MICHAEL REYNOLDS_
("THE ENGINE DRIVER'S FRIEND").
_=Locomotive-Engine Driving.=_
_LOCOMOTIVE-ENGINE DRIVING: A Practical Manual for Engineers in charge of Locomotive Engines._ By MICHAEL REYNOLDS, Member of the Society of Engineers, formerly Locomotive Inspector L. B. and S. C. R. Ninth Edition. Including a KEY TO THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE. With Illustrations and Portrait of Author. Crown 8vo. 4_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Mr. Reynolds has supplied a want, and has supplied it well. We can confidently recommend the book, not only to the practical driver, but to everyone who takes an interest in the performance of locomotive engines."--_The Engineer._
"Mr. Reynolds has opened a new chapter in the literature of the day. This admirable practical treatise, of the practical utility of which we have to speak in terms of warm commendation."--_Athenæum._
"Evidently the work of one who knows his subject thoroughly."--_Railway Service Gazette._
"Were the cautions and rules given in the book to become part of the every-day working of our engine-drivers, we might have fewer distressing accidents to deplore."--_Scotsman._
_=Stationary Engine Driving.=_
_STATIONARY ENGINE DRIVING: A Practical Manual for Engineers in charge of Stationary Engines._ By MICHAEL REYNOLDS. Fifth Edition, Enlarged. With Plates and Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, 4_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The author is thoroughly acquainted with his subjects, and his advice on the various points treated is clear and practical.... He has produced a manual which is an exceedingly useful one for the class for whom it is specially intended."--_Engineering._
"Our author leaves no stone unturned. He is determined that his readers shall not only know something about the stationary engine, but all about it."--_Engineer._
"An engineman who has mastered the contents of Mr.Reynolds's book will require but little actual experience with boilers and engines before he can be trusted to look after them."--_English Mechanic._
_=The Engineer, Fireman, and Engine-Boy.=_
_THE MODEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER, FIREMAN, and ENGINE-BOY._ Comprising a Historical Notice of the Pioneer Locomotive Engines and their Inventors. By MICHAEL REYNOLDS. With numerous Illustrations and a fine Portrait of George Stephenson. Crown 8vo, 4_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"From the technical knowledge of the author it will appeal to the railway man of to-day more forcibly than anything written by Dr. Smiles.... The volume contains information of a technical kind, and facts that every driver should be familiar with."--_English Mechanic._
"We should be glad to see this book in the possession of everyone in the kingdom who has ever laid, or is to lay, hands on a locomotive engine."--_Iron._
_=Continuous Railway Brakes.=_
_CONTINUOUS RAILWAY BRAKES: A Practical Treatise on the several Systems in Use in the United Kingdom; their Construction and Performance._ With copious Illustrations and numerous Tables. By MICHAEL REYNOLDS. Large crown 8vo, 9_s._ cloth.
"A popular explanation of the different brakes. It will be of great assistance in forming public opinion, and will be studied with benefit by those who take an interest in the brake."--_English Mechanic._
"Written with sufficient technical detail to enable the principle and relative connection of the various parts of each particular brake to be readily grasped."--_Mechanical World._
_=Engine-Driving Life.=_
_ENGINE-DRIVING LIFE: Stirring Adventures and Incidents in the Lives of Locomotive-Engine Drivers._ By MICHAEL REYNOLDS. Third and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 1_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"From first to last perfectly fascinating. Wilkie Collins's most thrilling conceptions are thrown into the shade by true incidents, endless in their variety, related in every page."--_North British Mail._
"Anyone who wishes to get a real insight into railway life cannot do better than read 'Engine-Driving Life' for himself; and if he once take it up he will find that the author's enthusiasm and real love of the engine-driving profession will carry him on till he has read every page."--_Saturday Review._
_=Pocket Companion for Enginemen.=_
_THE ENGINEMAN'S POCKET COMPANION AND PRACTICAL EDUCATOR FOR ENGINEMEN, BOILER ATTENDANTS, AND MECHANICS._ By MICHAEL REYNOLDS. With Forty-five Illustrations and numerous Diagrams. Third Edition, Revised. Royal 18mo, 3_s._ 6_d._, strongly bound for pocket wear.
"This admirable work is well suited to accomplish its object, being the honest workmanship of a competent engineer."--_Glasgow Herald._
"A most meritorious work, giving in a succinct and practical form all the information an engine-minder desirous of mastering the scientific principles of his daily calling would require."--_The Miller._
"A boon to those who are striving to become efficient mechanics."--_Daily Chronicle._
CIVIL ENGINEERING, SURVEYING, etc.
_MR. HUMBER'S VALUABLE ENGINEERING BOOKS._
_=The Water Supply of Cities and Towns.=_
_A COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE on the WATER-SUPPLY OF CITIES AND TOWNS._ By WILLIAM HUMBER, A-M.Inst.C.E., and M. Inst. M.E., Author of "Cast and Wrought Iron Bridge Construction," &c. &c. Illustrated with 50 Double Plates, 1 Single Plate, Coloured Frontispiece, and upwards of 250 Woodcuts, and containing 400 pages of Text. Imp. 4to, £6 6_s._ elegantly and substantially half-bound in morocco.
_List of Contents._
I. Historical Sketch of some of the means that have been adopted for the Supply of Water to Cities and Towns.--II. Water and the Foreign Matter usually associated with it.--III. Rainfall and Evaporation.--IV. Springs and the water-bearing formations of various districts.--V. Measurement and Estimation of the flow of Water.--VI. On the Selection of the Source of Supply.--VII. Wells.--VIII. Reservoirs.--IX. The Purification of Water.--X. Pumps.--XI. Pumping Machinery.--XII. Conduits.--XIII. Distribution of Water.--XIV. Meters, Service Pipes, and House Fittings.--XV. The Law and Economy of Water Works.--XVI. Constant and Intermittent Supply.--XVII. Description of Plates.--Appendices, giving Tables of Rates of Supply, Velocities, &c. &c., together with Specifications of several Works illustrated, among which will be found: Aberdeen, Bideford, Canterbury, Dundee. Halifax, Lambeth, Rotherham, Dublin, and others.
"The most systematic and valuable work upon water supply hitherto produced in English, or in any other language.... Mr. Humber's work is characterised almost throughout by an exhaustiveness much more distinctive of French and German than of English technical treatises."--_Engineer._
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_=Cast and Wrought Iron Bridge Construction.=_
_A COMPLETE AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON CAST AND WROUGHT IRON BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, including Iron Foundations._ In Three Parts--Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive. By WILLIAM HUMBER, A.M.Inst.C.E., and M.Inst.M.E. Third Edition, Revised and much improved, with 115 Double Plates (20 of which now first appear in this edition), and numerous Additions to the Text. In Two Vols., imp. 4to, £6 16_s._ 6_d._ half-bound in morocco.
"A very valuable contribution to the standard literature of civil engineering. In addition to elevations, plans and sections, large scale details are given which very much enhance the instructive worth of those illustrations."--_Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal._
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_=Strains, Calculation of.=_
_A HANDY BOOK FOR THE CALCULATION OF STRAINS IN GIRDERS AND SIMILAR STRUCTURES, AND THEIR STRENGTH._ Consisting of Formulæ and Corresponding Diagrams, with numerous details for Practical Application, &c. By WILLIAM HUMBER, A-M.Inst.C.E., &c. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, nearly 100 Woodcuts and 3 Plates, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The formulae are neatly expressed, and the diagrams good."--_Athenæum._
"We heartily commend this really _handy_ book to our engineer and architect readers."--_English Mechanic._
_=Barlow's Strength of Materials, enlarged by Humber.=_
_A TREATISE ON THE STRENGTH OF MATERIALS_: with Rules for Application in Architecture, the Construction of Suspension Bridges, Railways, &c. By PETER BARLOW, F.R.S. A New Edition, Revised by his Sons, P. W. BARLOW, F.R.S., and W. H. BARLOW, F.R.S.; to which are added, Experiments by HODGKINSON, FAIRBAIRN, and KIRKALDY; and Formulæ for Calculating Girders, &c. Arranged and Edited by WM. HUMBER, A-M.Inst.C.E. Demy 8vo, 400 pp., with 19 large Plates and numerous Woodcuts, 18_s._ cloth.
"Valuable alike to the student, tyro, and the experienced practitioner, it will always rank future, as it has hitherto done, as the standard treatise on that particular subject."--_Engineer._
"There is no greater authority than Barlow."--_Building News._
"As a scientific work of the first class, it deserves a foremost place on the bookshelves of every civil engineer and practical mechanic."--_English Mechanic._
_MR. HUMBER'S GREAT WORK ON MODERN ENGINEERING._
Complete in Four Volumes, imperial 4to, price £12 12_s._, half-morocco. Each Volume sold separately as follows:--
_A RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF MODERN ENGINEERING._ FIRST SERIES. Comprising Civil, Mechanical, Marine, Hydraulic, Railway, Bridge, and other Engineering Works, &c. By WILLIAM HUMBER, A-M.Inst.C.E., &c. Imp. 4to, with 36 Double Plates, drawn to a large scale, Photographic Portrait of John Hawkshaw, C.E., F.R.S., &c., and copious descriptive Letterpress, Specifications, &c., £3 3_s._ half-morocco.
_List of the Plates and Diagrams._
Victoria Station and Roof, L. B. & S. C. R. (3 plates); Southport Pier (2 plates); Victoria Station and Roof, L. C. & D. and G. W. R. (6 plates); Roof of Cremorne Music Hall; Bridge over G. N. Railway; Roof of Station, Dutch Rhenish Rail (2 plates); Bridge over the Thames, West London Extension Railway (5 plates); Armour Plates: Suspension Bridge, Thames (4 plates); The Allen Engine; Suspension Bridge, Avon (3 plates); Underground Railway (3 plates).
"Handsomely lithographed and printed. It will find favour with many who desire to preserve in a permanent form copies of the plans and specifications prepared for the guidance of the contractors for many important engineering works."--_Engineer._
_HUMBER'S PROGRESS OF MODERN ENGINEERING._ SECOND SERIES. Imp. 4to, with 36 Double Plates, Photographic Portrait of Robert Stephenson, C.E., M.P., F.R.S., &c., and copious descriptive Letterpress, Specifications, &c., £3 3_s._ half-morocco.
_List of the Plates and Diagrams._
Birkenhead Docks, Low Water Basin (15 plates); Charing Cross Station Roof, C. C. Railway (3 plates); Digswell Viaduct, Great Northern Railway; Robbery Wood Viaduct, Great Northern Railway; Iron Permanent Way; Clydach Viaduct, Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railway; Ebbw Viaduct, Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railway; College Wood Viaduct, Cornwall Railway; Dublin Winter Palace Roof (3 plates); Bridge over the Thames, L. C. & D. Railway (6 plates); Albert Harbour, Greenock (4 plates).
"Mr. Humber has done the profession good and true service, by the fine collection of examples he has here brought before the profession and the public."--_Practical Mechanic's Journal._
_HUMBER'S PROGRESS OF MODERN ENGINEERING._ THIRD SERIES. Imp. 4to, with 40 Double Plates, Photographic Portrait of J. R. M'Clean, late Pres. Inst. C.E., and copious descriptive Letterpress, Specifications, &c., £3 3_s._ half-morocco.
_List of the Plates and Diagrams._
MAIN DRAINAGE, METROPOLIS.--_North Side._--Map showing Interception of Sewers; Middle Level Sewer (2 plates); Outfall Sewer, Bridge over River Lea (3 plates); Outfall Sewer, Bridge over Marsh Lane, North Woolwich Railway, and Bow and Barking Railway Junction; Outfall Sewer, Bridge over Bow and Barking Railway (3 plates); Outfall Sewer, Bridge over East London Waterworks' Feeder (2 plates); Outfall Sewer, Reservoir (2 plates); Outfall Sewer, Tumbling Bay and Outlet; Outfall Sewer, Penstocks. _South Side._--Outfall Sewer, Bermondsey Branch (2 plates); Outfall Sewer, Reservoir and Outlet (4 plates); Outfall Sewer, Filth Hoist; Sections of Sewers (North and South Sides).
THAMES EMBANKMENT.--Section of River Wall; Steamboat Pier, Westminster (2 plates); Landing Stairs between Charing Cross and Waterloo Bridges; York Gate (2 plates); Overflow and Outlet at Savoy Street Sewer (3 plates); Steamboat Pier, Waterloo Bridge (3 plates); Junction of Sewers, Plans and Sections; Gullies, Plans and Sections; Rolling Stock; Granite and Iron Forts.
"The drawings have a constantly increasing value, and whoever desires to possess clear representations of the two great works carried out by our Metropolitan Board will obtain Mr. Humber's volume."--_Engineer._
_HUMBER'S PROGRESS OF MODERN ENGINEERING._ FOURTH SERIES. Imp. 4to, with 36 Double Plates, Photographic Portrait of John Fowler, late Pres. Inst. C.E., and copious descriptive Letterpress, Specifications, &c., £3 3_s._ half-morocco.
_List of the Plates and Diagrams._
Abbey Mills Pumping Station, Main Drainage, Metropolis (4 plates); Barrow Docks (5 plates); Manquis Viaduct, Santiago and Valparaiso Railway (2 plates); Adams Locomotive, St. Helen's Canal Railway (2 plates); Cannon Street Station Roof, Charing Cross Railway (3 plates); Road Bridge over the River Moka (2 plates); Telegraphic Apparatus for Mesopotamia; Viaduct over the River Wye, Midland Railway (3 plates); St. Germans Viaduct, Cornwall Railway (2 plates); Wrought-Iron Cylinder for Diving Bell; Millwall Docks (6 plates); Milroy's Patent Excavator; Metropolitan District Railway (6 plates); Harbours, Ports, and Breakwaters (3 plates).
"We gladly welcome another year's issue of this valuable publication from the able pen of Mr. Humber. The accuracy and general excellence of this work are well known, while its usefulness in giving the measurements and details of some of the latest examples of engineering, as carried out by the most eminent men in the profession, cannot be too highly prized."--_Artisan._
_=Statics, Graphic and Analytic.=_
_GRAPHIC AND ANALYTIC STATICS, in their Practical Application to the Treatment of Stresses in Roofs, Solid Girders, Lattice, Bowstring and Suspension Bridges, Braced Iron Arches and Piers, and other Frameworks._ By R. HUDSON GRAHAM, C.E. Containing Diagrams and Plates to Scale. With numerous Examples, many taken from existing Structures. Specially arranged for Class-work in Colleges and Universities. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo, 16_s._ cloth.
"Mr. Graham's book will find a place wherever graphic and analytic statics are used or studied."--_Engineer._
"The work is excellent from a practical point of view, and has evidently been prepared with much care. The directions for working are ample, and are illustrated by an abundance of well-selected examples. It is an excellent text-book for the practical draughtsman."--_Athenæum._
_=Practical Mathematics.=_
_MATHEMATICS FOR PRACTICAL MEN_: Being a Commonplace Book of Pure and Mixed Mathematics. Designed chiefly for the use of Civil Engineers, Architects and Surveyors. By OLINTHUS GREGORY, L.L.D., F.R.A.S., Enlarged by HENRY LAW, C.E. 4th Edition, carefully Revised by J. R. YOUNG, formerly Professor of Mathematics, Belfast College. With 13 Plates. 8vo, £1 1_s._ cloth.
"The engineer or architect will here find ready to his hand rules for solving nearly every mathematical difficulty that may arise in his practice. The rules are in all cases explained by means of examples, in which every step of the process is clearly worked out."--_Builder._
"One of the most serviceable books for practical mechanics.... It is an instructive book for the student, and a text-book for him who, having once mastered the subjects it treats of, needs occasionally to refresh his memory upon them."--_Building News._
_=Hydraulic Tables.=_
_HYDRAULIC TABLES, CO-EFFICIENTS, and FORMULÆ for finding the Discharge of Water from Orifices, Notches, Weirs, Pipes, and Rivers._ With New Formulæ, Tables, and General Information on Rainfall, Catchment-Basins, Drainage, Sewerage, Water Supply for Towns and Mill Power. By JOHN NEVILLE, Civil Engineer, M.R.I.A. Third Ed., carefully Revised, with considerable Additions. Numerous Illusts. Cr. 8vo, 14_s._ cloth.
"Alike valuable to students and engineers in practice; its study will prevent the annoyance of avoidable failures, and assist them to select the readiest means of successfully carrying out any given work connected with hydraulic engineering."--_Mining Journal._
"It is, of all English books on the subject, the one nearest to completeness.... From the good arrangement of the matter, the clear explanations, and abundance of formulæ, the carefully calculated tables, and, above all, the thorough acquaintance with both theory and construction, which is displayed from first to last, the book will be found to be an acquisition."--_Architect._
_=Hydraulics.=_
_HYDRAULIC MANUAL._ Consisting of Working Tables and Explanatory Text. Intended as a Guide in Hydraulic Calculations and Field Operations. By LOWIS D'A. JACKSON, Author of "Aid to Survey Practice," "Modern Metrology," &c. Fourth Edition, Enlarged. Large cr. 8vo, 16_s._ cl.
