Catalogue of Scientific, Technical and Industrial Books, by Crosby Lockwood & Son.

“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 design 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. The book is one of exceptional merit.”—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.

“The book is clearly and plainly written and avoids unnecessary explanations and formulas, and we consider it a valuable book for students of marine engineering.”—Nautical Magazine.

“There is a great deal of useful information in this little pocket-book. It is the rule-of-thumb order, and is, on that account, well adapted to the uses of the sea-going engineer.”—Engineer.

“This volume will be highly appreciated by seamen, engineers, pilots, shipbuilders and shipowners. It will be found wonderfully accurate and complete.”—Scotsman.

“A very useful dictionary, which has long been wanted by French and English engineers, masters, officers and others.”—Shipping World.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“This book is just what was needed to acquaint mining men with the actual working of a process which is not only the most popular, but is, as a general rule, the most successful for the extraction of gold from tailings.”—Mining Journal.

“The work will prove invaluable to all interested in gold mining, whether metallurgists or as investors.”—Chemical News.

“There is certainly scope for a work on diamond drilling, and Mr. Denny deserves grateful recognition for supplying a decided want. We strongly recommend every board of directors to carefully peruse the pages treating of the applicability of diamond drilling to auriferous deposits, and, under certain conditions, its advantages over shaft sinking for systematic prospecting, both from the surface and underground. The author has given us a valuable volume of eminently practical data that should be in the possession of those interested in mining.”—Mining Journal.

“Mr. Denny’s handbook is the first English work to give a detailed account of the use of modern diamond core-drills in searching for mineral deposits. The work contains much information of a practical character, including particulars of the cost of apparatus and of working.”—Nature.

“As an instructor of prospectors’ classes Mr. Merritt has the advantage of knowing exactly the information likely to be most valuable to the miner in the field. The contents cover all the details of sampling and testing gold and silver ores. The work will be a useful addition to a prospector’s kit.”—Mining Journal.

“It gives the gist of the author’s experience as a teacher of prospectors, and is a book which no prospector could use habitually without finding it pan out well.”—Scotsman.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“As a history of the present state of mining throughout the world this book has a real value and it supplies an actual want.”—Athenæum.

“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.

“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.

“The book is 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 every one interested in the development of the mining and metallurgical industries of this country.”—Athenæum.

“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.

“Professor Milne’s handbook is sure to be received with favour by all connected with mining, and will be extremely popular among students.”—Athenæum.

“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.

“This volume contains an immense amount of important and interesting new matter. The book should undoubtedly prove of great use to all who wish for information on the subject, inasmuch as the different patterns of steam pumps are not alone lucidly described and clearly illustrated, but in addition numerous tables are supplied, in which their sizes, capacity, price, &c., are set forth, hence facilitating immensely the rational selection of a pump to suit any purpose that the reader may desire, or, on the other hand, supplying him with useful information about any of the pumps that come within the scope of the volume.”—The Engineer.

“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 has also 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 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.).

“This is, indeed, an admirable Handbook for Colliery Managers, in fact it is an indispensable adjunct to a Colliery Manager’s education, as well as being a most useful and interesting work on the subject for all who in any way have to do with coal mining. The underground photographs are an attractive feature of the work, being very lifelike and necessarily true representations of the scenes they depict.”—Colliery Guardian.

“Mr. Bulman and Mr. Redmayne, who are both experienced Colliery Managers of great literary ability, are to be congratulated on having supplied an authoritative work dealing with a side of the subject of coal mining which has hitherto received but scant treatment. The authors elucidate their text by 119 woodcuts and 28 plates, most of the latter being admirable reproductions of photographs taken underground with the aid of the magnesium flash-light. These illustrations are excellent.”—Nature.

“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.

“The author has done his work in a creditable manner, and has produced a book that will be of service to students and those who are practically engaged in mining operations.”—Engineer.

“Professor Clowes has given us a volume on a subject of much industrial importance.... Those interested in these matters may be recommended to study this book, which is easy of comprehension and contains many good things.”—The Engineer.

“A book that no mining engineer—certainly no coal miner—can afford to ignore or to leave unread.”—Mining Journal.

“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.

“An interesting and invaluable work.”—Colliery Guardian.

“A clearly and well-written manual for persons engaged or interested in the granite industry.”—Scotsman.

