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2. Chapter III. treats of moments and shears, and of the design of plategirders.... Chapter IV. and V. treat of all kinds of trusses with parallel and horizontal chords and with chords not parallel.... To the chapter on swing bridges has been added...
3. Volume XXII. of the “Columbia university studies.” An historical studyof the treatment of the poor in Connecticut from the earliest colonial period to the present day, in which the town system of relief is considered as opposed to the state and co...
4. Part 2 is divided into five sections which cover the western movement“The volume is on the whole an interesting result of much labour, written with considerable vigour and insight, and summing up better than any other work yet produced the variou...
5. Volume I., of a history of the United States which is designed totrace as one unbroken development the founding of the thirteen colonies by immigrants, mainly from England, the achievement of independence from English control, the Union under...
6. Part IV gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am.“While a certain amount of repetition of thoughts already published was inevitable in a systematic treatise, every chapter and paragraph has its justification. Looking back over...
7. Volume III. of the “American archæology and ethnology” series issuedby the University of California. An extended examination of the Hupa language in which the various words and forms have been studied, analyzed and assembled into classes “that a...
8. Volume I covered the period of Greek philosophy previous to Socrates,volumes II. and III. contain a discussion of Socrates, his life, his followers, and the great philosophical movement which he fathered; also an account of Plato and his philosop...
9. Volume I. now issued, covers Abbayne to Carrington.Lodowick Carliell was a courtier dramatist of the reigns of Charles I and II. The name of Carliell is a conspicuous one in English literature, having as a later representative T...
10. volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.* “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ i...
11. Volume XV closes the series of monographs on the history of America asportrayed in the evolution of its highways of war, commerce, and social expansion, in the “Historic highways of America” series. Besides the first essay, which gives the title t...
12. Part one deals with shipping subsidies historically under thesub-divisions: Great Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Austro-Hungary; Japan; Other countries; and United States. Part two concerns the Theory of subsidies and is divided into: T...
13. Chapter VI. discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing andplate girder design. Chapter VII. treats of deflections.... The final chapter takes up cranes, bents, towers, viaducts, and other miscellaneous structures. A notable feature of...
14. Volume III in the “Columbia university studies in English series.” Abook which sets forth the classical influence in Tennyson’s writings by showing the kinship between many of his passages and those of the old Greek and Latin authors. There are...
15. Volume II. but the first in date of issue, of an eight volume serieswhich will deal with the “Church universal.” This volume contains an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. It begins with the death of St. John’s last...
16. Volume I. of a five volume edition. “Vol. I., which contains four mapsand fifty other illustrations, is divided into two parts. Part I. deals with ‘The movements in the outer crust of the earth’—floods, cyclones, seismic areas, dislocations, volca...
17. Part II. is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the‘Northern foreland of the Alpine system,’ ‘The trend-lines of the Alpine system,’ ‘The basin of the Adriatic,’ ‘The Mediterranean,’ the Great desert plateau, the Indian mountain...
18. Part two contains the author’s impressions of the Japan to-day,impressions which were derived from trips to northern as well as southern Japan. The descriptions of the people and of the public and domestic life are well considered, and in a...