"Mr. Reynolds has supplied a want, and has supplied it well. We can confidently recommend the book, not only to the practical driver, but to everyone who takes an interest in the performance of locomotive engines."—The Engineer.

"Mr. Reynolds has opened a new chapter in the literature of the day. This admirable practical treatise, of the practical utility of which we have to speak in terms of warm commendation."—AthenÆum.

"Evidently the work of one who knows his subject thoroughly."—Railway Service Gazette.

"Were the cautions and rules given in the book to become part of the every-day working of our engine-drivers, we might have fewer distressing accidents to deplore."—Scotsman.

"The author is thoroughly acquainted with his subjects, and his advice on the various points treated is clear and practical.... He has produced a manual which is an exceedingly useful one for the class for whom it is specially intended."—Engineering.

"Our author leaves no stone unturned. He is determined that his readers shall not only know something about the stationary engine, but all about it."—Engineer.

"An engineman who has mastered the contents of Mr.Reynolds's book will require but little actual experience with boilers and engines before he can be trusted to look after them."—English Mechanic.

"From the technical knowledge of the author it will appeal to the railway man of to-day more forcibly than anything written by Dr. Smiles.... The volume contains information of a technical kind, and facts that every driver should be familiar with."—English Mechanic.

"We should be glad to see this book in the possession of everyone in the kingdom who has ever laid, or is to lay, hands on a locomotive engine."—Iron.

"A popular explanation of the different brakes. It will be of great assistance in forming public opinion, and will be studied with benefit by those who take an interest in the brake."—English Mechanic.

"Written with sufficient technical detail to enable the principle and relative connection of the various parts of each particular brake to be readily grasped."—Mechanical World.

"From first to last perfectly fascinating. Wilkie Collins's most thrilling conceptions are thrown into the shade by true incidents, endless in their variety, related in every page."—North British Mail.

"Anyone who wishes to get a real insight into railway life cannot do better than read 'Engine-Driving Life' for himself; and if he once take it up he will find that the author's enthusiasm and real love of the engine-driving profession will carry him on till he has read every page."—Saturday Review.

"This admirable work is well suited to accomplish its object, being the honest workmanship of a competent engineer."—Glasgow Herald.

"A most meritorious work, giving in a succinct and practical form all the information an engine-minder desirous of mastering the scientific principles of his daily calling would require."—The Miller.

"A boon to those who are striving to become efficient mechanics."—Daily Chronicle.

"The most systematic and valuable work upon water supply hitherto produced in English, or in any other language.... Mr. Humber's work is characterised almost throughout by an exhaustiveness much more distinctive of French and German than of English technical treatises."—Engineer.

"We can congratulate Mr. Humber on having been able to give so large an amount of Information on a subject so important as the water supply of cities and towns. The plates, fifty in number, are mostly drawings of executed works, and alone would have commanded the attention of every engineer whose practice may lie in this branch of the profession."—Builder.

"A very valuable contribution to the standard literature of civil engineering. In addition to elevations, plans and sections, large scale details are given which very much enhance the instructive worth of those illustrations."—Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal.

"Mr. Humber's stately volumes, lately issued—in which the most important bridges erected during the last five years, under the direction of the late Mr. Brunel, Sir W. Cubitt, Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. Page, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Hemans, and others among our most eminent engineers, are drawn and specified in great detail."—Engineer.

"The formulae are neatly expressed, and the diagrams good."—AthenÆum.

"We heartily commend this really handy book to our engineer and architect readers."—English Mechanic.

"Valuable alike to the student, tyro, and the experienced practitioner, it will always rank future, as it has hitherto done, as the standard treatise on that particular subject."—Engineer.

"There is no greater authority than Barlow."—Building News.

"As a scientific work of the first class, it deserves a foremost place on the bookshelves of every civil engineer and practical mechanic."—English Mechanic.

"Handsomely lithographed and printed. It will find favour with many who desire to preserve in a permanent form copies of the plans and specifications prepared for the guidance of the contractors for many important engineering works."—Engineer.

"Mr. Humber has done the profession good and true service, by the fine collection of examples he has here brought before the profession and the public."—Practical Mechanic's Journal.

"The drawings have a constantly increasing value, and whoever desires to possess clear representations of the two great works carried out by our Metropolitan Board will obtain Mr. Humber's volume."—Engineer.

"We gladly welcome another year's issue of this valuable publication from the able pen of Mr. Humber. The accuracy and general excellence of this work are well known, while its usefulness in giving the measurements and details of some of the latest examples of engineering, as carried out by the most eminent men in the profession, cannot be too highly prized."—Artisan.

"Mr. Graham's book will find a place wherever graphic and analytic statics are used or studied."—Engineer.