“There are few, if any, persons more fitted to write a treatise on submarine telegraphy than Mr. Charles Bright. The author has done his work admirably, and has written in a way which will appeal as much to the layman as to the engineer. This admirable volume must, for many years to come, hold the position of the English classic on submarine telegraphy.”—Engineer.

“This book is full of information. It makes a book of reference which should be in every engineer’s library.”—Nature.

“Mr. Bright’s interestingly written and admirably illustrated book will meet with a welcome reception from cable men.”—Electrician.

“The author deals with his subject from all points of view—political and strategical as well as scientific. The work will be of interest, not only to men of science, but to the general public. We can strongly recommend it.”—Athenæum.

“The work contains a great store of technical information concerning the making and working of submarine telegraphs. In bringing together the most valuable results relating to the evolution of the telegraph, the author has rendered a service that will be very widely appreciated.”—Morning Post.

“It is the best book of its kind.”—Electrical Engineer.

“The Electrical Engineer’s Pocket-Book is a good one.”—Electrician.

“Strongly recommended to those engaged in the electrical industries.”—Electrical Review.

“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.

“Eminently practical and useful.... Ought to be in the hands of every one in charge of an electric light plant.”—Electrical Engineer.

“The whole ground of electric lighting is more or less covered and explained in a very clear and concise manner.”—Electrical Review.

“A 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.

“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.

“A book for which a demand has long existed.”—Mechanical World.

“An example which deserves to be taken as a model by other authors. The subject is treated in a manner which any intelligent man who is fit to be entrusted with charge of an engine should be able to understand. It is a useful book to all who make, tend, or employ electric machinery.”—Architect.

“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 5,600 references will be found.”—Electrical Review.

“The subject of ship electric lighting is one of vast importance, and Mr. Urquhart is to be highly complimented for placing such a valuable work at the service of marine electricians.”—The Steamship.

“The book contains excellent advice and many practical hints for the help of those who wish to light their own houses.”—Building News.

“Any one 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.

“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.

“The most complete exposition 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.

“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 student’s 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.”—Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

“Mr. Purchase’s ‘Practical Masonry’ will undoubtedly be found useful to all interested in this important subject, whether theoretically or practically. Most of the examples given are from actual work carried out, the diagrams being carefully drawn. The book is a practical treatise on the subject, the author himself having commenced as an operative mason, and afterwards acted as foreman mason on many large and important buildings prior to the attainment of his present position. It should be found of general utility to architectural students and others, as well as to those to whom it is specially addressed.”—Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

“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 an architect’s book of reference.”—Journal of the Royal Institute 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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“This edition will be found the most complete treatise on the principles of measuring and valuing artificer’s work that has yet been published.”—Building News.

“No builder, architect, surveyor, or valuer should be without his ‘Beaton.’”—Building News.

“Any one who wants a book on ironwork, as employed in buildings for stanchions, columns, and beams, will find the present volume to be suitable. The author has had long and varied experience in designing this class of work. The illustrations have the character of working drawings. This practical book may be counted a most valuable work.”—British Architect.

“The 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.

“In two years it will repay its cost a hundred times over.”—Field.

“‘What process shall we adopt to purify our sewage?’ This question has rarely been treated from so many points of view in one book. This volume teems with practical hints, which show the intimate knowledge the author has of his subject.”—The Engineer.

“We know of no book of the same size which gives so complete and accurate an account of the principles of sewage purification.”—The Builder.

“Dr. Rideal’s book is both interesting and accurate, and contains a most useful résumé of the latest knowledge upon the subject of which it treats. It ought to be of great service to all who are connected with the supply of water for domestic or manufacturing purposes.”—The Engineer.

“Dealing as clearly as it does with the various ramifications of such an important subject as water and its purification it may be warmly recommended. Local authorities and all engaged in sanitary affairs, and others interested in water supply, will read its pages with profit.”—Lancet.

“We conscientiously recommend it as a very useful book for those concerned in obtaining water for small districts, giving a great deal of practical information in a small compass.”—Builder.

“This book will be largely read; it will be of considerable service to the public. It is well arranged, easily read, and for the most part devoid of technical terms.”—Lancet.