"The author has had a wide experience in hydraulic engineering and has been a careful observer of the facts which have come under his notice, and from the great mass of material at his command he has constructed a manual which may be accepted as a trustworthy guide to this branch of the engineer's profession. We can heartily recommend this volume to all who desire to be acquainted with the latest development of this important subject."--_Engineering._
"The standard-work in this department of mechanics."--_Scotsman._
"The most useful feature of this work is its freedom from what is superannuated, and its thorough adoption of recent experiments; the text is, in fact, in great part a short account of the great modern experiments."--_Nature._
_=Drainage.=_
_ON THE DRAINAGE OF LANDS, TOWNS, AND BUILDINGS._ By G. D. DEMPSEY, C.E., Author of "The Practical Railway Engineer," &c. Revised, with large Additions on RECENT PRACTICE IN DRAINAGE ENGINEERING, by D. KINNEAR CLARK, M.Inst.C.E. Author of "Tramways: Their Construction and Working," "A Manual of Rules, Tables, and Data for Mechanical Engineers," &c. Second Edition, Corrected. Fcap. 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"The new matter added to Mr. Dempsey's excellent work is characterised by the comprehensive grasp and accuracy of detail for which the name of Mr. D. K. Clark is a sufficient voucher."--_Athenæum._
"As a work on recent practice in drainage engineering, the book is to be commended to all who are making that branch of engineering science their special study."--_Iron._
"A comprehensive manual on drainage engineering, and a useful introduction to the student."--_Building News._
_=Water Storage, Conveyance, and Utilisation.=_
_WATER ENGINEERING_: A Practical Treatise on the Measurement, Storage, Conveyance, and Utilisation of Water for the Supply of Towns, for Mill Power, and for other Purposes. By CHARLES SLAGG, Water and Drainage Engineer, A.M.Inst.C.E., Author of "Sanitary Work in the Smaller Towns, and in Villages," &c. With numerous Illusts. Cr. 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"As a small practical treatise on the water supply of towns, and on some applications of water-power, the work is in many respects excellent."--_Engineering._
"The author has collated the results deduced from the experiments of the most eminent authorities, and has presented them in a compact and practical form, accompanied by very clear and detailed explanations.... The application of water as a motive power is treated very carefully and exhaustively."--_Builder._
"For anyone who desires to begin the study of hydraulics with a consideration of the practical applications of the science there is no better guide."--_Architect._
_=River Engineering.=_
_RIVER BARS: The Causes of their Formation, and their Treatment by "Induced Tidal Scour;"_ with a Description of the Successful Reduction by this Method of the Bar at Dublin. By I. J. MANN, Assist. Eng. to the Dublin Port and Docks Board. Royal 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"We recommend all interested in harbour works--and, indeed, those concerned in the improvements of rivers generally--to read Mr. Mann's interesting work on the treatment of river bars."--_Engineer._
_=Trusses.=_
_TRUSSES OF WOOD AND IRON. Practical Applications of Science in Determining the Stresses, Breaking Weights, Safe Loads, Scantlings, and Details of Construction_, with Complete Working Drawings. By WILLIAM GRIFFITHS, Surveyor, Assistant Master, Tranmere School of Science and Art. Oblong 8vo, 4_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This handy little book enters so minutely into every detail connected with the construction of roof trusses, that no student need be ignorant of these matters."--_Practical Engineer._
_=Railway Working.=_
_SAFE RAILWAY WORKING. A Treatise on Railway Accidents: Their Cause and Prevention; with a Description of Modern Appliances and Systems._ By CLEMENT E. STRETTON, C.E., Vice-President and Consulting Engineer, Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. With Illustrations and Coloured Plates. Third Edition, Enlarged. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A book for the engineer, the directors, the managers; and, in short, all who wish for information on railway matters will find a perfect encyclopædia in 'Safe Railway Working.'"--_Railway Review._
"We commend the remarks on railway signalling to all railway managers, especially where a uniform code and practice is advocated."--_Herepath's Railway Journal._
"The author may be congratulated on having collected, in a very convenient form, much valuable information on the principal questions affecting the safe working of railways."--_Railway Engineer._
_=Oblique Bridges.=_
_A PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL ESSAY ON OBLIQUE BRIDGES._ With 13 large Plates. By the late GEORGE WATSON BUCK, M.I.C.E. Third Edition, revised by his Son, J. H. WATSON BUCK, M.I.C.E.; and with the addition of Description to Diagrams for Facilitating the Construction of Oblique Bridges, by W. H. BARLOW, M.I.C.E. Royal 8vo, 12_s._ cloth.
"The standard text-book for all engineers regarding skew arches is Mr. Buck's treatise, and it would be impossible to consult a better."--_Engineer._
"Mr. Buck's treatise is recognised as a standard text-book, and his treatment has divested the subject of many of the intricacies supposed to belong to it. As a guide to the engineer and architect, on a confessedly difficult subject, Mr. Buck's work is unsurpassed."--_Building News._
_=Tunnel Shafts.=_
_THE CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE TUNNEL SHAFTS: A Practical and Theoretical Essay._ By J. H. WATSON BUCK, M.Inst.C.E., Resident Engineer, London and North-Western Railway. Illustrated with Folding Plates. Royal 8vo, 12_s._ cloth.
"Many of the methods given are of extreme practical value to the mason; and the observations on the form of arch, the rules for ordering the stone, and the construction of the templates will be found of considerable use. We commend the book to the engineering profession."--_Building News._
"Will be regarded by civil engineers as of the utmost value, and calculated to save much time and obviate many mistakes."--_Colliery Guardian._
_=Student's Text-Book on Surveying.=_
_PRACTICAL SURVEYING_: A Text-Book for Students preparing for Examination or for Survey-work in the Colonies. By GEORGE W. USILL, A.M.I.C.E., Author of "The Statistics of the Water Supply of Great Britain." With Four Lithographic Plates and upwards of 330 Illustrations. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Including Tables of Natural Sines, Tangents, Secants, &c. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth; or, on THIN PAPER, bound in limp leather, gilt edges, rounded corners, for pocket use, 12_s._ 6_d._
"The best forms of instruments are described as to their construction, uses and modes of employment, and there are innumerable hints on work and equipment such as the author, in his experience as surveyor, draughtsman, and teacher, has found necessary, and which the student in his inexperience will find most serviceable."--_Engineer._
"The latest treatise in the English language on surveying, and we have no hesitation in saying that the student will find it a better guide than any of its predecessors.... Deserves to be recognised as the first book which should be put in the hands of a pupil of Civil Engineering, and every gentleman of education who sets out for the Colonies would find it well to have a copy."--_Architect._
_=Survey Practice.=_
_AID TO SURVEY PRACTICE, for Reference in Surveying, Levelling, and Setting-out; and in Route Surveys of Travellers by Land and Sea._ With Tables, Illustrations, and Records. By LOWIS D'A. JACKSON, A.M.I.C.E., Author of "Hydraulic Manual," "Modern Metrology," &c. Second Edition, Enlarged. Large crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6d. cloth.
"A valuable _vade-mecum_ for the surveyor. We can recommend this book as containing an admirable supplement to the teaching of the accomplished surveyor."--_Athenæum._
"As a text-book we should advise all surveyors to place it in their libraries, and study well the matured instructions afforded in its pages."--_Colliery Guardian._
"The author brings to his work a fortunate union of theory and practical experience which, aided by a clear and lucid style of writing, renders the book a very useful one."--_Builder._
_=Surveying, Land and Marine.=_
_LAND AND MARINE SURVEYING_, in Reference to the Preparation of Plans for Roads and Railways; Canals, Rivers, Towns' Water Supplies; Docks and Harbours. With Description and Use of Surveying Instruments. By W. D. HASKOLL, C.E., Author of "Bridge and Viaduct Construction," &c. Second Edition, Revised, with Additions. Large cr. 8vo, 9_s._ cl.
"This book must prove of great value to the student. We have no hesitation in recommending it, feeling assured that it will more than repay a careful study."--_Mechanical World._
"A most useful and well arranged book. We can strongly recommend it as a carefully-written and valuable text-book. It enjoys a well-deserved repute among surveyors."--_Builder._
"This volume cannot fail to prove of the utmost practical utility. It may be safely recommended to all students who aspire to become clean and expert surveyors."--_Mining Journal._
_=Field-Book for Engineers.=_
_THE ENGINEER'S, MINING SURVEYOR'S, AND CONTRACTOR'S FIELD-BOOK._ Consisting of a Series of Tables, with Rules, Explanations of Systems, and use of Theodolite for Traverse Surveying and Plotting the Work with minute accuracy by means of Straight Edge and Set Square only; Levelling with the Theodolite, Casting-out and Reducing Levels to Datum, and Plotting Sections in the ordinary manner; setting-out Curves with the Theodolite by Tangential Angles and Multiples, with Right and Left-hand Readings of the Instrument: Setting-out Curves without Theodolite, on the System of Tangential Angles by sets of Tangents and Offsets; and Earthwork Tables to 80 feet deep, calculated for every 6 inches in depth. By W. D. HASKOLL, C.E. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, 12_s._ cloth.
"The book is very handy; the separate tables of sines and tangents to every minute will make it useful for many other purposes, the genuine traverse tables existing all the same."--_Athenæum._
"Every person engaged in engineering field operations will estimate the importance of such a work and the amount of valuable time which will be saved by reference to a set of reliable tables prepared with the accuracy and fulness of those given in this volume."--_Railway News._
_=Levelling.=_
_A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF LEVELLING._ Showing its Application to purposes of Railway and Civil Engineering, in the Construction of Roads; with Mr. TELFORD'S Rules for the same. By FREDERICK W. SIMMS, F.G.S., M.Inst.C.E. Seventh Edition, with the addition of Law's Practical Examples for Setting-out Railway Curves, and TRAUTWINE'S Field Practice of Laying-out Circular Curves. With 7 Plates and numerous Woodcuts. 8vo, 8_s._ 6_d._ cloth. *** TRAUTWINE on Curves may be had separate, 5_s._
"The text-book on levelling in most of our engineering schools and colleges."--_Engineer._
"The publishers have rendered a substantial service to the profession, especially to the younger members, by bringing out the present edition of Mr. Simms's useful work.--_Engineering._
_=Trigonometrical Surveying.=_
_AN OUTLINE OF THE METHOD OF CONDUCTING A TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY, for the Formation of Geographical and Topographical Maps and Plans, Military Reconnaissance, Levelling, &c._, with Useful Problems, Formulæ, and Tables. By Lieut.-General FROME, R.E. Fourth Edition, Revised and partly Re-written by Major-General Sir CHARLES WARREN, G.C.M.G., R.E. With 19 Plates and 115 Woodcuts. Royal 8vo, 16_s._ cloth.
"The simple fact that a fourth edition has been called for is the best testimony to its merits. No words of praise from us can strengthen the position so well and so steadily maintained by this work. Sir Charles Warren has revised the entire work, and made such additions as were necessary to bring every portion of the contents up to the present date."--_Broad Arrow._
_=Field Fortification.=_
_A TREATISE ON FIELD FORTIFICATION, THE ATTACK OF FORTRESSES, MILITARY MINING, AND RECONNOITRING._ By Colonel I. S. MACAULAY, late Professor of Fortification in the R.M.A., Woolwich. Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo, with separate Atlas of 12 Plates, 12_s._ cloth.
_=Tunnelling.=_
_PRACTICAL TUNNELLING._ Explaining in detail the Setting-out of the works, Shaft-sinking and Heading-driving, Ranging the Lines and Levelling underground, Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels, with the amount of Labour required for, and the Cost of, the various portions of the work. By FREDERICK W. SIMMS, F.G.S., M.Inst.C.E. Third Edition, Revised and Extended by D. KINNEAR CLARK, M.Inst.C.E. Imperial 8vo, with 21 Folding Plates and numerous Wood Engravings, 30_s._ cloth.
"The estimation in which Mr. Simms's book on tunnelling has been held for over thirty years cannot be more truly expressed than in the words of the late Prof. Rankine:--'The best source of information on the subject of tunnels is Mr. F. W. Simms's work on Practical Tunnelling.'"--_Architect._
"It has been regarded from the first as a text-book of the subject.... Mr. Clark has added immensely to the value of the book."--_Engineer._
_=Tramways and their Working.=_
_TRAMWAYS: THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND WORKING._ Embracing a Comprehensive History of the System; with an exhaustive Analysis of the various Modes of Traction, including Horse-Power, Steam, Cable Traction, Electric Traction, &c.; a Description of the Varieties of Rolling Stock; and ample Details of Cost and Working Expenses. New Edition, Thoroughly Revised, and Including the Progress recently made in Tramway Construction, &c. &c. By D. KINNEAR CLARK, M.Inst.C.E. With numerous Illustrations and Folding Plates. In One Volume, 8vo, 700 pages, price about 25_s._
[_Nearly ready._
"All interested in tramways must refer to it, as all railway engineers have turned to the author's work 'Railway Machinery.'"--_Engineer._
"An exhaustive and practical work on tramways, in which the history of this kind of locomotion, and a description and cost of the various modes of laying tramways, are to be found."--_Building News._
"The best form of rails, the best mode of construction, and the best mechanical appliances are so fairly indicated in the work under review, that any engineer about to construct a tramway will be enabled at once to obtain the practical information which will be of most service to him."--_Athenæum._
_=Curves, Tables for Setting-out.=_
_TABLES OF TANGENTIAL ANGLES AND MULTIPLES for Setting-out Curves from 5 to 200 Radius._ By ALEXANDER BEAZELEY, M.Inst.C.E. Fourth Edition. Printed on 48 Cards, and sold in a cloth box, waistcoat-pocket size, 3_s._ 6_d._
"Each table is printed on a small card, which, being placed on the theodolite, leaves the hands free to manipulate the instrument--no small advantage as regards the rapidity of work."--_Engineer._
"Very handy; a man may know that all his day's work must fall on two of these cards, which he puts into his own card-case, and leaves the rest behind."--_Athenæum._
_=Earthwork.=_
_EARTHWORK TABLES._ Showing the Contents in Cubic Yards of Embankments, Cuttings, &c., of Heights or Depths up to an average of 80 feet. By JOSEPH BROADBENT, C.E., and FRANCIS CAMPIN, C.E. Crown 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"The way in which accuracy is attained, by a simple division of each cross section into three elements, two in which are constant and one variable, is ingenious."--_Athenæum._
_=Heat, Expansion by.=_
_EXPANSION OF STRUCTURES BY HEAT._ By JOHN KEILY, C.E., late of the Indian Public Works and Victorian Railway Departments. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
Section I. FORMULAS AND DATA. Section II. METAL BARS. Section III. SIMPLE FRAMES. Section IV. COMPLEX FRAMES AND PLATES. Section V. THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY. Section VI. MECHANICAL FORCE OF HEAT. Section VII. WORK OF EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION. Section VIII. SUSPENSION BRIDGES. Section IX. MASONRY STRUCTURES.
"The aim the author has set before him, viz., to show the effects of heat upon metallic and other structures, is a laudable one, for this is a branch of physics upon which the engineer or architect can find but little reliable and comprehensive data in books."--_Builder._
"Whoever is concerned to know the effect of changes of temperature on such structures as suspension bridges and the like, could not do better than consult Mr. Keily's valuable and handy exposition of the geometrical principles involved in these changes."--_Scotsman._
_=Earthwork, Measurement of.=_
_A MANUAL ON EARTHWORK._ By ALEX. J. S. GRAHAM, C.E. With numerous Diagrams. Second Edition. 18mo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A great amount of practical information, very admirably arranged, and available for rough estimates, as well as for the more exact calculations required in the engineer's and contractor's offices."--_Artizan._
_=Strains in Ironwork.=_
_THE STRAINS ON STRUCTURES OF IRONWORK_: with Practical Remarks on Iron Construction. By F. W. SHEILDS, M.Inst.C.E. Second Edition, with 5 Plates. Royal 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"The student cannot find a better little book on this subject."--_Engineer._
_=Cast Iron and other Metals, Strength of.=_
_A PRACTICAL ESSAY ON THE STRENGTH OF CAST IRON AND OTHER METALS._ By THOMAS TREDGOLD, C.E. Fifth Edition, including Hodgkinson's Experimental Researches. 8vo, 12_s._ cloth.
_=Oblique Arches.=_
_A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF OBLIQUE ARCHES._ By JOHN HART. Third Edition, with Plates. Imperial 8vo, 8_s._ cloth.
_=Girders, Strength of.=_
_GRAPHIC TABLE FOR FACILITATING THE COMPUTATION OF THE WEIGHTS OF WROUGHT IRON AND STEEL GIRDERS, etc._, for Parliamentary and other Estimates. By J. H. WATSON BUCK, M.Inst.C.E. On a Sheet, 2_s._ 6_d._
_=Water Supply and Water-Works.=_
_A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE WATER SUPPLY OF TOWNS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WATER-WORKS._ By W. K. BURTON, A.M.Inst.C E., Professor of Sanitary Engineering in the Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan, and Consulting Engineer to the Tokyo Water-Works. With an Appendix on =Water-Works in Countries subject to Earthquakes=, by JOHN MILNE, F.R.S., Professor of Mining in the Imperial University of Japan. With numerous Plates and Illusts.
[_In the press._
MARINE ENGINEERING, SHIPBUILDING, NAVIGATION, etc.
