DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, ed. G11+ Scenes from every land, picturing the people, natural phenomena and animal life of all parts of the world; ed. by Gilbert H. Grosvenor. Series 2-4. 1909-1918. National geographic society, Washington, D. C. $4.25. Warren, T. Robinson, 2G11 Dust and foam; or, Three oceans and two continents; being ten years' wanderings in Mexico, South America, Sandwich Islands, the East and West Indies, China, Philippines, Australia and Polynesia. 1859. Scribner. $1.00. Taylor, Thomas Griffith. G149 With Scott: the silver lining; with nearly 200 illustrations and maps. 1916. Smith, Elder. 18/. "Together with Priestley's record of the northern party this completes the supplement to the official narrative."-A. L. A. booklist. Jenkins, John Stillwell. 2G159 United States exploring expeditions. Voyage of the U. S. exploring squadron, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes...in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842; together with explorations and discoveries made by Admiral D'Urville, Captain Ross, and other navigators and travellers, and an account of the expedition to the Dead Sea, under Lieutenant Lynch; with numerous illustrations. 1856. Alden and Beardsley, Auburn and Rochester. $1.50. Stephens, John Lloyd. 2G29 Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land. 8th ed., with additions. 2v. 1838. Harper. Stephens, John Lloyd. 2G30 Incidents of travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland; with a map and engravings. 7th ed. 2v. 1851. Harper. $2.50. Addey, Markinfield. 2G42+ Picturesque Ireland, historical and descriptive, illustrated by numerous steel engravings of its romantic scenery and its remarkable antiquities from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett, and a complete account of its cities, towns, mountains, waters, ancient monuments and modern structures. 2v. 1890. Worthington co., N. Y. Hudson, William Henry. G45 The Land's End, a naturalist's impressions in west Cornwall; with 49 illustrations by A. L. Collins. 1908. Hutchinson & co., London. 10/6. "It is as the study of a Cornish character, with all its strange inconsistencies and inversions, that the book will take its place among the best and most discerning that have been written of rough, natural man."-Spectator. Osborne, Albert B. As it is in England. 1913. McBride, Nast. $1.25. G45 "No better volume could be selected to reveal the typical and attractive 'As it is in England' than the delightful survey of Mr. Osborne."-C. E. Hesselgrave, in Independent. 2G45 Stoke Poges; a concise account of the church and manor, and also of the poet, Thomas Gray. 1896. Printed by Horace Cox, London. Edwards, George Wharton. 2G46 Thumb-nail sketches. 1893. Century. $1.00. The scenes of these short stories of travel and observation are laid in Holland and Belgium. Stevens, George Warrington. G69 In India. 1899. Nelson. Evans, Frederick Noble. JWP Town improvement; a review of the principles by which physical improvement in the town or city may be accomplished, with observations as to the effect of such improvement upon the life of the community. 1919. Appleton. $2.75. "Any public-spirited citizen desirous of the improvement of his home town may find in this work an outline of methods on which to proceed."-American review of reviews. Brailsford, Henry Noel. 2JZ The covenant of peace; an essay on the league of nations; with an introduction by Herbert Croly. 1919. B. W. Huebsch, N. Y. $.25. This essay was awarded the £100 prize offered by the English review. Powell, Lyman Pierson, and Hodgins, F. B., comp. JZ America and the league of nations; addresses in Europe, Woodrow Wilson. 1919. Rand, McNally. $1.00. (Patriotism through literature.) Sayre, Francis Bowes. JZ Experiments in international administration. 1919. Harper. $1.50. "The facts here presented have never before been brought together in a single volume."American review of reviews. TUBERCULOSIS Brown, Lawrason. QN Rules for recovery from pulmonary tuberculosis; a layman's handbook of treatment. 3d ed., thoroughly rev. Philadelphia. $1.25. French, Roy Leon. 1919. Lea & Febiger, QN Home care of consumptives; with 27 illustrations. 