Hiscox, Gardner Dexter. TC Modern steam engineering in theory and practice; a new, complete, and practical work for steam-users, electricians, firemen, and engineers. Over two hundred questions with their answers, likely to be asked by the examining boards, are given, as well as forty tables of the properties of steam for power and other uses; containing chapters on electrical engineering by Newton Harrison. Illustrated by over 400 specially made engravings. 4th ed. 1919. publishing company, N. Y. $3.00. James, Walter Herman, and Dole, M. W. Norman W. Henley Mechanism of steam engines. 1914. Wiley. $2.00. Mason, Charles James. TC TC Arithmetic of the steam boiler; a reference book showing the va rious applications of arithmetic to steam boilers. 1914. McGrawHill book company, N. Y. $1.00. (Power handbooks.) Shealy, Edward Marvin. TC Steam boilers; prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin. 1912. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $2.50. (Engineering education series.) "General non-mathematical text, especially good on combustion."-H. L. Cowing. Shealy, Edward Marvin. TC Steam engines, prepared in the Extension division of the University of Wisconsin. 1919. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $2.50. (Engineering education series.) "Thorough non-mathematical text."-H. L. Cowing. MACHINES AND TOOLS. Dowd, Albert Atkins. TF Tools, chucks and fixtures; a comprehensive and detailed treatise covering the design and use of cutting tools and holding devices employed in turning and boring operations in modern manufacturing plants for obtaining accuracy and increasing production. 1915. Industrial press, N. Y. $2.50. Jones, Franklin Day. TF Planing and milling; a treatise on the use of planers, shapers, slotters, and various types of horizontal and vertical milling machines and their attachments. 1915. Industrial press, N. Y. $2.50. Jones, Franklin Day. TF Turning and boring; a specialized treatise for machinists, students in industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, including modern practice with engine lathes, turret lathes, vertical and horizontal boring machines. 1915. Industrial press, N. Y. $2.50. SHIP-BUILDING Estep, Harvey Cole. UU+ How wooden ships are built; a practical treatise on modern American wooden ship_construction, with a supplement on laying off wooden vessels. 1918. Penton publishing company, Cleveland, O. $2.00. Van Gaasbeek, Richard Montgomery. UU A practical course in wooden boat and ship building, the fundamental principles and practical methods described in detail, especially written for carpenters and other woodworkers who desire to engage in boat or ship building, and as a text-book for schools. 1919. F. J. Drake & company, Chicago. $1.50. Desmond, Charles. UUR Naval architecture simplified explained in non-technical terms 1918. Rudder publishing company, N. Y. $5.00. "A clear and practical treatment of the elements of this intricate subject sufficient for the design of boats and small ships-EL Qving FINE ARTS Camp, Walter Chauncey. VAV Keeping fit all the way: how to obtain and maintain health, strength and efficiency: illustrated with many photographs taken under the direction of the author. 1919. Harper. $1.30. "This is a book for the middle-aged man who finds himself growing sluggish for lack of exercise and over abundance of business cares"-Bocklist. Bragdon, Claude Fayette. WF Architecture and democracy. 1918. A. A. Knopf, N. Y. $2.00. "Seven essays dealing in a thoughtful but inspiring way with architecture, ornament. design and color, and their effective combination into buildings expressive of the artistic as well as economic motives of a people. Though not at all a textbook, it contains much of a practical nature. A book which makes the layman think."—Booklist. Greenberg, Abraham Benton, and Howe, C. B. Architectural drafting. 1913. Wiley. $2.00. series for vocational and industrial schools.) Hill, Wycliffe Aber. WFD (Wiley's technical 2WRN+ Ten million photoplay plots; master key to all dramatic plots. 1919. Feature photodrama company, Los Angeles. $5.00. Vanderwalker, Fred Norman. WS New stencils and their use; a practical working method for the average painter and decorator. 1918. F. J. Drake & company, Chicago. $1.25. LETTERING French, Thomas Ewing, and Meiklejohn, Robert. WSA The essentials of lettering; a manual for students and designers. 3d ed. 1912. McGraw-Hill book company, N. Y. $1.25. "Best single book on lettering."-School arts book. Gordon, William Hugh. WSA Lettering for commercial purposes. 