_=Pocket-Book for Naval Architects and Shipbuilders.=_
_THE NAVAL ARCHITECT'S AND SHIPBUILDER'S POCKET-BOOK of Formulæ, Rules, and Tables, and MARINE ENGINEER'S AND SURVEYOR'S Handy Book of Reference._ By CLEMENT MACKROW, Member of the Institution of Naval Architects, Naval Draughtsman. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged to 700 pages, with upwards of 300 Illustrations. Fcap., 12_s._ 6_d._ strongly bound in leather.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS, DECIMAL FRACTIONS.--TRIGONOMETRY.--PRACTICAL GEOMETRY.--MENSURATION.--CENTRES AND MOMENTS OF FIGURES.--MOMENTS OF INERTIA AND RADII OF GYRATION.--ALGEBRAICAL EXPRESSIONS FOR SIMPSON'S RULES.--MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES.--CENTRE OF GRAVITY.--LAWS OF MOTION.--DISPLACEMENT, CENTRE OF BUOYANCY.--CENTRE OF GRAVITY OF SHIP'S HULL.--STABILITY CURVES AND METACENTRES.--SEA AND SHALLOW-WATER WAVES.--ROLLING OF SHIPS.--PROPULSION AND RESISTANCE OF VESSELS.--SPEED TRIALS.--SAILING, CENTRE OF EFFORT.--DISTANCES DOWN RIVERS, COAST LINES.--STEERING AND RUDDERS OF VESSELS.--LAUNCHING CALCULATIONS AND VELOCITIES.--WEIGHT OF MATERIAL AND GEAR.--GUN PARTICULARS AND WEIGHT.--STANDARD GAUGES.--RIVETED JOINTS AND RIVETING.--STRENGTH AND TESTS OF MATERIALS.--BINDING AND SHEARING STRESSES, ETC.--STRENGTH OF SHAFTING, PILLARS, WHEELS, ETC.--HYDRAULIC DATA, ETC.--CONIC SECTIONS, CATENARIAN CURVES.--MECHANICAL POWERS, WORK.--BOARD OF TRADE REGULATIONS FOR BOILERS AND ENGINES.--BOARD OF TRADE REGULATIONS FOR SHIPS.--LLOYD'S RULES FOR BOILERS.--LLOYD'S WEIGHT OF CHAINS.--LLOYD'S SCANTLINGS FOR SHIPS.--DATA OF ENGINES AND VESSELS.--SHIPS' FITTINGS AND TESTS.--SEASONING PRESERVING TIMBER.--MEASUREMENT OF TIMBER.--ALLOYS, PAINTS, VARNISHES.--DATA FOR STOWAGE.--ADMIRALTY TRANSPORT REGULATIONS.--RULES FOR HORSEPOWER, SCREW PROPELLERS, ETC.--PERCENTAGES FOR BUTT STRAPS, ETC.--PARTICULARS OF YACHTS.--MASTING AND RIGGING VESSELS.--DISTANCES OF FOREIGN PORTS.--TONNAGE TABLES.--VOCABULARY OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH TERMS.--ENGLISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.--FOREIGN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.--DECIMAL EQUIVALENTS.--FOREIGN MONEY.--DISCOUNT AND WAGE TABLES.--USEFUL NUMBERS AND READY RECKONERS--TABLES OF CIRCULAR MEASURES.--TABLES OF AREAS OF AND CIRCUMFERENCES OF CIRCLES.--TABLES OF AREAS OF SEGMENTS OF CIRCLES.--TABLES OF SQUARES AND CUBES AND ROOTS OF NUMBERS.--TABLES OF LOGARITHMS OF NUMBERS.--TABLES OF HYPERBOLIC LOGARITHMS.--TABLES OF NATURAL SINES, TANGENTS, ETC.--TABLES OF LOGARITHMIC SINES, TANGENTS, ETC.
"In these days of advanced knowledge a work like this is of the greatest value. It contains a vast amount of information. We unhesitatingly say that it is the most valuable compilation for its specific purpose that has ever been printed. No naval architect, engineer, surveyor, or seaman, wood or iron shipbuilder, can afford to be without this work."--_Nautical Magazine._
"Should be used by all who are engaged in the construction or designs of vessels.... Will be found to contain the most useful tables and formulæ required by shipbuilders, carefully collected from the best authorities, and put together in a popular and simple form."--_Engineer._
"The professional shipbuilder has now, in a convenient and accessible form, reliable data for solving many of the numerous problems that present themselves in the course of his work."--_Iron._
"There is no doubt that a pocket-book of this description must be a necessity in the shipbuilding trade.... The volume contains a mass of useful information clearly expressed and presented in a handy form."--_Marine Engineer._
_=Marine Engineering.=_
_MARINE ENGINES AND STEAM VESSELS (A Treatise on)._ By ROBERT MURRAY, C.E. Eighth Edition, thoroughly Revised, with considerable Additions by the Author and by GEORGE CARLISLE, C.E., Senior Surveyor to the Board of Trade at Liverpool. 12mo, 5_s._ cloth boards.
"Well adapted to give the young steamship engineer or marine engine and boiler maker a general introduction into his practical work."--_Mechanical World._
"We feel sure that this thoroughly revised edition will continue to be as popular in the future as it has been in the past, as, for its size, it contains more useful information than any similar treatise."--_Industries._
"As a compendious and useful guide to engineers of our mercantile and royal naval services, we should say it cannot be surpassed."--_Building News._
"The information given is both sound and sensible, and well qualified to direct young sea-going hands on the straight road to the extra chief's certificate.... Most useful to surveyors, inspectors, draughtsmen, and young engineers."--_Glasgow Herald._
_=Pocket-Book for Marine Engineers.=_
_A POCKET-BOOK OF USEFUL TABLES AND FORMULÆ FOR MARINE ENGINEERS._ By FRANK PROCTOR, A.I.N.A, Third Edition. Royal 32mo, leather, gilt edges, with strap, 4_s._
"We recommend it to our readers as going far to supply a long-felt want."--_Naval Science._
"A most useful companion to all marine engineers."--_United Service Gazette._
_=Introduction to Marine Engineering.=_
_ELEMENTARY ENGINEERING: A Manual for Young Marine Engineers and Apprentices._ In the Form of Questions and Answers on Metals, Alloys, Strength of Materials, Construction and Management of Marine Engines and Boilers, Geometry, &c. &c. With an Appendix of Useful Tables. By JOHN SHERREN BREWER, Government Marine Surveyor, Hong-Kong. Second Edition, Revised. Small crown 8vo, 2_s._ cloth.
"Contains much valuable information for the class for whom it is intended, especially in the chapters on the management of boilers and engines."--_Nautical Magazine._
"A useful introduction to the more elaborate text-books."--_Scotsman._
"To a student who has the requisite desire and resolve to attain a thorough knowledge, Mr. Brewer offers decidedly useful help."--_Athenæum._
_=Navigation.=_
_PRACTICAL NAVIGATION._ Consisting of THE SAILOR'S SEA-BOOK, by JAMES GREENWOOD and W. H. ROSSER; together with the requisite Mathematical and Nautical Tables for the Working of the Problems, by HENRY LAW, C.E., and Professor J. R. YOUNG. Illustrated. 12mo, 7_s._ strongly half-bound.
_=Drawing for Marine Engineers.=_
_LOCKIE'S MARINE ENGINEER'S DRAWING-BOOK._ Adapted to the Requirements of the Board of Trade Examinations. By JOHN LOCKIE, C.E. With 22 Plates, Drawn to Scale. Royal 3vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The student who learns from these drawings will have nothing to unlearn."--_Engineer._
"The examples chosen are essentially practical, and are such as should prove of service to engineers generally, while admirably fulfilling their specific purpose."--_Mechanical World._
_=Sailmaking.=_
_THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SAILMAKING._ By SAMUEL B. SADLER. Practical Sailmaker, late in the employment of Messrs. Ratsey and Lapthorne, of Cowes and Gosport. With Plates and other Illustrations. Small 4to, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
CHAP. I. THE MATERIALS USED AND THEIR RELATION TO SAILS.--II. ON THE CENTRE OF EFFORT.--III. ON MEASURING.--IV. ON DRAWING.--V. ON THE NUMBER OF CLOTHS REQUIRED.--VI. ON ALLOWANCES.--VII. CALCULATION OF GORES.--VIII. ON CUTTING OUT.--IX. ON ROPING.--X. ON DIAGONAL-CUT SAILS.--XI. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
"This work is very ably written, and is illustrated by diagrams and carefully worked calculations. The work should be in the hands of every sailmaker, whether employer or employed, as it cannot fail to assist them in the pursuit of their important avocations."--_Isle of Wight Herald._
"This extremely practical work gives a complete education in all the branches of the manufacture, cutting out, roping, seaming, and goring. It is copiously illustrated, and will form a first-rate text-book and guide."--_Portsmouth Times._
"The author of this work has rendered a distinct service to all interested in the art of sailmaking. The subject of which he treats is a congenial one. Mr. Sadler is a practical sailmaker, and has devoted years of careful observation and study to the subject; and the results of the experience thus gained he has set forth in the volume before us."--_Steamship._
_=Chain Cables.=_
_CHAIN CABLES AND CHAINS._ Comprising Sizes and Curves of Links, Studs, &c., Iron for Cables and Chains, Chain Cable and Chain Making, Forming and Welding Links, Strength of Cables and Chains, Certificates for Cables, Marking Cables, Prices of Chain Cables and Chains, Historical Notes, Acts of Parliament, Statutory Tests, Charges for Testing, List of Manufacturers of Cables, &c. &c. By THOMAS W. TRAILL, F.E.R.N., M. Inst. C.E., Engineer Surveyor in Chief, Board of Trade, Inspector of Chain Cable and Anchor Proving Establishments, and General Superintendent, Lloyd's Committee on Proving Establishments. With numerous Tables, Illustrations and Lithographic Drawings. Folio, £2 2_s._ cloth, bevelled boards.
"It contains a vast amount of valuable Information. Nothing seems to be wanting to make it a complete and standard work of reference on the subject."--_Nautical Magazine._
MINING AND METALLURGY.
_=Mining Machinery.=_
_MACHINERY FOR METALLIFEROUS MINES_: A Practical Treatise for Mining Engineers, Metallurgists, and Managers of Mines. By E. HENRY DAVIES, M.E., F.G.S. Crown 8vo, 580 pp., with upwards of 300 Illustrations, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"Mr. Davies, in this handsome volume, has done the advanced student and the manager of mines good service. Almost every kind of machinery in actual use is carefully described, and the woodcuts and plates are good."--_Athenæum._
"From cover to cover the work exhibits all the same characteristics which excite the confidence and attract the attention of the student as he peruses the first page. The work may safely be recommended. By its publication the literature connected with the industry will be enriched, and the reputation of its author enhanced."--_Mining Journal._
"Mr. Davies has endeavoured to bring before his readers the best of everything in modern mining appliances. His work carries internal evidence of the author's impartiality, and this constitutes one of the great merits of the book. Throughout his work the criticisms are based on his own or other reliable experience."--_Iron and Steel Trades' Journal._
"The work deals with nearly every class of machinery or apparatus likely to be met with or required in connection with metalliferous mining, and is one which we have every confidence in recommending."--_Practical Engineer._
_=Metalliferous Minerals and Mining.=_
_A TREATISE ON METALLIFEROUS MINERALS AND MINING._ By D. C. DAVIES, F.G.S., Mining Engineer, &c., Author of "A Treatise on Slate and Slate Quarrying." Fifth Edition, thoroughly Revised and much Enlarged, by his Son, E. HENRY DAVIES, M.E., F.G.S. With about 150 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Neither the practical miner nor the general reader interested in mines can have a better book for his companion and his guide."--_Mining Journal._
"We are doing our readers a service in calling their attention to this valuable work."--_Mining World._
"A book that will not only be useful to the geologist, the practical miner, and the metallurgist, but also very interesting to the general public."--_Iron._
"As a history of the present state of mining throughout the world this book has a real value, end it supplies an actual want."--_Athenæum._
_=Earthy Minerals and Mining.=_
_A TREATISE ON EARTHY & OTHER MINERALS AND MINING._ By D. C. DAVIES, F.G.S., Author of "Metalliferous Minerals," &c. Third Edition, revised and Enlarged, by his Son, E. HENRY DAVIES, M.E., F.G.S. With about 100 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"We do not remember to have met with any English work on mining matters that contains the same amount of information packed in equally convenient form."--_Academy._
"We should be inclined to rank it as among the very best of the handy technical and trades manuals which have recently appeared."--_British Quarterly Review._
_=Metalliferous Mining in the United Kingdom.=_
_BRITISH MINING: A Treatise on the History,Discovery, Practical Development, and Future Prospects of Metalliferous Mines in the United Kingdom._ By ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S., Editor of "Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines," &c. Upwards of 950 pp., with 230 Illustrations. Second Edition, Revised. Super-royal 8vo, £2 2_s._ cloth.
"One of the most valuable works of reference of modern times. Mr. Hunt, as Keeper of Mining Records of the United Kingdom, has had opportunities for such a task not enjoyed by anyone else, and has evidently made the most of them.... The language and style adopted are good, and the treatment of the various subjects laborious, conscientious, and scientific."--_Engineering._
"The book is, in fact, a treasure-house of statistical information on mining subjects, and we know of no other work embodying so great a mass of matter of this kind. Were this the only merit of Mr. Hunt's volume, it would be sufficient to render it indispensable in the library of everyone interested in the development of the mining and metallurgical industries of this Country.--_Athenæum._
"A mass of Information not elsewhere available, and of the greatest value to those who may be interested in our great mineral industries."--_Engineer._
_=Underground Pumping Machinery.=_
_MINE DRAINAGE._ Being a Complete and Practical Treatise on Direct-Acting Underground Steam Pumping Machinery, with a Description of a large number of the best known Engines, their General Utility and the Special Sphere of their Action, the Mode of their Application, and their merits compared with other forms of Pumping Machinery. By STEPHEN MICHELL. 8vo, 15_s_. cloth.
"Will be highly esteemed by colliery owners and lessees, mining engineers, and students generally who require to be acquainted with the best means of securing the drainage of mines. It is a most valuable work, and stands almost alone in the literature of steam pumping machinery."--_Colliery Guardian._
"Much valuable Information is given, so that the book is thoroughly worthy of an extensive circulation amongst practical men and purchasers of machinery."'--_Mining Journal._
_=Prospecting for Gold and other Metals.=_
_THE PROSPECTOR'S HANDBOOK_: A Guide for the Prospector and Traveller in Search of Metal-Bearing or other Valuable Minerals. By J. W. ANDERSON, M.A. (Camb.), F.R.G.S., Author of "Fiji and New Caledonia." Fifth Edition, thoroughly Revised and Enlarged. Small crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Will supply a much felt want, especially among Colonists, in whose way are so often thrown many mineralogical specimens the value of which it is difficult to determine."--_Engineer._
"How to find commercial minerals, and how to identify them when they are found, are the leading points to which attention is directed. The author has managed to pack as much practical detail into his pages as would supply material for a book three times its size."--_Mining Journal._
_=Mining Notes and Formulæ.=_
_NOTES AND FORMULÆ FOR MINING STUDENTS._ By JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE, M.A., Certificated Colliery Manager, Professor of Mining in the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Small crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Invaluable to anyone who is working up for an examination on mining subjects."--_Iron and Coal Trades Review._
"The author has done his work in an exceedingly creditable manner, and has produced a book that will be of service to students, and those who are practically engaged in mining operations."--_Engineer._
_=Handybook for Miners.=_
_THE MINER'S HANDBOOK_: A Handybook of Reference on the Subjects of Mineral Deposits, Mining Operations, Ore Dressing, &c. For the Use of Students and others interested in Mining matters. Compiled by JOHN MILNE, F.R.S., Professor of Mining in the Imperial University of Japan. Square 18mo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"Professor Milne's handbook is sure to be received with favour by all connected with mining, and will be extremely popular among students."--_Athenæum._
_=Miners' and Metallurgists' Pocket-Book.=_
_A POCKET-BOOK FOR MINERS AND METALLURGISTS._ Comprising Rules, Formulæ, Tables, and Notes, for Use in Field and Office Work. By F. DANVERS POWER, F.G.S., M.E. Fcap. 8vo, 9_s._ leather, gilt edges.
"This excellent book is an admirable example of its kind, and ought to find a large sale amongst English-speaking prospectors and mining engineers."--_Engineering._
"Miners and metallurgists will find in this work a useful vade-mecum containing a mass of rules, formulæ, tables, and various other information, the necessity for reference to which occurs in. their daily duties."--_Iron._
_=Mineral Surveying and Valuing.=_
_THE MINERAL SURVEYOR AND VALUER'S COMPLETE GUIDE, comprising a Treatise on Improved Mining Surveying and the Valuation of Mining Properties, with New Traverse Tables._ By WM. LINTERN. Third Edition, Enlarged. 12mo, 4_s._ cloth.
"Mr. Lintern's book forms a valuable and thoroughly trustworthy guide."--_Iron and Coal Trades Review._
_=Asbestos and its Uses.=_
_ASBESTOS: Its Properties, Occurrence, and Uses._ With some Account of the Mines of Italy and Canada. By ROBERT H. JONES. With Eight Collotype Plates and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"An interesting and invaluable work."--_Colliery Guardian._
_=Explosives.=_
_A HANDBOOK ON MODERN EXPLOSIVES._ Being a Practical Treatise on the Manufacture and Application of Dynamite, Gun-Cotton, Nitro-Glycerine, and other Explosive Compounds. Including the Manufacture of Collodion-Cotton. By M. EISSLER, Mining Engineer and Metallurgical Chemist, Author of "The Metallurgy of Gold," "The Metallurgy of Silver," &c. With about 100 Illusts. Crown 8vo, 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Useful not only to the miner, but also to officers of both services to whom blasting and the use of explosives generally may at any time become a necessary auxiliary."--_Nature._
"A veritable mine of information on the subject of explosives employed for military, mining, and blasting purposes."--_Army and Navy Gazette._
_=Colliery Management.=_
_THE COLLIERY MANAGER'S HANDBOOK_: A Comprehensive Treatise on the Laying-out and Working of Collieries, Designed as a Book of Reference for Colliery Managers, and for the Use of Coal-Mining Students preparing for First-class Certificates. By CALEB PAMELY, Mining Engineer and Surveyor; Member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; and Member of the South Wales Institute of Mining Engineers. With nearly 500 Plans, Diagrams, and other Illustrations. Second Edition, Revised, with Additions. Medium 8vo, about 700 pages. Price £1 5_s._ strongly bound.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
GEOLOGY.--SEARCH FOR COAL.--MINERAL LEASES AND OTHER HOLDINGS.--SHAFT SINKING.--FITTING UP THE SHAFT AND SURFACE ARRANGEMENTS.--STEAM BOILERS AND THEIR FITTINGS.--TIMBERING AND WALLING.--NARROW WORK AND METHODS OF WORKING.--UNDERGROUND CONVEYANCE.--DRAINAGE.--THE GASES MET WITH IN MINES; VENTILATION.--ON THE FRICTION OF AIR IN MINES.--THE PRIESTMAN OIL ENGINE; PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS.--SURVEYING AND PLANNING.--SAFETY LAMPS AND FIRE-DAMP DETECTORS.--SUNDRY AND INCIDENTAL OPERATIONS AND APPLIANCES.--COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS.--MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS.
_Appendix_: SUMMARY OF REPORT OF H.M. COMMISSIONERS ON ACCIDENTS IN MINES.
*** OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"Mr. Pamely has not only given us a comprehensive reference book of a very high order, suitable to the requirements of mining-engineers and colliery managers, but at the same time has provided mining students with a class-book that is as interesting as it is instructive."--_Colliery Manager._
"Mr. Pamely's work is eminently suited to the purpose for which it is intended--being clear, interesting, exhaustive, rich in detail, and up to date, giving descriptions of the very latest machines in every department.... A mining engineer could scarcely go wrong who followed this work."--_Colliery Guardian._
"This is the most complete 'all round' work on coal-mining published in the English language.... No library of coal-mining books is complete without it."--_Colliery Engineer_ (Scranton, Pa., U.S.A.).
"Mr. Pamely's work is in all respects worthy of our admiration. No person in any responsible position connected with mines should be without a copy."--_Westminster Review._
_=Coal and Iron.=_
_THE COAL AND IRON INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM._ Comprising a Description of the Coal Fields, and of the Principal Seams of Coal, with Returns of their Produce and its Distribution, and Analyses of Special Varieties. Also an Account of the occurrence of Iron Ores in Veins or Seams; Analyses of each Variety; and a History of the Rise and Progress of Pig Iron Manufacture. By RICHARD MEADE, Assistant Keeper of Mining Records. With Maps. 8vo, £1 8_s._ cloth.
"The book is one which must find a place on the shelves of all interested in coal and iron production, and in the iron, steel and other metallurgical industries."--_Engineer._
"Of this book we may unreservedly say that it is the best of its class which we have ever met.... A book of reference which no one engaged in the iron or coal trades should omit from his library."--_Iron and Coal Trades Review._
_=Coal Mining.=_
_COAL AND COAL MINING: A Rudimentary Treatise on._ By the late Sir WARINGTON W. SMYTH, M.A., F.R.S., &c., Chief Inspector of the Mines of the Crown. Seventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo, 4_s._ cloth boards.
"As an outline is given of every known coal-field in this and other countries, as well as of the principal methods of working, the book will doubtless interest a very large number of readers."--_Mining Journal._
_=Subterraneous Surveying.=_
_SUBTERRANEOUS SURVEYING, Elementary and Practical Treatise on_, with and without the Magnetic Needle. By THOMAS FENWICK, Surveyor of Mines, and THOMAS BAKER, C.E. Illust. 12mo, 3_s._ cloth boards.
_=Granite Quarrying.=_
_GRANITES AND OUR GRANITE INDUSTRIES._ By GEORGE F. HARRIS, F.G.S., Membre de la Société Belge de Géologie, Lecturer on Economic Geology at the Birkbeck Institution, &c. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A clearly and well-written manual on the granite industry."--_Scotsman._
"An interesting work, which will be deservedly esteemed."--_Colliery Guardian._
"An exceedingly interesting and valuable monograph on a subject which has hitherto received unaccountably little attention in the shape of systematic literary treatment."--_Scottish Leader._
_=Gold, Metallurgy of.=_
_THE METALLURGY OF GOLD_: A Practical Treatise on the Metallurgical Treatment of Gold-bearing Ores. Including the Processes of Concentration and Chlorination, and the Assaying, Melting, and Refining of Gold. By M. EISSLER, Mining Engineer and Metallurgical Chemist, formerly Assistant Assayer of the U. S. Mint, San Francisco. Third Edition, Revised and greatly Enlarged. With 187 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This book thoroughly deserves its title of a 'Practical Treatise.' The whole process of gold milling, from the breaking of the quartz to the assay of the bullion, is described in clear and orderly narrative and with much, but not too much, fulness of detail."--_Saturday Review._
"The work is a storehouse of information and valuable data, and we strongly recommend it to all professional men engaged in the gold-mining industry."--_Mining Journal._
_=Silver, Metallurgy of.=_
_THE METALLURGY OF SILVER_: A Practical Treatise on the Amalgamation, Roasting, and Lixiviation of Silver Ores. Including the Assaying, Melting and Refining, of Silver Bullion. By M. EISSLER, Author of "The Metallurgy of Gold," &c. Second Edition, Enlarged. With 150 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A practical treatise, and a technical work which we are convinced will supply a long-felt want amongst practical men, and at the same time be of value to students and others indirectly connected with the industries."--_Mining Journal._
"From first to last the book is thoroughly sound and reliable."--_Colliery Guardian._
"For chemists, practical miners, assayers, and investors alike, we do not know of any work on the subject so handy and yet so comprehensive."--_Glasgow Herald._
_=Lead, Metallurgy of.=_
_THE METALLURGY OF ARGENTIFEROUS LEAD_: A Practical Treatise on the Smelting of Silver-Lead Ores and the Refining of Lead Bullion. Including Reports on various Smelting Establishments and Descriptions of Modern Smelting Furnaces and Plants in Europe and America. By M. EISSLER, M.E., Author of "The Metallurgy of Gold," &c. Crown 8vo, 400 pp., with 183 Illustrations, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The numerous metallurgical processes, which are fully and extensively treated of, embrace all the stages experienced in the passage of the lead from the various natural states to its issue from the refinery as an article of commerce."--_Practical Engineer._
"The present volume fully maintains the reputation of the author. Those who wish to obtain a thorough insight into the present state of this industry cannot do better than read this volume, and all mining engineers cannot fail to find many useful hints and suggestions in it."--_Industries._
"It is most carefully written and illustrated with capital drawings and diagrams. In fact, it is the work of an expert for experts, by whom it will be prized as an indispensable text-book."--_Bristol Mercury._
_=Iron, Metallurgy of.=_
_METALLURGY OF IRON._ Containing History of Iron Manufacture, Methods of Assay, and Analyses of Iron Ores, Processes of Manufacture of Iron and Steel, &c. By H. BAUERMAN, F.G.S., A.R.S.M. With numerous Illustrations. Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 12mo, 5_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Carefully written, it has the merit of brevity and conciseness, as to less important points, while all material matters are very fully and thoroughly entered into."--_Standard._
_=Iron Mining.=_
_THE IRON ORES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND_: Their Mode of Occurrence, Age, and Origin, and the Methods of Searching for and Working them, with a Notice of some of the Iron Ores of Spain. By J. D. KENDALL, F.G.S., Mining Engineer. With Plates and Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 16_s._ cloth.
"The author has a thorough practical knowledge of his subject, and has supplemented a careful study of the available literature by unpublished information derived from his own observations. The result is a very useful volume which cannot fail to be of value to all interested in the iron industry of the country."--_Industries._
"Constitutes a systematic and careful account of our present knowledge of the origin and occurrence of the iron ores of Great Britain, and embraces a description of the means employed in reaching and working these ores."--_Iron._
"Mr. Kendall is a great authority on this subject and writes from personal observation."--_Colliery Guardian._
"Mr. Kendall's book is thoroughly well done. In it there are the outlines of the history of ore mining in every centre and there is everything that we want to know as to the character of the ores of each district, their commercial value and the cost of working them."--_Iron and Steel Trades Journal._
ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, etc.
_=Electrical Engineering.=_
_THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER'S POCKET-BOOK OF MODERN RULES, FORMULÆ, TABLES, AND DATA._ By H. R. KEMPE, M.Inst.E.E., A.M.Inst.C.E., Technical Officer, Postal Telegraphs, Author of "A Handbook of Electrical Testing," &c. Second Edition, thoroughly Revised, with Additions. With numerous Illustrations. Royal 32mo, oblong, 5_s._ leather.
"There is very little in the shape of formulæ or data which the electrician is likely to want in a hurry which cannot be found in its pages."--_Practical Engineer._
"A very useful book of reference for daily use in practical electrical engineering and its various applications to the industries of the present day."--_Iron._
"It is the best book of its kind."--_Electrical Engineer._
"Well arranged and compact. The 'Electrical Engineer's Pocket-Book' is a good one."--_Electrician._
"Strongly recommended to those engaged in the various electrical industries."--_Electrical Review._
_=Electric Lighting.=_
_ELECTRIC LIGHT FITTING_: A Handbook for Working Electrical Engineers, embodying Practical Notes on Installation Management. By JOHN W. URQUHART, Electrician, Author of "Electric Light," &c. With numerous Illustrations. Second Edition, Revised, with Additional Chapters. Crown 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"This volume deals with what may be termed the mechanics of electric lighting, and is addressed to men who are already engaged in the work or are training for it. The work traverses a great deal of ground, and may be read as a sequel to the same author's useful work on 'Electric Light.'"--_Electrician._
"This is an attempt to state in the simplest language the precautions which should be adopted in installing the electric light, and to give information, for the guidance of those who have to run the plant when installed. The book is well worth the perusal of the workmen for whom it is written."--_Electrical Review._
"We have read this book with a good deal of pleasure. We believe that the book will be of use to practical workmen, who will not be alarmed by finding mathematical formulæ which they are unable to understand."--_Electrical Plant._
"Eminently practical and useful.... Ought to be in the hands of everyone in charge of an electric light plant."--_Electrical Engineer._
"Mr. Urquhart has succeeded in producing a really capital book, which we have no hesitation in recommending to the notice of working electricians and electrical engineers."--_Mechanical World._
_=Electric Light.=_
_ELECTRIC LIGHT: Its Production and Use._ Embodying Plain Directions for the Treatment of Dynamo-Electric Machines, Batteries, Accumulators, and Electric Lamps. By J. W. URQUHART, C.E., Author of "Electric Light Fitting," "Electroplating," &c. Fifth Edition, carefully Revised, with Large Additions and 145 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The whole ground of electric lighting is more or less covered and explained in a very clear and concise manner."--_Electrical Review._
"Contains a good deal of very interesting information, especially in the parts where the author gives dimensions and working costs."--_Electrical Engineer._
"A miniature _vade-mecum_ of the salient facts connected with the science of electric lighting."--_Electrician._
"You cannot for your purpose have a better book than 'Electric Light,' by Urquhart."--_Engineer._
"The book is by far the best that we have yet met with on the subject."--_Athenæum._
_=Construction of Dynamos.=_
_DYNAMO CONSTRUCTION: A Practical Handbook for the Use of Engineer Constructors and Electricians-in-Charge._ Embracing Framework Building, Field Magnet and Armature Winding and Grouping, Compounding, &c. With Examples of leading English, American, and Continental Dynamos and Motors. By J. W. URQUHART, Author of "Electric Light," "Electric Light Fitting," &c. With upwards of 100 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Mr. Urquhart's book is the first one which deals with these matters in such a way that the engineering student can understand them. The book is very readable, and the author leads his readers up to difficult subjects by reasonably simple tests."--_Engineering Review._
"The author deals with his subject in a style so popular as to make his volume a handbook of great practical value to engineer contractors and electricians in charge of lighting installations."--_Scotsman._
"'Dynamo Construction' more than sustains the high character of the author's previous publications. It is sure to be widely read by the large and rapidly-increasing number of practical electricians."--_Glasgow Herald._
"A book for which a demand has long existed."--_Mechanical World._
_=A New Dictionary of Electricity.=_
_THE STANDARD ELECTRICAL DICTIONARY._ A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering. Containing upwards of 3,000 Definitions. By T. O'CONNOR SLOANE, A.M., Ph.D., Author of "The Arithmetic of Electricity," &c. Crown 8vo, 630 pp., 350 Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"The work has many attractive features in it, and is beyond doubt, a well put together and useful publication. The amount of ground covered may be gathered from the fact that in the index about 5,000 references will be found. The inclusion of such comparatively modern words as 'impedence,' 'reluctance,' &c., shows that the author has desired to be up to date, and indeed there are other indications of carefulness of compilation. The work is one which does the author great credit and it should prove of great value, especially to students."--_Electrical Review._
"We have found the book very complete and reliable, and can, therefore, commend it heartily."--_Mechanical World._
"Very complete and contains a large amount of useful information."--_Industries._
"An encyclopædia of electrical science in the compass of a dictionary. The information given is sound and clear. The book is well printed, well illustrated, and well up to date, and may be confidently recommended."--_Builder._
"We hail the appearance of this little work as one which will meet a want that has been keenly felt for some time.... The author is to be congratulated on the excellent manner in which he has accomplished his task."--_Practical Engineer._
"The volume is excellently printed and illustrated, and should form part of the library of every one who is directly or indirectly connected with electrical matters."--_Hardware Trade Journal._
_=Electric Lighting of Ships.=_
_ELECTRIC SHIP-LIGHTING_: A Handbook on the Practical Fitting and Running of Ship's Electrical Plant. For the Use of Shipowners and Builders, Marine Electricians, and Sea-going Engineers-in-Charge. By J. W. URQUHART, C.E., Author of "Electric Light," &c. With 88 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The subject of ship electric lighting is one of vast importance in these days, and Mr. Urquhart is to be highly complimented for placing such a valuable work at the service of the practical marine electrician."--_The Steamship._
"Distinctly a book which of its kind stands almost alone, and for which there should be a demand."--_Electrical Review._
_=Electric Lighting.=_
_THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRIC LIGHTING._ By ALAN A. CAMPBELL SWINTON, Associate I.E.E. Third Edition, Enlarged and Revised. With 16 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 1_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Anyone who desires a short and thoroughly clear exposition of the elementary principles of electric lighting cannot do better than read this little work."--_Bradford Observer._
_=Dynamic Electricity.=_
_THE ELEMENTS OF DYNAMIC ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM._ By PHILIP ATKINSON, A.M., Ph.D., Author of "Elements of Static Electricity," "The Elements of Electric Lighting," &c. &c. Crown 8vo, 417 pp., with 120 Illustrations, 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
_=Electric Motors, &c.=_
_THE ELECTRIC TRANSFORMATION OF POWER_ and its Application by the Electric Motor, including Electric Railway Construction. By P. ATKINSON, A.M., Ph.D., Author of "The Elements of Electric Lighting," &c. With 96 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
_=Dynamo Construction.=_
_HOW TO MAKE A DYNAMO: A Practical Treatise for Amateurs._ Containing numerous Illustrations and Detailed Instructions for Constructing a Small Dynamo, to Produce the Electric Light. By ALFRED CROFTS. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ cloth.
"The instructions given in this unpretentious little book are sufficiently clear and explicit to enable any amateur mechanic possessed of average skill and the usual tools to be found in an amateur's workshop, to build a practical dynamo machine."--_Electrician._
_=Text Book of Electricity.=_
_THE STUDENT'S TEXT-BOOK OF ELECTRICITY._ By HENRY M. NOAD, Ph.D., F.R.S. New Edition, carefully Revised. With Introduction and Additional Chapters, by W. H. PREECE, M.I.C.E. Crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
_=Electricity.=_
_A MANUAL OF ELECTRICITY: Including Galvanism, Magnetism, Dia-Magnetism, Electro-Dynamics._ By HENRY M. NOAD, Ph.D., F.R.S. Fourth Edition (1859). 8vo, £1 4_s._ cloth.
ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING, etc.
_=Building Construction.=_
_PRACTICAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION_: A Handbook for Students Preparing for Examinations, and a Book of Reference for Persons Engaged in Building. By JOHN PARNELL ALLEN, Surveyor, Lecturer on Building Construction at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Medium 8vo, 450 pages, with 1,000 Illustrations. 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"This volume is one of the most complete expositions of building construction we have seen. It contains all that is necessary to prepare students for the various examinations in building construction."--_Building News._
"The author depends nearly as much on his diagrams as on his type. The pages suggest the hand of a man of experience in building operations--and the volume must be a blessing to many teachers as well as to students."--_The Architect._
"This volume promises to be the recognised handbook in all advanced classes where building construction is taught from a practical point of view. We strongly commend the book to the notice of all teachers of building construction."--_Technical World._
"The work is sure to prove a formidable rival to great and small competitors alike, and bids fair to take a permanent place as a favourite students' text-book. The large number of illustrations deserve particular mention for the great merit they possess for purposes of reference, in exactly corresponding to convenient scales."--_Jour. Inst. Brit. Archts._
_=Concrete.=_
_CONCRETE: ITS NATURE AND USES._ A Book for Architects, Builders, Contractors, and Clerks of Works. By GEORGE L. SUTCLIFFE, A.R.I.B.A. 350 pages, with numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"The author treats a difficult subject in a lucid manner. The manual fills a long-felt gap. It is careful and exhaustive; equally useful as a student's guide and a architect's book of reference."--_Journal of Royal Institution of British Architects._
"There is room for this new book, which will probably be for some time the standard work on the subject for a builder's purpose."--_Glasgow Herald._
"A thoroughly useful and comprehensive work."--_British Architect._
_=Mechanics for Architects.=_
_THE MECHANICS OF ARCHITECTURE_: A Treatise on Applied Mechanics, especially Adapted to the Use of Architects. By E. W. TARN, M.A., Author of "The Science of Building," &c. Second Edition, Enlarged. Illust. with 125 Diagrams. Cr. 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"The book is a very useful and helpful manual of architectural mechanics, and really contains sufficient to enable a careful and painstaking student to grasp the principles bearing upon the majority of building problems.... Mr. Tarn has added, by this volume, to the debt of gratitude which is owing to him by architectural students for the many valuable works which he has produced for their use."--_The Builder._
"The mechanics in the volume are really mechanics, and are harmoniously wrought in with the distinctive professional manner proper to the subject. The diagrams and type are commendably clear."--_The Schoolmaster._
_=The New Builder's Price Book, 1894.=_
_LOCKWOOD'S BUILDER'S PRICE BOOK FOR 1894._ A Comprehensive Handbook of the Latest Prices and Data for Builders, Architects, Engineers, and Contractors. _Re-constructed, Re-written, and Greatly Enlarged._ By FRANCIS T. W. MILLER. 700 closely-printed pages, crown 8vo, 4_s._ cloth.
"This book is a very useful one, and should find a place in every English office connected with the building and engineering professions."--_Industries._
"An excellent book of reference."--_Architect._
"In its new and revised form this Price Book is what a work of this kind should be--comprehensive, reliable, well arranged, legible, and well bound."--_British Architect._
_=Designing Buildings.=_
_THE DESIGN OF BUILDINGS_: Being Elementary Notes on the Planning, Sanitation and Ornamentive Formation of Structures, based on Modern Practice. Illustrated with Nine Folding Plates. By W. WOODLEY, Assistant Master, Metropolitan Drawing Classes, &c. Demy 8vo, 6_s._ cloth.