1916. Putnam. $1.00. "An appendix gives the names of manufacturers of Invalid supplies useful in tuberculosis. At the end of the chapter 'Change of climate' a list is given of different states in which conditions are favorable, and addresses to which to write."-Cleveland Open shelf. Galbreath, Thomas Crawford. 2QN T. B.; playing the lone game consumption. 1918. Journal of the outdoor life publishing company, N. Y. $.25. Hawes, John Bromham. QN Consumption; what it is and what to do about it. 2d new and enl. ed. 1916. Small, Maynard. $.75. (Welfare series.) King, Dougall MacDougall. 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S. reclamation service expended about $100,000,000 on the construction of various irrigation systems scattered over our vast western domain. Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the U. S. reclamation service, has described twenty-one of the twenty-five projects in the volume under consideration."-Book review digest. STA Brokaw, Harry Clifford, and Starr, C. A. Putnam's automobile handbook; the care and management of the modern motor-car. 1918. Putnam. $1.90. Collins, Hubert Edwin. Pipes and piping. (Power handbooks.) Neubecker, William. TB 1908. Hill publishing company, N. Y. $1.00. TH Kinks and labor saving methods for sheet metal workers. Original means and devices successfully employed by sheet metal tradesmen for expediting work and saving material. 2v. 1918. Sheet metal publication company, N. Y. $2.00. Bigwood, George. Cotton. 1919. Holt. $1.60. (Staple trades and industries.) TT Brown, Harold Warner. ELECTRIC ARTS RT Electrical equipment, its selection and arrangement, with special reference to factories, shops and industrial plants. 1917. McGrawHill book company, N. Y. Cook, Arthur Leroy. $2.00. RT Interior wiring and systems for electric light and power service; a manual of practice for electrical workers, contractors, architects and schools. 1917. Wiley. $2.00. "Practical and free from troublesome mathematics. A wealth of clearly expressed and definite information and instruction compressed into a volume of pocket size."-New York public library New technical books. Pagé, Victor Wilfred. RTD Storage batteries simplified, operating principles-care and industrial applications; a complete, non-technical but authoritative treatise discussing the development of the modern storage battery, outlining the basic operation of the leading types; also the methods of construction, charging, maintenance and repair. All practical applications of commercial batteries are shown and described. Includes special instructions for care and repair of automobile batteries and glossary of terms. This book has been written with the co-operation of the leading American storage battery makers. Thoroughly illustrated with special charts, diagrams and photographs. 1919. Norman W. Henley publishing company, N. Y. $1.50. Croft, Terrell Williams. Practical electric illumination. pany, N. Y. $2.00. RW 1917. McGraw-Hill book com "Non-technical explanation of light, how it is produced and propagated, the significance of units used in everyday illumination work, and a discussion of actual illumination problems and their solutions."-Booklist. Crocker, Francis Bacon, and Arendt, Morton. RX Electric motors, their action, control and application. 2d ed., rev. and enl. 1914. Van Nostrand. $2.50. Croft, Terrell Williams. RX Central stations. 1917. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $2.50. "An excellent illustrated book on the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity."-Booklist. Harding, Louis Allen, and Willard, A. C. SG Mechanical equipment of buildings; a reference book for engineers Contents: v.1. Heating and ventilating.-v.2. Power plants and refrigeration. SG Mechanics of the household; a course of study devoted to domestic machinery and household mechanical appliances. 1918. McGraw- Crussell, E. H. SH Jobbing work for the carpenter. 1914. D. Williams company, N. INDUSTRIAL PAINTING The expert interior decorator; a manual of reference for the expert decorator and instruction for the beginner in the art of painting and decorating the walls of private residences, public buildings, churches, halls, lodge rooms, etc. 1917. A. A. Kelly, Malvern, Pa. $3.00. The expert sign painter; a book of reference designed for the use of practical sign painters & letterers. 