"The work is excellent from a practical point of view, and has evidently been prepared with much care. The directions for working are ample, and are illustrated by an abundance of well-selected examples. It is an excellent text-book for the practical draughtsman."—AthenÆum.

"The engineer or architect will here find ready to his hand rules for solving nearly every mathematical difficulty that may arise in his practice. The rules are in all cases explained by means of examples, in which every step of the process is clearly worked out."—Builder.

"One of the most serviceable books for practical mechanics.... It is an instructive book for the student, and a text-book for him who, having once mastered the subjects it treats of, needs occasionally to refresh his memory upon them."—Building News.

"Alike valuable to students and engineers in practice; its study will prevent the annoyance of avoidable failures, and assist them to select the readiest means of successfully carrying out any given work connected with hydraulic engineering."—Mining Journal.

"It is, of all English books on the subject, the one nearest to completeness.... From the good arrangement of the matter, the clear explanations, and abundance of formulÆ, the carefully calculated tables, and, above all, the thorough acquaintance with both theory and construction, which is displayed from first to last, the book will be found to be an acquisition."—Architect.

"The author has had a wide experience in hydraulic engineering and has been a careful observer of the facts which have come under his notice, and from the great mass of material at his command he has constructed a manual which may be accepted as a trustworthy guide to this branch of the engineer's profession. We can heartily recommend this volume to all who desire to be acquainted with the latest development of this important subject."—Engineering.

"The standard-work in this department of mechanics."—Scotsman.

"The most useful feature of this work is its freedom from what is superannuated, and its thorough adoption of recent experiments; the text is, in fact, in great part a short account of the great modern experiments."—Nature.

"The new matter added to Mr. Dempsey's excellent work is characterised by the comprehensive grasp and accuracy of detail for which the name of Mr. D. K. Clark is a sufficient voucher."—AthenÆum.

"As a work on recent practice in drainage engineering, the book is to be commended to all who are making that branch of engineering science their special study."—Iron.

"A comprehensive manual on drainage engineering, and a useful introduction to the student."—Building News.

"As a small practical treatise on the water supply of towns, and on some applications of water-power, the work is in many respects excellent."—Engineering.

"The author has collated the results deduced from the experiments of the most eminent authorities, and has presented them in a compact and practical form, accompanied by very clear and detailed explanations.... The application of water as a motive power is treated very carefully and exhaustively."—Builder.

"For anyone who desires to begin the study of hydraulics with a consideration of the practical applications of the science there is no better guide."—Architect.

"We recommend all interested in harbour works—and, indeed, those concerned in the improvements of rivers generally—to read Mr. Mann's interesting work on the treatment of river bars."—Engineer.

"This handy little book enters so minutely into every detail connected with the construction of roof trusses, that no student need be ignorant of these matters."—Practical Engineer.

"A book for the engineer, the directors, the managers; and, in short, all who wish for information on railway matters will find a perfect encyclopÆdia in 'Safe Railway Working.'"—Railway Review.

"We commend the remarks on railway signalling to all railway managers, especially where a uniform code and practice is advocated."—Herepath's Railway Journal.

"The author may be congratulated on having collected, in a very convenient form, much valuable information on the principal questions affecting the safe working of railways."—Railway Engineer.

"The standard text-book for all engineers regarding skew arches is Mr. Buck's treatise, and it would be impossible to consult a better."—Engineer.

"Mr. Buck's treatise is recognised as a standard text-book, and his treatment has divested the subject of many of the intricacies supposed to belong to it. As a guide to the engineer and architect, on a confessedly difficult subject, Mr. Buck's work is unsurpassed."—Building News.

"Many of the methods given are of extreme practical value to the mason; and the observations on the form of arch, the rules for ordering the stone, and the construction of the templates will be found of considerable use. We commend the book to the engineering profession."—Building News.

"Will be regarded by civil engineers as of the utmost value, and calculated to save much time and obviate many mistakes."—Colliery Guardian.

"The best forms of instruments are described as to their construction, uses and modes of employment, and there are innumerable hints on work and equipment such as the author, in his experience as surveyor, draughtsman, and teacher, has found necessary, and which the student in his inexperience will find most serviceable."—Engineer.

"The latest treatise in the English language on surveying, and we have no hesitation in saying that the student will find it a better guide than any of its predecessors.... Deserves to be recognised as the first book which should be put in the hands of a pupil of Civil Engineering, and every gentleman of education who sets out for the Colonies would find it well to have a copy."—Architect.

"A valuable vade-mecum for the surveyor. We can recommend this book as containing an admirable supplement to the teaching of the accomplished surveyor."—AthenÆum.