[_Just published._
_=Sir Wm. Chambers's Treatise on Civil Architecture.=_
_THE DECORATIVE PART OF CIVIL ARCHITECTURE._ By Sir WILLIAM CHAMBERS, F.R.S. With Portrait, Illustrations, Notes, and an Examination of Grecian Architecture, by JOSEPH GWILT, F.S.A. Revised and Edited by W. H. LEEDS. 66 Plates, 4to, 21_s._ cloth.
_=Villa Architecture.=_
_A HANDY BOOK OF VILLA ARCHITECTURE: Being a Series of Designs for Villa Residences in various Styles._ With Outline Specifications and Estimates. By C. WICKES, Architect, Author of "The Spires and Towers of England," &c. 61 Plates, 4to, £1 11_s._ 6_d._ half-morocco.
"The whole of the designs bear evidence of their being the work of an artistic architect, and they will prove very valuable and suggestive."--_Building News._
_=Text-Book for Architects.=_
_THE ARCHITECT'S GUIDE: Being a Text-Book of Useful Information for Architects, Engineers, Surveyors, Contractors, Clerks of Works, &c. &c._ By FREDERICK ROGERS, Architect. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"As a text-book of useful information for architects, engineers, surveyors, &c., it would be hard to find a handier or more complete little volume."--_Standard._
_=Taylor and Cresy's Rome.=_
_THE ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF ROME._ By the late G. L. TAYLOR, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., and EDWARD CRESY, Esq. New Edition, thoroughly Revised by the Rev. ALEXANDER TAYLOR, M.A. (son of the late G. L. Taylor, Esq.), Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and Chaplain of Gray's Inn. Large folio, with 130 Plates, £3 3_s._ half-bound.
"Taylor and Cresy's work has from its first publication been ranked among those professional books which cannot be bettered."--_Architect._
_=Linear Perspective.=_
_ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVE_: The whole Course and Operations of the Draughtsman in Drawing a Large House in Linear Perspective. Illustrated by 39 Folding Plates. By F. O. FERGUSON. 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ boards.
"It is the most intelligible of the treatises on this ill-treated subject that I have met with."--E. INGRESS BELL, Esq., in the _R.I.B.A. Journal_.
_=Architectural Drawing.=_
_PRACTICAL RULES ON DRAWING, for the Operative Builder and Young Student in Architecture._ By GEORGE PYNE. With 14 Plates, 4to, 7_s._ 6_d._ boards.
_=Vitruvius' Architecture.=_
_THE ARCHITECTURE of MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO._ Translated by JOSEPH GWILT, F.S.A., F.R.A.S. New Edition, Revised by the Translator. With 23 Plates. Fcap. 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
_=Designing, Measuring, and Valuing.=_
_THE STUDENT'S GUIDE to the PRACTICE of MEASURING AND VALUING ARTIFICERS' WORK._ Containing Directions for taking Dimensions, Abstracting the same, and bringing the Quantities into Bill, with Tables of Constants for Valuation of Labour, and for the Calculation of Areas and Solidities. Originally edited by EDWARD DOBSON, Architect. With Additions by E. WYNDHAM TARN, M.A. Sixth Edition. With 8 Plates and 63 Woodcuts. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This edition will be found the most complete treatise on the principles of measuring and valuing artificers' work that has yet been published."--_Building News._
_=Pocket Estimator and Technical Guide.=_
_THE POCKET TECHNICAL GUIDE, MEASURER, AND ESTIMATOR FOR BUILDERS AND SURVEYORS._ Containing Technical Directions for Measuring Work in all the Building Trades, Complete Specifications for Houses, Roads, and Drains, and an easy Method of Estimating the parts of a Building collectively. By A. C. BEATON. Sixth Edit. Waistcoat-pocket size, 1_s._ 6_d._ leather, gilt edges.
"No builder, architect, surveyor, or valuer should be without his 'Beaton.'"--_Building News._
_=Donaldson on Specifications.=_
_THE HANDBOOK OF SPECIFICATIONS_; or, Practical Guide to the Architect, Engineer, Surveyor, and Builder, in drawing up Specifications and Contracts for Works and Constructions. Illustrated by Precedents of Buildings actually executed by eminent Architects and Engineers. By Professor T. L. DONALDSON, P.R.I.B.A., &c. New Edition. 8vo, with upwards of 1,000 pages of Text, and 33 Plates. £1 11_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Valuable as a record, and more valuable still as a book of precedents.... Suffice it to say that Donaldson's 'Handbook of Specifications' must be bought by all architects."--_Builder._
_=Bartholomew and Rogers' Specifications.=_
_SPECIFICATIONS FOR PRACTICAL ARCHITECTURE._ A Guide to the Architect, Engineer, Surveyor, and Builder. With an Essay on the Structure and Science of Modern Buildings. Upon the Basis of the Work by ALFRED BARTHOLOMEW, thoroughly Revised, Corrected, and greatly added to by FREDERICK ROGERS, Architect. Third Edition, Revised, with Additions. With numerous Illustrations. Medium 8vo, 15_s._ cloth.
"The collection of specifications prepared by Mr. Rogers on the basis of Bartholomew's work is too well known to need any recommendation from us. It is one of the books with which every young architect must be equipped."--_Architect._
_=Construction.=_
_THE SCIENCE OF BUILDING: An Elementary Treatise on the Principles of Construction._ By E. WYNDHAM TARN, M.A., Architect. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With 59 Engravings. Fcap. 8vo, 4_s._ cl.
"A very valuable book, which we strongly recommend to all students."--_Builder._
_=House Building and Repairing.=_
_THE HOUSE-OWNER'S ESTIMATOR_; or, What will it Cost to Build, Alter, or Repair? A Price Book for Unprofessional People, as well as the Architectural Surveyor and Builder. By JAMES D. SIMON. Edited by FRANCIS T. W. MILLER, A.R.I.B.A. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"In two years it will repay its cost a hundred times over."--_Field._
_=Cottages and Villas.=_
_COUNTRY AND SUBURBAN COTTAGES AND VILLAS_: How to Plan and Build Them. Containing 33 Plates, with Introduction, General Explanations, and Description of each Plate. By JAMES W. BOGUE, Architect, Author of "Domestic Architecture," &c. 4to, 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
_=Building; Civil and Ecclesiastical.=_
_A BOOK ON BUILDING, Civil and Ecclesiastical_, including Church Restoration; with the Theory of Domes and the Great Pyramid, &c. By Sir EDMUND BECKETT, Bart., LL.D., F.R.A.S. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"A book which is always amusing and nearly always instructive."--_Times._
_=Sanitary Houses, etc.=_
_THE SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS OF DWELLING-HOUSES._ By A. J. WALLIS TAYLER, A.M. Inst. C.E. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations. Price about 3_s._ cloth.
[_Nearly ready._
_=Ventilation of Buildings.=_
_VENTILATION. A Text Book to the Practice of the Art of Ventilating Buildings._ By W. P. BUCHAN, R.P. 12mo, 4_s._ cloth.
"Contains a great amount of useful practical information, as thoroughly interesting as it is technically reliable."--_British Architect._
_=The Art of Plumbing.=_
_PLUMBING. A Text Book to the Practice of the Art or Craft of the Plumber._ By WILLIAM PATON BUCHAN, R.P. Sixth Edition, Enlarged. 12mo, 4_s._ cloth.
"A text-book which may be safely put in the hands of every young plumber."--_Builder._
_=Geometry for the Architect, Engineer, etc.=_
_PRACTICAL GEOMETRY, for the Architect, Engineer, and Mechanic._ Giving Rules for the Delineation and Application of various Geometrical Lines, Figures and Curves. By E. W. TARN, M.A., Architect. 8vo, 9_s._ cloth.
"No book with the same objects in view has ever been published in which the clearness of the rules laid down and the illustrative diagrams have been so satisfactory."--_Scotsman._
_=The Science of Geometry.=_
_THE GEOMETRY OF COMPASSES; or, Problems Resolved by the mere Description of Circles, and the use of Coloured Diagrams and Symbols._ By OLIVER BYRNE. Coloured Plates. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
CARPENTRY, TIMBER, etc.
_=Tredgold's Carpentry, Revised & Enlarged by Tarn.=_
_THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CARPENTRY._ A Treatise on the Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing, the Resistance of Timber, and the Construction of Floors, Arches, Bridges, Roofs, Uniting Iron and Stone with Timber, &c. To which is added an Essay on the Nature and Properties of Timber, &c., with Descriptions of the kinds of Wood used in Building; also numerous Tables of the Scantlings of Timber for different purposes, the Specific Gravities of Materials, &c. By THOMAS TREDGOLD, C.E. With an Appendix of Specimens of Various Roofs of Iron and Stone, Illustrated. Seventh Edition, thoroughly revised and considerably enlarged by E. WYNDHAM TARN, M.A., Author of "The Science of Building," &c. With 61 Plates, Portrait of the Author, and several Woodcuts. In One large Vol., 4to, price £1 5_s._ cloth.
"Ought to be in every architect's and every builder's library."--_Builder._
"A work whose monumental excellence must commend it wherever skilful carpentry is concerned. The author's principles are rather confirmed than impaired by time. The additional plates are of great intrinsic value."--_Building News._
_=Woodworking Machinery.=_
_WOODWORKING MACHINERY_: Its Rise, Progress, and Construction. With Hints on the Management of Saw Mills and the Economical Conversion of Timber. Illustrated with Examples of Recent Designs by leading English, French, and American Engineers. By M. POWIS BALE, A.M.Inst.C.E., M.I.M.E. Second Edition, Revised, with large Additions. Large crown 8vo, 440 pp., 9_s._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"Mr. Bale is evidently an expert on the subject and he has collected so much information that his book is all-sufficient for builders and others engaged in the conversion of timber."--_Architect._
"The most comprehensive compendium of wood-working machinery we have seen. The author is a thorough master of his subject."--_Building News._
_=Saw Mills.=_
_SAW MILLS_: Their Arrangement and Management, and the Economical Conversion of Timber. (A Companion Volume to "Woodworking Machinery.") By M. POWIS BALE. Crown 8vo, 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The _administration_ of a large sawing establishment is discussed, and the subject examined from a financial standpoint. Hence the size, shape, order, and disposition of saw-mills and the like are gone into in detail, and the course of the timber is traced from its reception to its delivery in its converted state. We could not desire a more complete or practical treatise."--_Builder._
_=Nicholson's Carpentry.=_
_THE CARPENTER'S NEW GUIDE_; or, Book of Lines for Carpenters; comprising all the Elementary Principles essential for acquiring a knowledge of Carpentry. Founded on the late PETER NICHOLSON'S Standard Work. New Edition, Revised by A. ASHPITEL, F.S.A. With Practical Rules on Drawing, by G. PYNE. With 74 Plates, 4to, £1 1_s._ cloth.
_=Handrailing and Stairbuilding.=_
_A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON HANDRAILING_: Showing New and Simple Methods for Finding the Pitch of the Plank, Drawing the Moulds, Bevelling, Jointing-up, and Squaring the Wreath. By GEORGE COLLINGS. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, to which is added A TREATISE ON STAIRBUILDING. 12mo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth limp.
"Will be found of practical utility in the execution of this difficult branch of joinery."--_Builder._
"Almost every difficult phase of this somewhat intricate branch of joinery is elucidated by the aid of plates and explanatory letterpress."--_Furniture Gazette._
_=Circular Work.=_
_CIRCULAR WORK IN CARPENTRY AND JOINERY_: A Practical Treatise on Circular Work of Single and Double Curvature. By GEORGE COLLINGS. With Diagrams. Second Edit, 12mo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth limp.
"An excellent example of what a book of this kind should be. Cheap in price, clear in definition and practical in the examples selected."--_Builder._
_=Handrailing.=_
_HANDRAILING COMPLETE IN EIGHT LESSONS._ On the Square-Cut System. By J. S. GOLDTHORP, Teacher of Geometry and Building Construction at the Halifax Mechanic's Institute. With Eight Plates and over 150 Practical Exercises. 4to, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Likely to be of considerable value to joiners and others who take a pride in good work. We heartily commend it to teachers and students."--_Timber Trades Journal._
_=Timber Merchant's Companion.=_
_THE TIMBER MERCHANT'S AND BUILDER'S COMPANION._ Containing New and Copious Tables of the Reduced Weight and Measurement of Deals and Battens, of all sizes, from One to a Thousand Pieces, and the relative Price that each size bears per Lineal Foot to any given Price per Petersburg Standard Hundred; the Price per Cube Foot of Square Timber to any given Price per Load of 50 Feet; the proportionate Value of Deals and Battens by the Standard, to Square Timber by the Load of 50 Feet; the readiest mode of ascertaining the Price of Scantling per Lineal Foot of any size, to any given Figure per Cube Foot, &c. &c. By WILLIAM DOWSING. Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected. Cr. 8vo, 3_s._ cl.
"Everything is as concise and clear as it can possibly be made. There can be no doubt that every timber merchant and builder ought to possess it."--_Hull Advertiser._
"We are glad to see a fourth edition of these admirable tables, which for correctness and simplicity of arrangement leave nothing to be desired."--_Timber Trades Journal._
_=Practical Timber Merchant.=_
_THE PRACTICAL TIMBER MERCHANT._ Being a Guide for the use of Building Contractors, Surveyors, Builders, &c., comprising useful Tables for all purposes connected with the Timber Trade, Marks of Wood, Essay on the Strength of Timber, Remarks on the Growth of Timber, &c. By W. RICHARDSON. Fcap. 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This handy manual contains much valuable information for the use of timber merchants, builders, foresters, and all others connected with the growth, sale, and manufacture of timber."--_Journal of Forestry._
_=Timber Freight Book.=_
_THE TIMBER MERCHANT'S, SAW MILLER'S, AND IMPORTER'S FREIGHT BOOK AND ASSISTANT._ Comprising Rules, Tables, and Memoranda relating to the Timber Trade. By WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Timber Broker; together with a Chapter on "SPEEDS OF SAW MILL MACHINERY," by M. POWIS BALE, M.I.M.E., &c. 12mo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cl. boards.
"A very useful manual of rules, tables, and memoranda relating to the timber trade. We recommend it as a compendium of calculation to all timber measurers and merchants, and as supplying a real want in the trade."--_Building News._
_=Packing-Case Makers, Tables for.=_
_PACKING-CASE TABLES_; showing the number of Superficial Feet in Boxes or Packing-Cases, from six inches square and upwards. By W. RICHARDSON, Timber Broker. Third Edition. Oblong 4to, 3_s._ 6_d._ cl.
"Invaluable labour-saving tables."--_Ironmonger._
"Will save much labour and calculation."--_Grocer._
_=Superficial Measurement.=_
_THE TRADESMAN'S GUIDE TO SUPERFICIAL MEASUREMENT._ Tables calculated from 1 to 200 inches in length, by 1 to 108 inches in breadth. For the use of Architects, Surveyors, Engineers, Timber Merchants, Builders, &c. By JAMES HAWKINGS. Fourth Edition. Fcap., 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A useful collection of tables to facilitate rapid calculation of surfaces. The exact area of any surface of which the limits have been ascertained can be instantly determined. The book will be found of the greatest utility to all engaged in building operations."--_Scotsman._
"These tables will be found of great assistance to all who require to make calculations in superficial measurement."--_English Mechanic._
_=Forestry.=_
_THE ELEMENTS OF FORESTRY._ Designed to afford Information concerning the Planting and Care of Forest Trees for Ornament or Profit, with Suggestions upon the Creation and Care of Woodlands. By F. B. HOUGH. Large crown 8vo, 10_s._ cloth.
_=Timber Importer's Guide.=_
_THE TIMBER IMPORTER'S, TIMBER MERCHANT'S, AND BUILDER'S STANDARD GUIDE._ By RICHARD E. GRANDY. Comprising an Analysis of Deal Standards, Home and Foreign, with Comparative Values and Tabular Arrangements for fixing Net Landed Cost on Baltic and North American Deals, including all intermediate Expenses, Freight, Insurance, &c. &c. Together with copious Information for the Retailer and Builder. Third Edition, Revised. 12mo, 2_s._ cloth limp.
"Everything it pretends to be: built up gradually, it leads one from a forest to a treenail, and throws in, as a makeweight, a host of material concerning bricks, columns, cisterns, &c."--_English Mechanic._
DECORATIVE ARTS, etc.
_=Woods and Marbles (Imitation of).=_
_SCHOOL OF PAINTING FOR THE IMITATION OF WOODS AND MARBLES_, as Taught and Practised by A. R. VAN DER BURG and P. VAN DER BURG, Directors of the Rotterdam Painting Institution. Royal folio, 18½ by 12½ in., Illustrated with 24 full-size Coloured Plates; also 12 plain Plates, comprising 154 Figures. Second and Cheaper Edition. Price £1 11_s._ 6_d._
_List of Plates._
1. Various Tools required for Wood Painting--2, 3. Walnut: Preliminary Stages of Graining and Finished Specimen--4. Tools used for Marble Painting and Method of Manipulation--5, 6. St. Remi Marble: Earlier Operations and Finished Specimen--7. Methods of Sketching different Grains, Knots, &c.--8, 9. Ash: Preliminary Stages and Finished Specimen--10. Methods of Sketching Marble Grains--11, 12. Breche Marble: Preliminary Stages of Working and Finished Specimen--13. Maple: Methods of Producing the different Grains--14, 15. Bird's-eye Maple: Preliminary Stages and Finished Specimen--16. Methods of Sketching the different Species of White Marble--17, 18. White Marble: Preliminary Stages of Process and Finished Specimen--19. Mahogany: Specimens of various Grains and Methods of Manipulation--20, 21. Mahogany: Earlier Stages and Finished Specimen--22, 23, 24. Sienna Marble: Varieties of Grain, Preliminary Stages and Finished Specimen--25, 26, 27. Juniper Wood: Methods of producing Grain, &c.: Preliminary Stages and Finished Specimen--28, 29, 30. Vert de Mer Marble: Varieties of Grain and Methods of Working Unfinished and Finished Specimens--31, 32, 33. Oak: Varieties of Grain, Tools Employed, and Methods of Manipulation, Preliminary Stages and Finished Specimen--34, 35, 36. Waulsort Marble: Varieties of Grain, Unfinished and Finished Specimens.