1918. Signs of the times publishing co., Cincinnati. $3.00. "For show card writing and lettering on posters, etc. Text and examples cover lettering very fully and practically, but only a few examples of show card design are given."-H. L. Cowing. Hurst, Albert Edwin, and Nowak, C. J. WSA+ Hardware show card writing; application of various types of letters for mercantile purposes, newest and best methods, hints and pointers for practical work based on actual store card writing. 1913. D. Williams company, N. Y. $2.50. "Though the examples of work are special, the text on methods is of general application and arranged in a series of progressive lessons."-H. L. Cowing. Strong, Charles Jay, and Strong, L. S. WSA Strong's book of designs; a masterpiece of modern ornamental art, comprising new ideas and designs of every conceivable sort of interest to the sign painter, card writer and commercial artist; including air brush designs, posters, show cards, business cards, letter heads, sign ends, ribbons, scrolls, panels, book covers, hanging signs, also thirty pages of ornamental work in color and numerous alphabets, 1917. F. J. Drake & company, Chicago. $3.00. LITERATURE Knight, Lucian Lamar. Y9 Memorials of Dixie-land; orations, essays, sketches, and poems on topics historical, commemorative, literary and patriotic. 1919. Byrd printing company, Atlanta, Ga. $3.90. Barney, Laura Clifford. God's heroes; a drama in five acts. 1910. 12/6. 2YD Kegan Paul, London. "The story, which claims to be historical, deals with a modern Persian religious movement-apparently a semi-Christianized Mohammedanism-which is said to be spreading and has already had its martyrs."-Nation. Dalton, J. G. 2YP9 Lyra bicyclica; forty poets on the wheel. 1880. The author, Bos ton. Dunne, Finley Peter. YQ Mr. Dooley on making a will and other necessary evils. 1919. Scribner. $1.35. "We do not recommend the reading of Mr. Dooley. We insist upon it."-Catholic world. McArthur, Peter. YQ The red cow and her friends. 1919. Lane. $1.50. "A homely humor, a close acquaintance with animals, and a fellow-feeling for them on the part of the author, will explain the attention with which not a few non-bucolic readers will find themselves following the symptoms of the sickness of the 'purposeful and strong-minded red cow'; the problem of how to cure a cow of the bran habit, with bran at the present price, and all the simple accounts of the virtues and perversities of farm creatures, told by the Canadian humorist."-Booklist. Twain, Mark (pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens). YQ The curious republic of Gondour, and other whimsical sketches. 1919. Boni and Liveright, N. Y. $1.40. "The title sketch depicts a Utopia with a system of plural voting under which emulation, prestige, eligibility for marriage, and even the code of etiquette is based upon the number of votes wielded-the degree of the profundity of the bows accorded being nicely adjusted in each case. Other sketches and anecdotes, satiric and humorous, among them specimen newspaper scare-lines and interviews about the 'European war' which have lost their humor today. Originally written for the Galaxy, 1870-1871, and for the Buffalo Express. Palamas, Kostes. 2Y34 Kostes Palamas. Life immovable; first part, tr. by Aristides E. Phoutrides; with introduction and notes by the translator. 1919. Harvard university press. $2.00. "The first half of a collection of poems under this title by the secretary of the University of Athens. Too much of the symbolic, philosophical and mythological enter these pages to invite interest from any but the scholarly thinker. The translator furnishes a sketch of the poet and his work, and an analysis of the poems in this volume."-Booklist. Virgil. 2Y35 The Eneid of Virgil, in the English translation by John Conington; ed. by Francis G. Allinson and Anne C. E. Allinson. 1916. Scott, Foresman. $.44. (Lake English classics.) Virgil. 2Y35 Pvbli Vergili Maronis: Aeneis: Bvcolica: Georgica; the greater poems of Virgil; ed. by J. B. Greenough and G. L. Kittredge. 1895. Ginn. $1.92. McCourtie, William Bloss, comp. ZA Where and how to sell manuscripts; a directory for writers. 1919. Home correspondence school, Springfield, Mass. $2.50. ZY40 Ford, Jeremiah Denis Matthias. Main currents of Spanish literature. 1919. Holt. $2.00. "An authoritative well balanced summary of the epic, ballad, drama, lyric poetry, and the novel in Spain, arranged topically to bring out the high lights. Of particular interest is the section on contemporary Spanish and Spanish-American writers and their attitude to our country. Delivered as lectures at Lowell institute in 1918."-Booklist. |