"As a text-book we should advise all surveyors to place it in their libraries, and study well the matured instructions afforded in its pages."—Colliery Guardian.

"The author brings to his work a fortunate union of theory and practical experience which, aided by a clear and lucid style of writing, renders the book a very useful one."—Builder.

"This book must prove of great value to the student. We have no hesitation in recommending it, feeling assured that it will more than repay a careful study."—Mechanical World.

"A most useful and well arranged book. We can strongly recommend it as a carefully-written and valuable text-book. It enjoys a well-deserved repute among surveyors."—Builder.

"This volume cannot fail to prove of the utmost practical utility. It may be safely recommended to all students who aspire to become clean and expert surveyors."—Mining Journal.

"The book is very handy; the separate tables of sines and tangents to every minute will make it useful for many other purposes, the genuine traverse tables existing all the same."—AthenÆum.

"Every person engaged in engineering field operations will estimate the importance of such a work and the amount of valuable time which will be saved by reference to a set of reliable tables prepared with the accuracy and fulness of those given in this volume."—Railway News.

"The text-book on levelling in most of our engineering schools and colleges."—Engineer.

"The publishers have rendered a substantial service to the profession, especially to the younger members, by bringing out the present edition of Mr. Simms's useful work.—Engineering.

"The simple fact that a fourth edition has been called for is the best testimony to its merits. No words of praise from us can strengthen the position so well and so steadily maintained by this work. Sir Charles Warren has revised the entire work, and made such additions as were necessary to bring every portion of the contents up to the present date."—Broad Arrow.

"The estimation in which Mr. Simms's book on tunnelling has been held for over thirty years cannot be more truly expressed than in the words of the late Prof. Rankine:—'The best source of information on the subject of tunnels is Mr. F. W. Simms's work on Practical Tunnelling.'"—Architect.

"It has been regarded from the first as a text-book of the subject.... Mr. Clark has added immensely to the value of the book."—Engineer.

"All interested in tramways must refer to it, as all railway engineers have turned to the author's work 'Railway Machinery.'"—Engineer.

"An exhaustive and practical work on tramways, in which the history of this kind of locomotion, and a description and cost of the various modes of laying tramways, are to be found."—Building News.

"The best form of rails, the best mode of construction, and the best mechanical appliances are so fairly indicated in the work under review, that any engineer about to construct a tramway will be enabled at once to obtain the practical information which will be of most service to him."—AthenÆum.

"Each table is printed on a small card, which, being placed on the theodolite, leaves the hands free to manipulate the instrument—no small advantage as regards the rapidity of work."—Engineer.

"Very handy; a man may know that all his day's work must fall on two of these cards, which he puts into his own card-case, and leaves the rest behind."—AthenÆum.

"The way in which accuracy is attained, by a simple division of each cross section into three elements, two in which are constant and one variable, is ingenious."—AthenÆum.

"The aim the author has set before him, viz., to show the effects of heat upon metallic and other structures, is a laudable one, for this is a branch of physics upon which the engineer or architect can find but little reliable and comprehensive data in books."—Builder.

"Whoever is concerned to know the effect of changes of temperature on such structures as suspension bridges and the like, could not do better than consult Mr. Keily's valuable and handy exposition of the geometrical principles involved in these changes."—Scotsman.

"A great amount of practical information, very admirably arranged, and available for rough estimates, as well as for the more exact calculations required in the engineer's and contractor's offices."—Artizan.

"The student cannot find a better little book on this subject."—Engineer.

"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 designs 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."—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.

"Well adapted to give the young steamship engineer or marine engine and boiler maker a general introduction into his practical work."—Mechanical World.

"We feel sure that this thoroughly revised edition will continue to be as popular in the future as it has been in the past, as, for its size, it contains more useful information than any similar treatise."—Industries.

"As a compendious and useful guide to engineers of our mercantile and royal naval services, we should say it cannot be surpassed."—Building News.

"The information given is both sound and sensible, and well qualified to direct young sea-going hands on the straight road to the extra chief's certificate.... Most useful to surveyors, inspectors, draughtsmen, and young engineers."—Glasgow Herald.

"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.

"A useful introduction to the more elaborate text-books."—Scotsman.

"To a student who has the requisite desire and resolve to attain a thorough knowledge, Mr. Brewer offers decidedly useful help."—AthenÆum.

"The student who learns from these drawings will have nothing to unlearn."—Engineer.

"The examples chosen are essentially practical, and are such as should prove of service to engineers generally, while admirably fulfilling their specific purpose."—Mechanical World.

"This work is very ably written, and is illustrated by diagrams and carefully worked calculations. The work should be in the hands of every sailmaker, whether employer or employed, as it cannot fail to assist them in the pursuit of their important avocations."—Isle of Wight Herald.