"Those who desire to attain skill in the art of painting woods and marbles will find advantage in consulting this book.... Some of the Working Men's Clubs should give their young men the opportunity to study it."--_Builder._
"A comprehensive guide to the art. The explanations of the processes, the manipulation and management of the colours, and the beautifully executed plates will not be the least valuable to the student who aims at making his work a faithful transcript of nature."--_Building News._
_=Wall Paper.=_
_WALL PAPER DECORATION._ By ARTHUR SEYMOUR JENNINGS, Author of "Practical Paper Hanging." With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo.
[_In preparation._
_=House Decoration.=_
_ELEMENTARY DECORATION._ A Guide to the Simpler Forms of Everyday Art. Together with _PRACTICAL HOUSE DECORATION_. By JAMES W. FACEY. With numerous Illustrations. In One Vol., 5_s._ strongly half-bound.
_=House Painting, Graining, etc.=_
_HOUSE PAINTING, GRAINING, MARBLING, AND SIGN WRITING_, A Practical Manual of. By ELLIS A. DAVIDSON. Sixth Edition. With Coloured Plates and Wood Engravings. 12mo, 6_s._ cloth boards.
"A mass of information, of use to the amateur and of value to the practical man."--_English Mechanic._
_=Decorators, Receipts for.=_
_THE DECORATOR'S ASSISTANT_: A Modern Guide to Decorative Artists and Amateurs, Painters, Writers, Gilders, &c. Containing upwards of 600 Receipts, Rules and Instructions; with a variety of Information for General Work connected with every Class of Interior and Exterior Decorations, &c. Fifth Edition, Revised. 152 pp., crown 8vo, 1_s._ in wrapper.
"Full of receipts of value to decorators, painters, gilders. &c. The book contains the gist of larger treatises on colour and technical processes. It would be difficult to meet with a work so full of varied information on the painter's art."--_Building News._
_=Moyr Smith on Interior Decoration.=_
_ORNAMENTAL INTERIORS, ANCIENT AND MODERN._ By J. MOYR SMITH. Super-royal 8vo, with 32 full-page Plates and numerous smaller Illustrations, handsomely bound in cloth, gilt top, price 18_s._
"The book is well illustrated and handsomely got up, and contains some true criticism and a good many good examples of decorative treatment."--_The Builder._
_=British and Foreign Marbles.=_
_MARBLE DECORATION and the Terminology of British and Foreign Marbles._ A Handbook for Students. By GEORGE H. BLAGROVE, Author of "Shoring and its Application," &c. With 28 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This most useful and much wanted handbook should be in the hands of every architect and builder."--_Building World._
"A carefully and usefully written treatise; the work is essentially practical."--_Scotsman._
_=Marble Working, etc.=_
_MARBLE AND MARBLE WORKERS_: A Handbook for Architects, Artists, Masons, and Students. By ARTHUR LEE, Author of "A Visit to Carrara," "The Working of Marble," &c. Small crown 8vo, 2_s._ cloth.
"A really valuable addition to the technical literature of architects and masons."--_Building News._
_DELAMOTTE'S WORKS ON ILLUMINATION AND ALPHABETS._
_A PRIMER OF THE ART OF ILLUMINATION, for the Use of Beginners_: with a Rudimentary Treatise on the Art, Practical Directions for its Exercise, and Examples taken from Illuminated MSS., printed in Gold and Colours. By F. DELAMOTTE. New and Cheaper Edition. Small 4to, 6_s._ ornamental boards.
"The examples of ancient MSS. recommended to the student, which, with much good sense, the author chooses from collections accessible to all, are selected with judgment and knowledge, as well as taste."--_Athenæum._
_ORNAMENTAL ALPHABETS, Ancient and Mediæval, from the Eighth Century, with Numerals_; including Gothic, Church-Text, large and small, German, Italian, Arabesque, Initials for Illumination, Monograms, Crosses, &c. &c., for the use of Architectural and Engineering Draughtsmen, Missal Painters, Masons, Decorative Painters, Lithographers, Engravers, Carvers, &c. &c. Collected and Engraved by F. DELAMOTTE, and printed in Colours. New and Cheaper Edition. Royal 8vo, oblong, 2_s._ 6_d._ ornamental boards.
"For those who insert enamelled sentences round gilded chalices, who blazon shop legends over shop-doors, who letter church walls with pithy sentences from the Decalogue, this book will be useful."--_Athenæum._
_EXAMPLES OF MODERN ALPHABETS, Plain and Ornamental_; including German, Old English, Saxon, Italic, Perspective, Greek, Hebrew, Court Hand, Engrossing, Tuscan, Riband, Gothic, Rustic, and Arabesque; with several Original Designs, and an Analysis of the Roman and Old English Alphabets, large and small, and Numerals, for the use of Draughtsmen, Surveyors, Masons, Decorative Painters, Lithographers, Engravers, Carvers, &c. Collected and Engraved by F. DELAMOTTE, and printed in Colours. New and Cheaper Edition. Royal 8vo, oblong, 2_s._ 6_d._ ornamental boards.
"There is comprised in it every possible shape into which the letters of the alphabet and numerals can be formed, and the talent which has been expended in the conception of the various plain and ornamental letters is wonderful."--_Standard._
_MEDIÆVAL ALPHABETS AND INITIALS FOR ILLUMINATORS._ By F. G. DELAMOTTE. Containing 21 Plates and Illuminated Title, printed in Gold and Colours. With an Introduction by J. WILLIS BROOKS. Fourth and Cheaper Edition. Small 4to, 4_s._ ornamental boards.
"A volume in which the letters of the alphabet come forth glorified in gilding and all the colours of the prism interwoven and intertwined and intermingled."--_Sun._
_THE EMBROIDERER'S BOOK OF DESIGN._ Containing Initials, Emblems, Cyphers, Monograms, Ornamental Borders, Ecclesiastical Devices, Mediæval and Modern Alphabets, and National Emblems. Collected by F. DELAMOTTE, and printed in Colours. Oblong royal 8vo, 1_s._ 6_d._ ornamental wrapper.
"The book will be of great assistance to ladies and young children who are endowed with the art of plying the needle in this most ornamental and useful pretty work."--_East Anglian Times._
_=Wood Carving.=_
_INSTRUCTIONS IN WOOD-CARVING, for Amateurs_: with Hints on Design. By A LADY. With Ten Plates. New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ in emblematic wrapper.
"The handicraft of the wood-carver, so well as a book can impart it, may be learnt from 'A Lady's' publication."--_Athenæum._
NATURAL SCIENCE, etc.
_=The Heavens and their Origin.=_
_THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE_: Chapters on the Origin and Construction of the Heavens. By J. E. GORE, F.R.A.S., Author of "Star Groups," &c. Illustrated by 6 Stellar Photographs and 12 Plates. Demy 8vo, 16_s._ cloth, gilt top.
"A valuable and lucid summary of recent astronomical theory, rendered more valuable and attractive by a series of stellar photographs and other illustrations."--_The Times._
"In presenting a clear and concise account of the present state of our knowledge, Mr. Gore has made a valuable addition to the literature of the subject."--_Nature._
"One of the finest works on astronomical science that has recently appeared in our language. In spirit and in method it is scientific from cover to cover, but the style is so clear and attractive that it will be as acceptable and as readable to those who make no scientific pretensions as to those who devote themselves specially to matters astronomical."--_Leeds Mercury._
"As interesting as a novel, and instructive withal; the text being made still more luminous by stellar photographs and other illustrations.... A most valuable book."--_Manchester Examiner._
_=The Constellations.=_
_STAR GROUPS: A Student's Guide to the Constellations._ By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S., M.R.I.A., &c., Author of "The Visible Universe," "The Scenery of the Heavens." With 30 Maps. Small 4to, 5_s._ cloth, silvered.
"A knowledge of the principal constellations visible in our latitudes may be easily acquired from the thirty maps and accompanying text contained in this work."--_Nature._
"The volume contains thirty maps showing stars of the sixth magnitude--the usual naked-eye limit--and each is accompanied by a brief commentary, adapted to facilitate recognition and bring to notice objects of special interest. For the purpose of a preliminary survey of the midnight pomp of the heavens, nothing could be better than a set of delineations averaging scarcely twenty square inches in area, and including nothing that cannot at once be identified."--_Saturday Review._
"A very compact and handy guide to the constellations."--_Athenæum._
_=Astronomical Terms.=_
_AN ASTRONOMICAL GLOSSARY_; or, Dictionary of Terms used in Astronomy. With Tables of Data and Lists of Remarkable and Interesting Celestial Objects. By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S., Author of "The Visible Universe," &c. Small crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A very useful little work for beginners in astronomy, and not to be despised by more advanced students."--_The Times._
"A very handy book ... the utility of which is much increased by its valuable tables of astronomical data."--_The Athenæum._
"Astronomers of all kinds will be glad to have it for reference."--_Guardian._
_=The Microscope.=_
_THE MICROSCOPE_: Its Construction and Management, including Technique, Photo-micrography, and the Past and Future of the Microscope. By Dr. HENRI VAN HEURCK, Director of the Antwerp Botannical Gardens. English Edition, Re-Edited and Augmented by the Author from the Fourth French Edition, and Translated by WYNNE E. BAXTER, F.R.M.S., F.G.S., &c. About 400 pages, with Three Plates and upwards of 250 Woodcuts. Imp. 8vo, 18_s._ cloth gilt.
"A translation of a well-known work, at once popular and comprehensive."--_Times._
"The translation is as felicitious as it is accurate."--_Nature._
_=Astronomy.=_
_ASTRONOMY._ By the late Rev. ROBERT MAIN, M.A., F.R.S. Third Edition, Revised, by WM. THYNNE LYNN, B.A., F.R.A.S., formerly of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 12mo, 2_s._ cloth limp.
"A sound and simple treatise, and a capital book for beginners."--_Knowledge._
"Accurately brought down to the requirements of the present time."--_Educational Times._
_=Recent and Fossil Shells.=_
_A MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells._ By S. P. WOODWARD, A.L.S., F.G.S., late Assistant Palæontologist in the British Museum. With an Appendix on _Recent and Fossil Conchological Discoveries_, by RALPH TATE, A.L.S., F.G.S. Illustrated by A. N. WATERHOUSE and JOSEPH WILSON LOWRY. With 23 Plates and upwards of 300 Woodcuts. Reprint of Fourth Ed., 1880. Cr. 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cl.
"A most valuable storehouse of conchological and geological information."--_Science Gossip._
_=Geology and Genesis.=_
_THE TWIN RECORDS OF CREATION; or, Geology and Genesis: their Perfect Harmony and Wonderful Concord._ By GEORGE W. VICTOR LE VAUX. Fcap. 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"A valuable contribution to the evidences of Revelation, and disposes very conclusively of the arguments of those who would set God's Works against God's Word. No real difficulty is shirked and no sophistry is left unexposed."--_The Rock._
_DR. LARDNER'S COURSE OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY._
_THE HANDBOOK OF MECHANICS._ Enlarged and almost Rewritten by BENJAMIN LOEWY, F.R.A.S. With 378 Illustrations. Post 8vo, 6_s._ cloth.
"The perspicuity of the original has been retained, and chapters which had become obsolete have been replaced by others of more modern character. The explanations throughout are studiously popular, and care has been taken to show the application of the various branches of physics to the industrial arts, and to the practical business of life."--_Mining Journal._
"Mr. Loewy has carefully revised the book, and brought it up to modern requirements."--_Nature._
"Natural philosophy has had few exponents more able or better skilled in the art of popularising the subject than Dr. Lardner; and Mr. Loewy is doing good service in fitting this treatise, and the others of the series, for use at the present time."--_Scotsman._
_THE HANDBOOK OF HYDROSTATICS AND PNEUMATICS._ New Edition, Revised and Enlarged, by BENJAMIN LOEWY, F.R.A.S. With 236 Illustrations. Post 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"For those 'who desire to attain an accurate knowledge of physical science without the profound methods of mathematical investigation,' this work is not merely intended, but well adapted."--_Chemical News._
"The volume before us has been carefully edited, augmented to nearly twice the bulk of the former edition, and all the most recent matter has been added.... It is a valuable text-book."--_Nature._
"Candidates for pass examinations will find it, we think, specially suited to their requirements."--_English Mechanic._
_THE HANDBOOK OF HEAT._ Edited and almost entirely Rewritten by BENJAMIN LOEWY, F.R.A.S., &c. 117 Illusts. Post 8vo, 6_s._ cloth.
"The style is always clear and precise, and conveys instruction without leaving any cloudiness or lurking doubts behind."--_Engineering._
"A most exhaustive book on the subject on which it treats, and is so arranged that it can be understood by all who desire to attain an accurate knowledge of physical science.... Mr. Loewy has included all the latest discoveries in the varied laws and effects of heat."--_Standard._
"A complete and handy text-book for the use of students and general readers."--_English Mechanic._
_THE HANDBOOK OF OPTICS._ By DIONYSIUS LARDNER, D.C.L., formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College, London. New Edition. Edited by T. OLVER HARDING, B.A. Lond., of University College, London. With 298 Illustrations. Small 8vo, 448 pages, 5_s._ cloth.
"Written by one of the ablest English scientific writers, beautifully and elaborately illustrated."--_Mechanic's Magazine._
_THE HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, AND ACOUSTICS._ By Dr. LARDNER. Ninth Thousand. Edit. by GEORGE CAREY FOSTER, B.A., F.C.S. With 400 Illustrations. Small 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"The book could not have been entrusted to anyone better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid style of Lardner, while correcting his errors and bringing up his work to the present state of scientific knowledge."--_Popular Science Review._
_THE HANDBOOK OF ASTRONOMY._ Forming a Companion to the "Handbook of Natural Philosophy." By DIONYSIUS LARDNER, D.C.L., formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College, London. Fourth Edition, Revised and Edited by EDWIN DUNKIN, F.R.A.S., Royal Observatory, Greenwich. With 38 Plates and upwards of 100 Woodcuts. In One Vol., small 8vo, 550 pages, 9_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Probably no other book contains the same amount of information in so compendious and well-arranged a form--certainly none at the price at which this is offered to the public."--_Athenæum._
"We can do no other than pronounce this work a most valuable manual of astronomy, and we strongly recommend it to all who wish to acquire a general--but at the same time correct--acquaintance with this sublime science."--_Quarterly Journal of Science._
"One of the most deservedly popular books on the subject.... We would recommend not only the student of the elementary principles of the science, but he who aims at mastering the higher and mathematical branches of astronomy, not to be without this work beside him."--_Practical Magazine._
_=Geology.=_
_RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON GEOLOGY, PHYSICAL AND HISTORICAL._ Consisting of "Physical Geology," which sets forth the leading Principles of the Science; and "Historical Geology," which treats of the Mineral and Organic Conditions of the Earth at each successive epoch, especial reference being made to the British Series of Rocks. By RALPH TATE, A.L.S., F.G.S., &c. With 250 Illustrations. 12mo, 5_s._ cl. bds.
"The fulness of the matter has elevated the book into a manual. Its information is exhaustive and well arranged."--_School Board Chronicle._
_DR. LARDNER'S MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART._
_THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART._ Edited by DIONYSIUS LARDNER, D.C.L., formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College, London. With upwards of 1,200 Engravings on Wood. In 6 Double Volumes, £1 1_s._ in a new and elegant cloth binding; or handsomely bound in half-morocco, 31_s._ 6_d._
*** OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"This series, besides affording popular but sound instruction on scientific subjects, with which the humblest man in the country ought to be acquainted, also undertakes that teaching of 'Common Things' which every well-wisher of his kind is anxious to promote. Many thousand copies of this serviceable publication have been printed, in the belief and hope that the desire for instruction and improvement widely prevails; and we have no fear that such enlightened faith will meet with disappointment."--_Times._
"A cheap and interesting publication, alike informing and attractive. The papers combine subjects of importance and great scientific knowledge, considerable inductive powers, and a popular style of treatment."--_Spectator._
"The 'Museum of Science and Art' is the most valuable contribution that has ever been made to the Scientific Instruction of every class of society."--Sir DAVID BREWSTER, in the _North British Review_.
"Whether we consider the liberality and beauty of the illustrations, the charm of the writing, or the durable interest of the matter, we must express our belief that there is hardly to be found among the new books one that would be welcomed by people of so many ages and classes as a valuable present."--_Examiner._
*** _Separate books formed from the above, suitable for Workmen's Libraries, Science Classes, etc._
_=Common Things Explained.=_ Containing Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Time, Man, the Eye, Locomotion, Colour, Clocks and Watches, &c. 233 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 5_s._
_=The Microscope.=_ Containing Optical Images, Magnifying Glasses, Origin and Description of the Microscope, Microscopic Objects, the Solar Microscope, Microscopic Drawing and Engraving, &c. 147 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 2_s._
_=Popular Geology.=_ Containing Earthquakes and Volcanoes, the Crust of the Earth, &c. 201 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 2_s._ 6_d._
_=Popular Physics.=_ Containing Magnitude and Minuteness, the Atmosphere, Meteoric Stones, Popular Fallacies, Weather Prognostics, the Thermometer, the Barometer, Sound, &c. 85 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 2_s._ 6_d._
_=Steam, and its Uses.=_ Including the Steam Engine, the Locomotive, and Steam Navigation. 89 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 2_s._
_=Popular Astronomy.=_ Containing How to observe the Heavens--The Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets, Light, Comets, Eclipses, Astronomical Influences, &c. 182 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 4_s._ 6_d._
_=The Bee and White Ants=_: Their Manners and Habits. With Illustrations of Animal Instinct and Intelligence. 135 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 2_s._
_=The Electric Telegraph Popularised.=_ To render intelligible to all who can Read, irrespective of any previous Scientific Acquirements, the various forms of Telegraphy in Actual Operation. 100 Illustrations, cloth gilt, 1_s._ 6_d._
_=Dr. Lardner's School Handbooks.=_
_NATURAL PHILOSOPHY FOR SCHOOLS._ By Dr. LARDNER. 328 Illustrations. Sixth Edition. One Vol., 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A very convenient class-book for junior students in private schools. It is intended to convey in clear and precise terms, general notions of all the principal divisions of Physical Science."--_British Quarterly Review._
_ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY FOR SCHOOLS._ By Dr. LARDNER. With 190 Illustrations. Second Edition. One Vol., 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Clearly written, well arranged, and excellently illustrated."--_Gardener's Chronicle._
_=Lardner and Bright on the Electric Telegraph.=_
_THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH._ By Dr. LARDNER. Revised and Re-written by E. B. BRIGHT, F.R.A.S. 140 Illustrations. Small 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"One of the most readable books extant on the Electric Telegraph."--_English Mechanic._
CHEMICAL MANUFACTURES, CHEMISTRY.
