Part 3, called the ‘Physical elements of the problem,’ discusses

distance, curvature and grades.”—Pol. Sci. Q.

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“A more accurate and descriptive title for Professor Webb’s book would have been ‘The technical problems of railroad construction and operation.’” Emory R. Johnson.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 619. N. ’07. 280w.

“The work as a whole is an excellent treatment of a subject the complete understanding of which is essential to those upon whom rests the responsibility for the economic design and improvement of railways. A vast amount of matter is epitomized and systematized into convenient compass, which considering the authority of its source, should commend it alike to the student and the busy contractor.” Walter W. Colpitts.

+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 440. Ap. 18, ’07. 2020w.

“The condensed character of Mr. Webb’s book would hardly lead to its substitution for the more extended treatment given by Wellington. In spite of the author’s modest assertion that the lawyer or legislator will find in the book little or nothing of use to him, and the implication that the professor of social economics will pass it by, this little manual is well worth a careful reading by all these classes.” Frank Haigh Dixon.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 155. Mr. ’07. 300w.

=Webster, Jean.= Jerry Junior. †$1.50. Century.

7–13435.

The game of love is played according to new rules in this story of Jerry Junior, the young American who finds himself stranded at an out of the way Italian watering place, awaiting the coming of a delayed sister and aunt. He meets an American girl who lives at a near by villa by inauspiciously falling off a stone wall at her feet and, in order to know her better impersonates an Italian donkey-driver with earrings and a red sash. The girl is not deceived and by the time the donkey driver has advanced in her good graces far enough to hold her hand she succeeds in making him jealous both of the stranger who fell off the wall and of Jerry Junior, both being himself, but he doesn’t know that she knows. It is all very amusing and pretty.

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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07. ✠

“A book as airy-light, as iridescent, as inconsequential as a soap-bubble.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 410w.

+ =Ind.= 63: 163. Jl. 18, ’07. 90w.

“Much of the charm of the tale is due to its locale. The descriptions are unforced and Miss Webster has the tact not to insist on her scenic environment, not to force the moonlight and the snowy summits on her readers.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 350w.

“The book like the author’s other works, is a ‘delightful bit of nonsense.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.

+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 70w.

=Weed, Walter Harvey.= Copper mines of the world. $4. Hill pub. co.

7–25687.

“The work does not attempt to treat various properties described from the viewpoint of their financial merit; nor does it lead the reader into the deeper technicalities of physical chemistry or metallurgy. On the contrary it is, so to speak, a bird’s-eye view of the copper world, so presented as to answer such questions as: (1) Where are the deposits found? (2) What is the nature of the ore and its amenability to treatment? (3) How much of it is there? (4) What is the geologic occurrence? (5) What is the bearing of the observed and recorded facts on the probability of richness and continuity in depth? (6) What is the genesis of the deposit, and its bearings on the present and probable future production?”—Engin. N.

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“Will fill an important niche in the libraries of mining men, investors, and students, and of those as well who are interested in the metal from the industrial point of view only. From the geological standpoint, the author has handled the subject with an undeniable mastery and comprehensiveness. A possible minor criticism is that, in