“A mine of condensed information of a pertinent and useful kind on the various subjects of which it treats. The matter seems to have been carefully compiled and arranged for facility of reference, and it is well illustrated by diagrams and woodcuts. The different subjects are succinctly but fully and scientifically dealt with.”—The Lancet.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“Likely to be of considerable value to joiners and others who take a pride in good work. The arrangement of the book is excellent. We heartily commend it to teachers and students.”—Timber Trades Journal.

“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.

“Contains much valuable information for timber merchants, builders, foresters, and all others connected with the growth, sale, and manufacture of timber.”—Journal of Forestry.

“Invaluable labour-saving tables.”—Ironmonger.

“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.

“Mr. Curtis has in the course of a series of short pithy chapters afforded much information of a useful and practical character on the planting and subsequent treatment of trees.”—Illustrated Carpenter and Builder.

“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.

“Students and novices are fortunate who are able to become the possessors of so noble a work.”—The Architect.

“A mass of information of use to the amateur and of value to the practical man.”—English Mechanic.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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 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.

“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.

“The handicraft of the wood-carver, so well as a book can impart it, may be learnt from ‘A Lady’s’ publication.”—Athenæum.

“Much may be learned, even by those who fancy they do not require to be taught, from the careful perusal of this unpretending but comprehensive treatise.”—Art Journal.

“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.

“Mr. Gore’s ‘Visible Universe’ is one of the finest works on astronomical science that have 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.

“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 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.”—Athenæum.

“A translation of a well-known work, at once popular and comprehensive.”—Times.

“The translation is as felicitous as it is accurate.”—Nature.

“A sound and simple treatise, very carefully edited, and a capital book for beginners.”—Knowledge.

“Accurately brought down to the requirements of the present time by Mr. Lynn.”—Educational Times.

“A most valuable storehouse of conchological and geological information.”—Science Gossip.

“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.

“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.

“For those ‘who desire to attain an accurate knowledge of physical science without the profound methods of mathematical investigation,’ this work is well adapted.”—Chemical News.

“The style is always clear and precise, and conveys instruction without leaving any cloudiness or lurking doubts behind.”—Engineering.

“Written by one of the ablest English scientific writers, beautifully and elaborately illustrated.”—Mechanics’ Magazine.

“The book could not have been entrusted to any one 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.

“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.

“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.

“A very convenient class book for junior students in private schools.”—British Quarterly Review.

“Clearly written, well arranged, and excellently illustrated.”—Gardener’s Chronicle.

“One of the most readable books extant on the Electric Telegraph.”—English Mechanic.

“The book contains a vast amount of information. The author goes consecutively through the engineering details and practical methods involved in each of the different processes or parts of a gas-works. He has certainly succeeded in making a compilation of hard matters of fact absolutely interesting to read.”—Gas World.

“A useful work of reference for the gas engineer and all interested in lighting or heating by gas, while the analyses of the various descriptions of gas will be of value to the technical chemist. All matter in any way connected with the manufacture and use of gas is dealt with. The book has evidently been carefully compiled, and certainly constitutes a useful addition to gas literature.”—Builder.

“The volume contains a great quantity of specialised information, compiled, we believe, from trustworthy sources, which should make it of considerable value to those for whom it is specifically produced.”—Engineer.

“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.

“Full of good things. As a handbook of technical analysis, it is very welcome.”—Builder.

“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.

“Any one having the requisite apparatus and materials could make nitro-glycerine or gun-cotton, to say nothing of other explosives, by the aid of the instructions in this volume. This is one of the very few text-books in which can be found just what is wanted. Mr. Sanford goes through the whole list of explosives commonly used, names any given explosive, and tells us of what it is composed and how it is manufactured. The book is excellent throughout.”—Engineer.

“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.

“Merits a wide circulation, and an intelligent, appreciative study.”—Chemical News.

“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 student who goes conscientiously 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 of the day, and passed any number of examinations in their contents.”—Chemical News.

“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.

“May be consulted with advantage by the student who is preparing himself for examinational tests, while the scientific brewer will find in it a résumé 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 handy book, 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; it should have a place on the shelves of every brewer’s library.”—Brewers’ 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.

“Ought to have its place in the laboratory of every metallurgical establishment and wherever fuel is used on a large scale.”—Chemical News.

“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.

“This handy and useful book is adapted to the requirements of the Inland Revenue Department, and will be a favourite book of reference.”—Civilian.