_=Chemistry for Engineers, etc.=_
_ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY_; A Practical Treatise for the Use of Analytical Chemists, Engineers, Iron Masters, Iron Founders, Students, and others. Comprising Methods of Analysis and Valuation of the Principal Materials used in Engineering Work, with numerous Analyses, Examples, and Suggestions. By H. JOSHUA PHILLIPS, F.I.C., F.C.S. formerly Analytical and Consulting Chemist to the Great Eastern Railway. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo, 400 pp., with Illustrations, 10_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"In this work the author has rendered no small service to a numerous body of practical men.... The analytical methods may be pronounced most satisfactory, being as accurate as the despatch required of engineering chemists permits."--_Chemical News._
"Those in search of a handy treatise on the subject of analytical chemistry as applied to the every-day requirements of workshop practice will find this volume of great assistance."--_Iron._
"The first attempt to bring forward a Chemistry specially written for the use of engineers, and we have no hesitation whatever in saying that it should at once be in the possession of every railway engineer."--_The Railway Engineer._
"The book will be very useful to those who require a handy and concise _resume_ of approved methods of analysing and valuing metals, oils, fuels, &c. It is, in fact, a work for chemists, a guide to the routine of the engineering laboratory.... The book is full of good things. As a handbook of technical analysis, it is very welcome."--_Builder._
"Considering the extensive ground which such a subject as Engineering Chemistry covers, the work is complete, and recommends itself to both the practising analyist and the analytical student."--_Chemical Trade Journal._
"The analytical methods given are, as a whole, such as are likely to give rapid and trustworthy results in experienced hands. There is much excellent descriptive matter in the work, the chapter on 'Oils and Lubrication' being specially noticeable in this respect."--_Engineer._
_=Alkali Trade, Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, etc.=_
_A MANUAL OF THE ALKALI TRADE_, including the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, Sulphate of Soda, and Bleaching Powder. By JOHN LOMAS, Alkali Manufacturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and London. With 232 Illustrations and Working Drawings, and containing 390 pages of Text. Second Edition, with Additions. Super-royal 8vo, £1 10_s._ cloth.
"This book is written by a manufacturer for manufacturers. The working details of the most approved forms of apparatus are given, and these are accompanied by no less than 232 wood engravings, all of which may be used for the purposes of construction. Every step in the manufacture is very fully described in this manual, and each improvement explained."--_Athenæum._
"We find not merely a sound and luminous explanation of the chemical principles of the trade, but a notice of numerous matters which have a most important bearing on the successful conduct of alkali works, but which are generally overlooked by even experienced technological authors."--_Chemical Review._
_=The Blowpipe.=_
_THE BLOWPIPE IN CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, AND GEOLOGY._ Containing all known Methods of Anhydrous Analysis, many Working Examples, and Instructions for Making Apparatus. By Lieut.-Colonel W. A. ROSS, R.A., F.G.S. With 120 Illustrations. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"The student who goes through the course of experimentation here laid down will gain a better insight into inorganic chemistry and mineralogy than if he had 'got up' any of the best text-books, and passed any number of examinations in their contents."--_Chemical News._
_=Commercial Chemical Analysis.=_
_THE COMMERCIAL HANDBOOK OF CHEMICAL ANALYSIS_; or, Practical Instructions for the determination of the Intrinsic or Commercial Value of Substances used in Manufactures, in Trades, and in the Arts. By A. NORMANDY, Editor of Rose's "Treatise on Chemical Analysis." New Edition, to a great extent Re-written by HENRY M. NOAD, Ph.D., F.R.S. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"We strongly recommend this book to our readers as a guide, alike indispensable to the housewife as to the pharmaceutical practitioner."--_Medical Times._
"Essential to the analysts appointed under the new Act. The most recent results are given and the work is well edited and carefully written."--_Nature._
_=Dye-Wares and Colours.=_
_THE MANUAL OF COLOURS AND DYE-WARES_: Their Properties, Applications, Valuations, Impurities, and Sophistications. For the use of Dyers, Printers, Drysalters, Brokers, &c. By J. W. SLATER. Second Edition, Revised and greatly Enlarged. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"A complete encyclopædia of the _materia tinctoria_. The information given respecting each article is full and precise, and the methods of determining the value of articles such as these, so liable to sophistication, are given with clearness, and are practical as well as valuable."--_Chemist and Druggist._
"There is no other work which covers precisely the same ground. To students preparing for examinations in dyeing and printing it will prove exceedingly useful."--_Chemical News._
_=Modern Brewing and Malting.=_
_A HANDYBOOK FOR BREWERS_: Being a Practical Guide to the Art of Brewing and Malting. Embracing the Conclusions of Modern Research which bear upon the Practice of Brewing. By HERBERT EDWARDS WRIGHT, M.A., Author of "A Handbook for Young Brewers." Crown 8vo, 530 pp., 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"May be consulted with advantage by the student who is preparing himself for examinational tests, while the scientific brewer will find in it a _resume_ of all the most important discoveries of modern times. The work is written throughout in a clear and concise manner, and the author takes great care to discriminate between vague theories and well-established facts."--_Brewers' Journal._
"We have great pleasure in recommending this handybook, and have no hesitation in saying that it is one of the best--if not the best--which has yet been written on the subject of beer-brewing in this country, and it should have a place on the shelves of every brewer's library."--_The Brewer's Guardian._
"Although the requirements of the student are primarily considered, an acquaintance of half-an-hour's duration cannot fail to impress the practical brewer with the sense of having found a trustworthy guide and practical counsellor in brewery matters."--_Chemical Trade Journal._
_=Analysis and Valuation of Fuels.=_
_FUELS: SOLID, LIQUID, AND GASEOUS_, Their Analysis and Valuation. For the Use of Chemists and Engineers. By H. J. PHILLIPS, F.C.S., formerly Analytical and Consulting Chemist to the Great Eastern Railway. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"Ought to have its place in the laboratory of every metallurgical establishment, and wherever fuel is used on a large scale."--_Chemical News._
"Cannot fail to be of wide interest, especially at the present time."--_Railway News._
_=Pigments.=_
_THE ARTIST'S MANUAL OF PIGMENTS._ Showing their Composition, Conditions of Permanency, Non-Permanency, and Adulterations; Effects in Combination with Each Other and with Vehicles; and the most Reliable Tests of Purity Together with the Science and Art Department's Examination Questions on Painting. By H. C. STANDAGE. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This work is indeed _multum-in-parvo_, and we can, with good conscience, recommend it to all who come in contact with pigments, whether as makers, dealers or users."--_Chemical Review._
_=Gauging. Tables and Rules for Revenue Officers, Brewers, etc.=_
_A POCKET BOOK OF MENSURATION AND GAUGING_: Containing Tables, Rules and Memoranda for Revenue Officers, Brewers, Spirit Merchants, &c. By J. B. MANT (Inland Revenue). Second Edition, Revised. 18mo, 4_s._ leather.
"This handy and useful book is adapted to the requirements of the Inland Revenue Department, and will be a favourite book of reference. The range of subjects is comprehensive, and the arrangement simple and clear."--_Civilian._
"Should be in the hands of every practical brewer."--_Brewers' Journal._
INDUSTRIAL ARTS, TRADES, AND MANUFACTURES.
_=Cotton Spinning.=_
_COTTON MANUFACTURE_: A Practical Manual. Embracing the various operations of Cotton Manufacture, Dyeing, &c. For the Use of Operatives, Overlookers, and Manufacturers. By JOHN LISTER, Technical Instructor, Pendleton. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
_=Flour Manufacture, Milling, etc.=_
_FLOUR MANUFACTURE_: A Treatise on Milling Science and Practice. By FRIEDRICH KICK, Imperial Regierungsrath, Professor of Mechanical Technology in the Imperial German Polytechnic Institute, Prague. Translated from the Second Enlarged and Revised Edition with Supplement. By H. H. P. POWLES, Assoc. Memb. Institution of Civil Engineers. Nearly 400 pp. Illustrated with 28 Folding Plates, and 167 Woodcuts. Royal 8vo, 25_s._ cloth.
"This valuable work is, and will remain, the standard authority on the science of milling.... The miller who has read and digested this work will have laid the foundation, so to speak, of a successful career; he will have acquired a number of general principles which he can proceed to apply. In this handsome volume we at last have the accepted text-book of modern milling in good, sound English, which has little, if any, trace of the German idiom."--_The Miller._
"The appearance of this celebrated work in English is very opportune, and British millers will, we are sure, not be slow in availing themselves of its pages."--_Millers' Gazette._
_=Agglutinants.=_
_CEMENTS, PASTES, GLUES AND GUMS_: A Practical Guide to the Manufacture and Application of the various Agglutinants required in the Building, Metal-Working, Wood-Working and Leather-Working Trades, and for Workshop, Laboratory or Office Use. With upwards of 900 Recipes and Formulæ. By H. C. STANDAGE, Chemist. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"We have pleasure in speaking favourably of this volume. So far as we have had experience, which is not inconsiderable, this manual is trustworthy."--_Athenæum._
"As a revelation of what are considered trade secrets, this book will arouse an amount of curiosity among the large number of industries it touches."--_Daily Chronicle._
"In this goodly collection of receipts it would be strange if a cement for any purpose cannot be found."--_Oil and Colourman's Journal._
_=Soap-making.=_
_THE ART OF SOAP-MAKING: A Practical Handbook of the Manufacture of Hard and Soft Soaps, Toilet Soaps, etc._ Including many New Processes, and a Chapter on the Recovery of Glycerine from Waste Leys. By ALEXANDER WATT. Fourth Edition, Enlarged. Crown 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The work will prove very useful, not merely to the technological student, but to the practical soap-boiler who wishes to understand the theory of his art."--_Chemical News._
"A thoroughly practical treatise on an art which has almost no literature in our language. We congratulate the author on the success of his endeavour to fill a void in English technical literature."--_Nature._
_=Paper Making.=_
_PRACTICAL PAPER-MAKING_: A Manual for Paper-makers and Owners and Managers of Paper-Mills. With Tables, Calculations, &c. By G. CLAPPERTON, Paper-maker. With Illustrations of Fibres from Micro-Photographs. Crown 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
[_Just published._
"The author caters for the requirements of responsible mill hands, apprentices, &c., whilst his manual will be found of great service to students of technology, as well as to veteran paper makers and mill owners. The illustrations form an excellent feature."--_Paper Trade Review._
"We recommend everybody interested in the trade to get a copy of this thoroughly practical book."--_Paper Making._
_=Paper Making.=_
_THE ART OF PAPER MAKING: A Practical Handbook of the Manufacture of Paper from Rags, Esparto, Straw, and other Fibrous Materials._ Including the Manufacture of Pulp from Wood Fibre, with a Description of the Machinery and Appliances used. To which are added Details of Processes for Recovering Soda from Waste Liquors. By ALEXANDER WATT, Author of "The Art of Soap-Making" With Illusts. Crown 8vo, 7_s_. 6_d._ cloth.
"It may be regarded as the standard work on the subject. The book is full of valuable information. The 'Art of Paper-making,' is in every respect a model of a text-book, either for a technical class or for the private student."--_Paper and Printing Trades journal._
_=Leather Manufacture.=_
_THE ART OF LEATHER MANUFACTURE._ Being a Practical Handbook, in which the Operations of Tanning, Currying, and Leather Dressing are fully Described, and the Principles of Tanning Explained, and many Recent Processes Introduced; as also the Methods for the Estimation of Tannin, and a Description of the Arts of Glue Boiling, Gut Dressing, &c. By ALEXANDER WATT, Author of "Soap-Making," &c. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 9_s._ cloth.
"A sound, comprehensive treatise on tanning and its accessories. It is an eminently valuable production, which redounds to the credit of both author and publishers."--_Chemical Review._
_=Boot and Shoe Making.=_
_THE ART OF BOOT AND SHOE-MAKING._ A Practical Handbook, including Measurement, Last-Fitting, Cutting-Out, Closing, and Making, with a Description of the most approved Machinery employed. By JOHN B. LENO, late Editor of _St. Crispin_, and _The Boot and Shoe-Maker_. 12mo, 2_s._ cloth limp.
"This excellent treatise is by far the best work ever written. The chapter on clicking, which shows how waste may be prevented, will save fifty times the price of the book."--_Scottish Leather Trader._
_=Dentistry Construction.=_
_MECHANICAL DENTISTRY: A Practical Treatise on the Construction of the various kinds of Artificial Dentures._ Comprising also Useful Formulæ, Tables, and Receipts for Gold Plate, Clasps, Solders, &c. &c. By CHARLES HUNTER. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"We can strongly recommend Mr. Hunter's treatise to all students preparing for the profession of dentistry, as well as to every mechanical dentist."--_Dublin Journal of Medical Science._
_=Wood Engraving.=_
_WOOD ENGRAVING: A Practical and Easy Introduction to the Study of the Art._ By WILLIAM NORMAN BROWN. Second Edition. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo, 1_s._ 6_d._ cloth limp.
"The book is clear and complete, and will be useful to anyone wanting to understand the first elements of the beautiful art of wood engraving."--_Graphic._
_=Horology.=_
_A TREATISE ON MODERN HOROLOGY, in Theory and Practice._ Translated from the French of CLAUDIUS SAUNIER, ex-Director of the School of Horology at Maçon, by JULIEN TRIPPLIN, F.R A.S., Besançon Watch Manufacturer, and EDWARD RIGG, M.A., Assayer in the Royal Mint. With 78 Woodcuts and 22 Coloured Copper Plates. Second Edition. Super-royal 8vo, £2 2_s._ cloth; £2 10_s._ half-calf.
"There is no horological work in the English language at all to be compared to this production of M. Saunier's for clearness and completeness. It is alike good as a guide for the student and as a reference for the experienced horolegist and skilled workman."--_Horological Journal._
"The latest, the most complete, and the most reliable of those literary productions to which continental watchmakers are indebted for the mechanical superiority over their English brethren--in fact, the Book of Books, is M. Saunier's 'Treatise.'"--_Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith._
_=Watchmaking.=_
_THE WATCHMAKER'S HANDBOOK._ Intended as a Workshop Companion for those engaged in Watchmaking and the Allied Mechanical Arts. Translated from the French of CLAUDIUS SAUNIER, and considerably enlarged by JULIEN TRIPPLIN, F.R.A.S., Vice-President of the Horological Institute, and EDWARD RIGG, M.A., Assayer in the Royal Mint. With numerous Woodcuts and 14 Copper Plates. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 9_s._ cloth.
"Each part is truly a treatise in itself. The arrangement is good and the language is clear and concise. It is an admirable guide for the young watchmaker."--_Engineering._
"It is impossible to speak too highly of its excellence. It fulfils every requirement in a handbook intended for the use of a workman. Should be found in every workshop."--_Watch and Clockmaker._
"This book contains an immense number of practical details bearing on the daily occupation of a watchmaker."--_Watchmaker and Metalworker_ (Chicago).
_=Watches and Timekeepers.=_
_A HISTORY OF WATCHES AND OTHER TIMEKEEPERS._ By JAMES F. KENDAL, M.B.H.Inst. 1_s._ 6_d._ boards; or 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth gilt.
"Mr. Kendal's book, for its size, is the best which has yet appeared on this subject in the English language."--_Industries._
"Open the book where you may, there is interesting matter in it concerning the ingenious devices of the ancient or modern horologer. The subject is treated in a liberal and entertaining spirit, as might be expected of a historian who is a master of the craft."--_Saturday Review._
_=Electrolysis of Gold, Silver, Copper, etc.=_
_ELECTRO-DEPOSITION: A Practical Treatise on the Electrolysis of Gold, Silver, Copper, Nickel, and other Metals and Alloys._ With descriptions of Voltaic Batteries, Magneto and Dynamo-Electric Machines, Thermopiles, and of the Materials and Processes used in every Department of the Art, and several Chapters on Electro-Metallurgy. By ALEXANDER WATT, Author of "Electro-Metallurgy," &c. Third Edition,Revised. Crown 8vo, 9_s._ cloth.
"Eminently a book for the practical worker in electro-deposition. It contains practical descriptions of methods, processes and materials as actually pursued and used in the workshop."--ENGINEER.
_=Electro-Metallurgy.=_
_ELECTRO-METALLURGY: Practically Treated._ By ALEXANDER WATT, Author of "Electro-Deposition," &c. Ninth Edition, including the most recent Processes. 12mo, 4_s._ cloth boards.
"From this book both amateur and artisan may learn everything necessary for the successful prosecution of electroplating."--_Iron._
_=Working in Gold.=_
_THE JEWELLER'S ASSISTANT IN THE ART OF WORKING IN GOLD_: A Practical Treatise for Masters and Workmen, Compiled from the Experience of Thirty Years' Workshop Practice. By GEORGE E. GEE, Author of "The Goldsmith's Handbook," &c. Cr. 8vo, 7_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This manual of technical education is apparently destined to be a valuable auxiliary to a handicraft which is certainty capable of great improvement."--_The Times._
"Very useful in the workshop, as the knowledge is practical, having been acquired by long experience, and all the recipes and directions are guaranteed to be successful."--_Jeweller and Metalworker._
_=Electroplating.=_
_ELECTROPLATING_: A Practical Handbook on the Deposition of Copper, Silver, Nickel, Gold, Aluminium, Brass, Platinum, &c. &c. With Descriptions of the Chemicals, Materials, Batteries, and Dynamo Machines used in the Art. By J. W. URQUHART, C.E., Author of "Electric Light," &c. Third Edition, Revised, with Additions. Numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"An excellent practical manual."--_Engineering._
"An excellent work, giving the newest information."--_Horological Journal._
_=Electrotyping.=_
_ELECTROTYPING: The Reproduction and Multiplication of Printing Surfaces and Works of Art by the Electro-deposition of Metals._ By J. W. URQUHART, C.E. Crown 8vo, 5_s._ cloth.