1911. A. A. Kelly, Malvern, Maire, Frederick. Modern painter's cyclopedia; over 100 illustrations. SI 1918. F. J. "Designed for a textbook or book of reference in practical trade schools, and to take the place to some extent of a correspondence course in the subject."-Booklist. The trackman's helper; a hand book for track foremen, supervisors and engineers. 1917 ed., rev. and enl. by Richard T. Dana and A. F. Trimble after the original by J. Kindelan as revised by F. A. Smith, F. R. Coates and Jerry Sullivan. 1917. Clark book co., N. Y. $2.50. The elements of railroad engineering. 3d ed., rev. 1917. Wiley. "Reliable general study of a railroad from the engineering point of view-its permanent way, locomotive performance as affecting grades and general layout, preliminary and later Railway maintenance engineering; with notes on construction; 194 illustrations, six folding plates. 1919. Van Nostrand. $2.50. "A well illustrated textbook, with references to more specialized material. Covers in a very practical way the track, structures and other equipment of an established railroad, with reference to their maintenance and improvement."-H. L. Cowing. Prior, Frederick John, comp. Operation of trains and station work and telegraphy. 1919. F. J. Gramont, Armand Antoine Agénor de, duc de Guiche. Aviator's elementary handbook; a primer of aviation and aeroplane machines; tr. by Dwight W. Miner. 1918. Bretano's, N. Y. $1.00. "A French aviation captain who has for years experimented in the laboratory at St. Cyr here gives indispensable elementary information, without mathematical formulas, for the Rathbun, John B. SZ Aeroplane construction and operation; including notes on aeroplane design and aerodynamic calculation, materials, etc. A comprehensive illustrated manual of instruction for aeroplane constructors, aviators, aero-mechanics, flight officers and students. Adapted either for schools or home study. 1919. Stanton and Van Vliet co., Chicago. $2.00. "One of the best books intermediate between popular description and mathematical design."-H. L. Cowing. MACHINE-SHOP PRACTICE Halsey, Frederick Arthur. TA Methods of machine shop work, for apprentices and students in technical and trade schools. 1914. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $2.50. Hartman, William Beeler. Machine shop practice. 1917. Appleton. $1.10. Kaup, William J. TA TA Machine shop practice; a manual for apprentices and journeyman machinists, and for use in trade, industrial and technical schools. 2d ed., rev. 1915. Wiley. $1.50. (Wiley technical series for vocational and industrial schools.) MECHANICAL DRAWING Fairfield, Howard Parker. ТАА Blueprint reading; a practical manual of instruction in blueprint reading through the analysis of typical plates with reference to mechanical drawing conventions and methods, the laws of projection, etc._ Blueprint reading, by Howard P. Fairfield; Mechanical drawing, by Ervin Kenison and Edward B. Waite. 1919. American technical society, Chicago. $2.00. "A good practical book of the correspondence school type."-Booklist. Howe, Charles Burton. Mechanical drafting. 1916. Wiley. $1.75. TAA "One of the best short courses, with an unusual variety of applications."-H. L. Cowing. Weick, Charles William. TAA Elementary mechanical drawing; theory and practice, with chapters on geometrical drawing, mensuration and reproduction of drawings; a text-book for technical, secondary, trade and vocational schools. 1915. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $1.75. Contains a chapter on "One of the best books of its type, very good for industrial work. Simple enough for home study, with illustrations of both wood and metal work. making blue-prints."-A. L. A. booklist. STEAM ENGINEERING Crane, William Edward. TC American stationary engineering; a practical work which begins at the boiler room and takes in the whole power plant. Contains complete examination for a license. 3d ed., rev., includes indicating and diagrams. 1917. Norman W. Henley publishing co., N. Y. $2.00. Hirshfeld, Clarence Floyd, and Ulbricht, T. C. Steam power. TC 1916. Wiley. $2.50. (Wiley technical series for vocational and industrial schools.) "A sound elementary book intended to give the stationary engineer an adequate understanding of the principles governing the operation of engines and other steam apparatus.”— H. L. Cowing. |