“Should be in the hands of every practical brewer.”—Brewers’ Journal.

“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, and, in fact, the information it contains on matters of business should be impressed on every one.”—Counting House.

“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.

“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.

“We recommend the work to all interested in the practical reform of our weights and measures.”—Nature.

“Mr. Dowling’s Tables are well put together as a ready reckoner for the conversion of one system into the other.”—Athenæum.

“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.

“It is as easy of reference for any answer or any number of answers as a dictionary. 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 perfect work of the kind yet prepared.”—Glasgow Herald.

“A practical and useful work of reference for men of business generally.”—Ironmonger.

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“A book such as this can only be appreciated by business men, to whom the saving of time means saving of money. The work must prove of great value to merchants, manufacturers, and general traders.”—British Trade Journal.

“Dr. Fream is to be congratulated on the successful attempt he has made to give us a work which will at once become the standard classic of the farm practice of the country. We believe that it will be found that it has no compeer among the many works at present in existence.... The illustrations are admirable, while the frontispiece, which represents the well-known bull, New Year’s Gift, owned by the Queen, is a work of art.”—The Times.

“The book must be recognised as occupying the proud position of the most exhaustive work of reference in the English language on the subject with which it deals.”—Athenæum.

“The most comprehensive guide to modern farm practice that exists in the English language to-day.... The book is one that ought to be on every farm and in the library of every land owner.”—Mark Lane Express.

“In point of exhaustiveness and accuracy the work will certainly hold a pre-eminent and unique position among books dealing with scientific agricultural practice. It is, in fact, an agricultural library of itself.”—North British Agriculturist.

“A compendium of authoritative and well-ordered knowledge on every conceivable branch of the work of the live stock farmer; probably without an equal in this or any other country.”—Yorkshire Post.

“A really complete work on the history, breeds, and management of the farm stock of Great Britain, and one which is likely to find its way to the shelves of every country gentleman’s library.”—The Times.

“The latest edition of ‘Farm Live Stock of Great Britain’ is a production to be proud of, and its issue not the least of the services which its author has rendered to agricultural science.”—Scottish Farmer.

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“No farmer, and certainly no agricultural student, ought to be without this multum-in-parvo manual of all subjects connected with the farm.”—North British Agriculturist.

“This little pocket-book contains a large amount of useful information upon all kinds of agricultural subjects. Something of the kind has long been wanted.”—Mark Lane Express.

“The amount of information it contains is most surprising; the arrangement of the matter is so methodical—although so compressed—as to be intelligible to everyone who takes a glance through its pages. They teem with information.”—Farm and Home.

“Confidently recommended as a useful text-book on dairy farming.”—Agricultural Gazette.

“Probably the best half-crown manual on dairy work that has yet been produced.”—North British Agriculturist.

“It is the soundest little work we have yet seen on the subject.”—The Times.

“An exhaustive and masterly production. It may be cordially recommended to all students and practitioners of dairy science.”—North British Agriculturist.

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“We have no doubt that the book will be welcomed by a large class of farmers and others interested in agriculture.”—Standard.

“This little book is precisely what it professes to be—‘A Handbook for the Practical Farmer.’ Dr. Dyer has done farmers good service in placing at their disposal so much useful information in so intelligible a form.”—The Times.

“The volume is a capital study of a most important subject.”—Agricultural Gazette.

“Contains every requisite form for keeping farm accounts readily and accurately.”—Agriculture.

“A good book, containing a great deal of valuable teaching.”—Gardeners’ Magazine.

“A very good book, and one to be highly recommended as a practical guide. The practical directions are excellent.”—Athenæum.

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“This valuable book has been considerably enlarged and improved by the labours of Mr. Schooling, and is now very complete indeed.”—Economist.

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“Full of tables and examples in connection with the valuation of tenant-right, estates, labour, contents and weights of timber, and farm produce of all kinds.”—Agricultural Gazette.

“An eminently practical handbook, full of practical tables and data of undoubted interest and value to surveyors and auctioneers in preparing valuations of all kinds.”—Farmer.

“To valuers, foresters and agents it will be a welcome aid.”—North British Agriculturist.

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“The advice is thoroughly practical.”—Law Journal.

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“Carefully brought up to date, and much improved by the addition of a division on Fine Art. A well-written and thoughtful work.”—Land Agent’s Record.