"The book is thoroughly practical. The reader is, therefore, conducted through the leading laws of electricity, then through the metals used by electrotypers, the apparatus, and the depositing processes, up to the final preparation of the work."--_Art Journal._
_=Goldsmiths' Work.=_
_THE GOLDSMITH'S HANDBOOK._ By GEORGE E. GEE, Jeweller, &c. Third Edition, considerably Enlarged, 12mo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cl. bds.
"A good, sound educator, and will be generally accepted as an authority."--_Horological Journal._
_=Silversmiths' Work.=_
_THE SILVERSMITH'S HANDBOOK._ By GEORGE E. GEE, Jeweller, &c. Second Edition, Revised, with numerous Illustrations. 12mo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth boards.
"The chief merit of the work is its practical character.... The workers in the trade will speedily discover its merits when they sit down to study it."--_English Mechanic._
*** _The above two-works together, strongly half-bound, price 7s._
_=Bread and Biscuit Baking.=_
_THE BREAD AND BISCUIT BAKER'S AND SUGAR-BOILER'S ASSISTANT._ Including a large variety of Modern Recipes. With Remarks on the Art of Bread-making. By ROBERT WELLS, Practical Baker. Second Edition, with Additional Recipes. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ cloth.
"A large number of wrinkles for the ordinary cook, as well as the baker."--_Saturday Review._
_=Confectionery for Hotels and Restaurants.=_
_THE PASTRYCOOK AND CONFECTIONER'S GUIDE._ For Hotels, Restaurants and the Trade in general, adapted also for Family Use. By ROBERT WELLS, Author of "The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant." Crown 8vo, 2_s._ cloth.
"We cannot speak too highly of this really excellent work. In these days of keen competition our readers cannot do better than purchase this book."--_Bakers' Times._
_=Ornamental Confectionery.=_
_ORNAMENTAL CONFECTIONERY_: A Guide for Bakers. Confectioners and Pastrycooks; including a variety of Modern Recipes, and Remarks on Decorative and Coloured Work. With 129 Original Designs. By ROBERT WELLS, Practical Baker, Author of "The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant," &c. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 5_s._
"A valuable work, practical, and should be in the hands of every baker and confectioner. The illustrative designs are alone worth treble the amount charged for the whole work."--_Bakers' Times._
_=Flour Confectionery.=_
_THE MODERN FLOUR CONFECTIONER._ Wholesale and Retail. Containing a large Collection of Recipes for Cheap Cakes, Biscuits, &c. With Remarks on the Ingredients used in their Manufacture. To which are added Recipes for Dainties for the Working Man's Table. By R. WELLS, Author of "The Bread and Biscuit Baker," &c. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ cl.
"The work is of a decidedly practical character, and in every recipe regard is had to economical working."--_North British Daily Mail._
_=Laundry Work.=_
_LAUNDRY MANAGEMENT._ A Handbook for Use in Private and Public Laundries, Including Descriptive Accounts of Modern Machinery and Appliances for Laundry Work. By the EDITOR of "The Laundry Journal." With numerous Illustrations. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"This book should certainly occupy an honoured place on the shelves of all housekeepers who wish to keep themselves _au courant_ of the newest appliances and methods."--_The Queen._
HANDYBOOKS FOR HANDICRAFTS.
By PAUL N. HASLUCK,
EDITOR OF "WORK" (NEW SERIES); AUTHOR OF "LATHEWORK," "MILLING MACHINES," &c.
Crown 8vo, 144 pages, cloth, price 1_s._ each.
==> _These_ HANDYBOOKS _have been written to supply information for_ WORKMEN, STUDENTS, _and_ AMATEURS _in the several Handicrafts, on the actual_ PRACTICE _of the_ WORKSHOP, _and are intended to convey in plain language_ TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE _of the several_ CRAFTS. _In describing the processes employed, and the manipulation of material, workshop terms are used; workshop practice is fully explained; and the text is freely illustrated with drawings of modern tools, appliances, and processes._
_THE METAL TURNER'S HANDYBOOK. A Practical Manual for Workers at the Foot-Lathe._ With over 100 Illustrations. Price 1_s._
"The book will be of service alike to the amateur and the artisan turner. It displays thorough knowledge of the subject."--_Scotsman._
_THE WOOD TURNER'S HANDYBOOK. A Practical Manual for Workers at the Lathe._ With over 100 Illustrations. Price 1_s._
"We recommend the book to young turners and amateurs. A multitude of workmen have hitherto sought in vain for a manual of this special industry."--_Mechanical World._
_THE WATCH JOBBER'S HANDYBOOK. A Practical Manual on Cleaning, Repairing, and Adjusting._ With upwards of 100 Illustrations. Price 1_s._
"We strongly advise all young persons connected with the watch trade to acquire and study this inexpensive work."--_Clerkenwell Chronicle._
_THE PATTERN MAKER'S HANDYBOOK._ A Practical Manual on the Construction of Patterns for Founders. With upwards of 100 Illustrations. Price 1_s._
"A most valuable, if not indispensable, manual for the pattern maker."--_Knowledge._
_THE MECHANIC'S WORKSHOP HANDYBOOK. A Practical Manual on Mechanical Manipulation._ Embracing Information on various Handicraft Processes, with Useful Notes and Miscellaneous Memoranda. Comprising about 200 Subjects. Price 1_s._
"A very clever and useful book, which should be found in every workshop; and it should certainly find a place in all technical schools."--_Saturday Review._
_THE MODEL ENGINEER'S HANDYBOOK. A Practical Manual on the Construction of Model Steam Engines._ With upwards of 100 Illustrations. Price 1_s._
"Mr. Hasluck has produced a very good little book."--_Builder._
_THE CLOCK JOBBER'S HANDYBOOK. A Practical Manual on Cleaning, Repairing, and Adjusting._ With upwards of 100 Illustrations. Price 1_s._
"It is of inestimable service to those commencing the trade."--_Coventry Standard._
_THE CABINET WORKER'S HANDYBOOK_: A Practical Manual on the Tools, Materials, Appliances, and Processes employed in Cabinet Work. With upwards of 100 Illustrations. Price 1_s._
"Mr. Hasluck's thoroughgoing little Handybook is amongst the most practical guides we have seen for beginners in cabinet-work."--_Saturday Review._
_THE WOODWORKER'S HANDYBOOK OF MANUAL INSTRUCTION._ Embracing Information on the Tools, Materials, Appliances and Processes employed in Woodworking. With 104 Illustrations. Price 1_s._
[_Just published._
_THE METALWORKER'S HANDYBOOK._ With upwards of 100 Illustrations.
[_In preparation._
*** OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"Written by a man who knows, not only how work ought to be done, but how to do it, and how to convey his knowledge to others."--_Engineering._
"Mr. Hasluck writes admirably, and gives complete instructions."--_Engineer._
"Mr. Hasluck combines the experience of a practical teacher with the manipulative skill and scientific knowledge of processes of the trained mechanician, and the manuals are marvels of what can be produced at a popular price."--_Schoolmaster._
"Helpful to workmen of all ages and degrees of experience."--_Daily Chronicle._
"Practical, sensible, and remarkably cheap."--_Journal of Education._
"Concise, clear and practical."--_Saturday Review._
COMMERCE, COUNTING-HOUSE WORK, TABLES, etc.
_=Commercial Education.=_
_LESSONS IN COMMERCE._ By Professor R. GAMBARO, of the Royal High Commercial School at Genoa. Edited and Revised by JAMES GAULT, Professor of Commerce and Commercial Law in King's College, London. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"The publishers of this work have rendered considerable service to the cause of commercial education by the opportune production of this volume.... The work is peculiarly acceptable to English readers and an admirable addition to existing class-books. In a phrase, we think the work attains its object in furnishing a brief account of those laws and customs of British trade with which the commercial man interested therein should be familiar."--_Chamber of Commerce Journal._
"An invaluable guide in the hands of those who are preparing for a commercial career."--_Counting House._
_=Foreign Commercial Correspondence.=_
_THE FOREIGN COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENT_: Being Aids to Commercial Correspondence in Five Languages--English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. By CONRAD E. BAKER. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 3_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"Whoever wishes to correspond in all the languages mentioned by Mr. Baker cannot do better than study this work, the materials of which are excellent and conveniently arranged. They consist not of entire specimen letters but--what are far more useful--short passages, sentences, or phrases expressing the same general idea in various forms."--_Athenæum._
"A careful examination has convinced us that it is unusually complete, well arranged, and reliable. The book is a thoroughly good one."--_Schoolmaster._
_=Accounts for Manufacturers.=_
_FACTORY ACCOUNTS_: Their Principles and Practice. A Handbook for Accountants and Manufacturers, with Appendices on the Nomenclature of Machine Details; the Income Tax Acts; the Rating of Factories; Fire and Boiler Insurance; the Factory and Workshop Acts, &c., including also a Glossary of Terms and a large number of Specimen Rulings. By EMILE GARCKE and J. M. FELLS. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo, 250 pages, 6_s._ strongly bound.
"A very interesting description of the requirements of Factory Accounts.... The principle of assimilating the Factory Accounts to the general commercial books is one which we thoroughly agree with."--_Accountants' Journal._
"Characterised by extreme thoroughness. There are few owners of factories who would not derive great benefit from the perusal of this most admirable work."--_Local Government Chronicle._
_=Intuitive Calculations.=_
_THE COMPENDIOUS CALCULATOR_; or, Easy and Concise Methods of Performing the various Arithmetical Operations required in Commercial and Business Transactions, together with Useful Tables. By DANIEL O'GORMAN. Corrected and Extended by Professor J. R. YOUNG. Twenty-seventh Edition, Revised by C. NORRIS. Fcap. 8vo, 2_s._ 6_d._ cloth limp; or, 3_s._ 6_d._ strongly half-bound in leather.
"It would be difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of a book like this to everyone engaged in commerce or manufacturing industry. It is crammed full of rules and formulæ for shortening and employing calculations."--_Knowledge._
_=Modern Metrical Units and Systems.=_
_MODERN METROLOGY: A Manual of the Metrical Units and Systems of the Present Century._ With an Appendix containing a proposed English System. By LOWIS D'A. JACKSON, A.M.Inst.C.E., Author of "Aid to Survey Practice," &c. Large crown 8vo, 12_s._ 6_d._ cloth.
"We recommend the work to all interested in the practical reform of our weights and measures."--_Nature._
_=The Metric System and the British Standards.=_
_A SERIES OF METRIC TABLES, in which the British Standard Measures and Weights are compared with those of the Metric System at present in Use on the Continent._ By C. H. DOWLING, C.E. 8vo, 10_s._ 6_d._ strongly bound.
"Mr. Dowling's Tables are well put together as a ready-reckoner for the conversion of one system into the other."--_Athenæum._
_=Iron and Metal Trades' Calculator.=_
_THE IRON AND METAL TRADES' COMPANION._ For expeditiously ascertaining the Value of any Goods bought or sold by Weight, from 1_s._ per cwt. to 112_s._ per cwt., and from one farthing per pound to one shilling per pound. By THOMAS DOWNIE. 396 pp., 9_s._ leather.
"A most useful set of tables; nothing like them before existed."--_Building News._
"Although specially adapted to the iron and metal trades, the tables will be found useful in every other business in which merchandise is bought and sold by weight."--_Railway News._
_=Chadwick's Calculator for Numbers and Weights Combined.=_
_THE NUMBER, WEIGHT, AND FRACTIONAL CALCULATOR._ Containing upwards of 250,000 Separate Calculations, showing at a glance the value at 422 different rates, ranging from 1/125th of a Penny to 20_s._ each, or per cwt., and £20 per ton, of any number of articles consecutively, from 1 to 470.--Any number of cwts., qrs., and lbs., from 1 cwt. to 470 cwts.--Any number of tons, cwts., qrs., and lbs., from 1 to 1,000 tons. By WILLIAM CHADWICK, Public Accountant. Third Edition, Revised and Improved. 8vo, 18_s._, strongly bound for Office wear and tear.
==> _Is adapted for the use of Accountants and Auditors, Railway Companies, Canal Companies, Shippers, Shipping Agents, General Carriers, etc. Ironfounders, Brassfounders, Metal Merchants, Iron Manufacturers, Ironmongers, Engineers, Machinists, Boiler Makers. Millwrights, Roofing, Bridge and Girder Makers, Colliery Proprietors, etc. Timber Merchants, Builders, Contractors, Architects, Surveyors, Auctioneers, Valuers, Brokers, Mill Owners and Manufacturers, Mill Furnishers, Merchants, and General Wholesale Tradesmen. Also for the Apportionment of Mileage Charges for Railway Traffic._
*** OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"It is as easy of reference for any answer or any number of answers as a dictionary, and the references are even more quickly made. For making up accounts or estimates the book must prove invaluable to all who have any considerable quantity of calculations involving price and measure in any combination to do."--_Engineer._
"The most complete and practical ready reckoner which it has been our fortune yet to see. It is difficult to imagine a trade or occupation in which it could not be of the greatest use, either in saving human labour or in checking work. The publishers have placed within the reach of every commercial man an invaluable and unfailing assistant."--_The Miller._
"The most perfect work of the kind yet prepared."--_Glasgow Herald._
_=Harben's Comprehensive Weight Calculator.=_
_THE WEIGHT CALCULATOR._ Being a Series of Tables upon a New and Comprehensive Plan, exhibiting at One Reference the exact Value of any Weight from 1 lb. to 15 tons, at 300 Progressive Rates, from 1_d._ to 168_s._ per cwt., and containing 186,000 Direct Answers, which, with their Combinations, consisting of a single addition (mostly to be performed at sight), will afford an aggregate of 10,266,000 Answers; the whole being calculated and designed to ensure correctness and promote despatch. By HENRY HARBEN, Accountant. Fourth Edition, carefully Corrected. Royal 8vo, £1 5_s._ strongly half-bound.
"A practical and useful work of reference for men of business generally; it is the best of the kind we have seen."--_Ironmonger._
"Of priceless value to business men. It is a necessary book in all mercantile offices."--_Sheffield Independent._
_=Harben's Comprehensive Discount Guide.=_
_THE DISCOUNT GUIDE._ Comprising several Series of Tables for the use of Merchants, Manufacturers, Ironmongers, and others, by which may be ascertained the exact Profit arising from any mode of using Discounts, either in the Purchase or Sale of Goods, and the method of either Altering a Rate of Discount or Advancing a Price, so as to produce, by one operation, a sum that will realise any required profit after allowing one or more Discounts: to which are added Tables of Profit or Advance from 1¼ to 90 per cent., Tables of Discount from 1¼ to 98¾ per cent., and Tables of Commission, &c., from ⅛ to 10 per cent. By HENRY HARBEN, Accountant, Author of "The Weight Calculator." New Edition, carefully Revised and Corrected. Demy 8vo, 544 pp., £1 5_s._ half-bound.
"A book such as this can only be appreciated by business men to whom the saving of time means saving of money. We have the high authority of Professor J. R. Young that the tables throughout the work are constructed upon strictly accurate principles. The work is a model of typographical clearness, and must prove of great value to merchants, manufacturers, and general traders."--_British Trade Journal._
_=Iron Shipbuilders' and Merchants' Weight Tables.=_
_IRON-PLATE WEIGHT TABLES: For Iron Shipbuilders, Engineers, and Iron Merchants._ Containing the Calculated Weights of upwards of 150,000 different sizes of Iron Plates, from 1 foot by 6 in. by ¼ in. to 10 feet by 5 feet by 1 in. Worked out on the basis of 40 lbs. to the square foot of Iron of 1 inch in thickness. Carefully compiled and thoroughly Revised by H. BURLINSON and W. H. SIMPSON. Oblong 4to, 25_s._ half-bound.
"This work will be found of great utility. The authors have had much practical experience of what is wanting in making estimates: and the use of the book will save much time in making elaborate calculations."--_English Mechanic._
AGRICULTURE, FARMING, GARDENING, etc.
_Dr. Fream's New Edition of "The Standard Treatise on Agriculture."_
_THE COMPLETE GRAZIER, and FARMER'S and CATTLE-BREEDER'S ASSISTANT_: A Compendium of Husbandry. Originally Written by WILLIAM YOUATT. Thirteenth Edition, entirely Re-written, considerably Enlarged, and brought up to the Present Requirements of Agricultural Practice, by WILLIAM FREAM, LL.D., Steven Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh, Author of "The Elements of Agriculture," &c. Royal 8vo, 1,100 pp., with over 450 Illustrations. £1 11_s._ 6_d._ strongly and handsomely bound.
EXTRACT FROM PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT.
"A treatise that made its original appearance in the first decade of the century, and that enters upon its Thirteenth Edition before the century has run its course, has undoubtedly established its position as a work of permanent value.... The phenomenal progress of the last dozen years in the Practice and Science of Farming has rendered it necessary, however, that the volume should be re-written, ... and for this undertaking the publishers were fortunate enough to secure the services of Dr. FREAM, whose high attainments in all matters pertaining to agriculture have been so emphatically recognised by the highest professional and official authorities. In carrying out his editorial duties, Dr. FREAM has been favoured with valuable contributions by Prof. J. WORTLEY AXE, Mr. E. BROWN, Dr. BERNARD DYER, Mr. W. J. MALDEN, Mr. R. H. REW, Prof. SHELDON, Mr. J. SINCLAIR, Mr. SANDERS SPENCER, and others.
"As regards the illustrations of the work, no pains have been spared to make them as representative and characteristic as possible, so as to be practically useful to the Farmer and Grazier."
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.