THE PREVENTION OF DAMPNESS IN BUILDINGS; with Remarks on the Causes, Nature and Effects of Saline, Efflorescences and Dry-rot, for Architects, Builders, Overseers, Plasterers Painters and House Owners. By Adolf Wilhelm Keim. Translated from the German of the second revised Edition by M. J. Salter, F.I.C. F.C.S. Eight Coloured Plates and Thirteen Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 115 pp. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 3d. home; 5s. 4d. abroad.)

Contents.

The Various Causes of Dampness and Decay of the Masonry of Buildings, and the Structural and Hygienic Evils of the Same -- Precautionary Measures during Building against Dampness and Efflorescence -- Methods of Remedying Dampness and Efflorescences in the Walls of Old Buildings -- The Artificial Drying of New Houses, as well as Old Damp Dwellings and the Theory of the Hardening of Mortar -- New, Certain and Permanently Efficient Methods for Drying Old Damp Walls and Dwellings -- The Cause and Origin of Dry-rot: its Injurious Effect on Health, its Destructive Action on Buildings, and its Successful Repression -- Methods of Preventing Dry-rot to be Adopted During Construction -- Old Methods of Preventing Dry-rot -- Recent and More Efficient Remedies for Dry-rot -- Index.

HANDBOOK OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING, AND THEIR ALLIED TRADES AND SUBJECTS. By Augustine C. Passmore. Demy 8vo. 380 pp. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 8s. home; 8s. 6d, abroad.)