"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.

"The author of this work has rendered a distinct service to all interested in the art of sailmaking. The subject of which he treats is a congenial one. Mr. Sadler is a practical sailmaker, and has devoted years of careful observation and study to the subject; and the results of the experience thus gained he has set forth in the volume before us."—Steamship.

"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.

"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.

"Mr. Davies has endeavoured to bring before his readers the best of everything in modern mining appliances. His work carries internal evidence of the author's impartiality, and this constitutes one of the great merits of the book. Throughout his work the criticisms are based on his own or other reliable experience."—Iron and Steel Trades' Journal.

"The work deals with nearly every class of machinery or apparatus likely to be met with or required in connection with metalliferous mining, and is one which we have every confidence in recommending."—Practical Engineer.

"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.

"A book that will not only be useful to the geologist, the practical miner, and the metallurgist, but also very interesting to the general public."—Iron.

"As a history of the present state of mining throughout the world this book has a real value, end it supplies an actual want."—AthenÆum.

"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.

"One of the most valuable works of reference of modern times. Mr. Hunt, as Keeper of Mining Records of the United Kingdom, has had opportunities for such a task not enjoyed by anyone else, and has evidently made the most of them.... The language and style adopted are good, and the treatment of the various subjects laborious, conscientious, and scientific."—Engineering.

"The book is, in fact, 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 everyone interested in the development of the mining and metallurgical industries of this Country.—AthenÆum.

"A mass of Information not elsewhere available, and of the greatest value to those who may be interested in our great mineral industries."—Engineer.

"Will be highly esteemed by colliery owners and lessees, mining engineers, and students generally who require to be acquainted with the best means of securing the drainage of mines. It is a most valuable work, and stands almost alone in the literature of steam pumping machinery."—Colliery Guardian.

"Much valuable Information is given, so that the book is thoroughly worthy of an extensive circulation amongst practical men and purchasers of machinery."'—Mining Journal.

"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.

"Invaluable to anyone who is working up for an examination on mining subjects."—Iron and Coal Trades Review.

"The author has done his work in an exceedingly 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 Milne's handbook is sure to be received with favour by all connected with mining, and will be extremely popular among students."—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.

"Miners and metallurgists will find in this work a useful vade-mecum containing a mass of rules, formulÆ, tables, and various other information, the necessity for reference to which occurs in. their daily duties."—Iron.

"Mr. Lintern's book forms a valuable and thoroughly trustworthy guide."—Iron and Coal Trades Review.

"An interesting and invaluable work."—Colliery Guardian.

"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.

"A veritable mine of information on the subject of explosives employed for military, mining, and blasting purposes."—Army and Navy Gazette.

"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 at the same time has 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 very 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.).

"Mr. Pamely's work is in all respects worthy of our admiration. No person in any responsible position connected with mines should be without a copy."—Westminster Review.

"The book is one which must find a place on the shelves of all interested in coal and iron production, and in the iron, steel and other metallurgical industries."—Engineer.

"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.

"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.

"A clearly and well-written manual on the granite industry."—Scotsman.

"An interesting work, which will be deservedly esteemed."—Colliery Guardian.

"An exceedingly interesting and valuable monograph on a subject which has hitherto received unaccountably little attention in the shape of systematic literary treatment."—Scottish Leader.

"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.

"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.

"It is most carefully written and illustrated with capital drawings and diagrams. In fact, it is the work of an expert for experts, by whom it will be prized as an indispensable text-book."—Bristol Mercury.

"Carefully written, it has the merit of brevity and conciseness, as to less important points, while all material matters are very fully and thoroughly entered into."—Standard.

"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.

"Constitutes a systematic and careful account of our present knowledge of the origin and occurrence of the iron ores of Great Britain, and embraces a description of the means employed in reaching and working these ores."—Iron.

"Mr. Kendall is a great authority on this subject and writes from personal observation."—Colliery Guardian.

"Mr. Kendall's book is thoroughly well done. In it there are the outlines of the history of ore mining in every centre and there is everything that we want to know as to the character of the ores of each district, their commercial value and the cost of working them."—Iron and Steel Trades Journal.

"There is very little in the shape of formulÆ or data which the electrician is likely to want in a hurry which cannot be found in its pages."—Practical Engineer.

"A very useful book of reference for daily use in practical electrical engineering and its various applications to the industries of the present day."—Iron.

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

"Well arranged and compact. The 'Electrical Engineer's Pocket-Book' is a good one."—Electrician.

"Strongly recommended to those engaged in the various 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.

"This is an attempt to state in the simplest language the precautions which should be adopted in installing the electric light, and to give information, for the guidance of those who have to run the plant when installed. The book is well worth the perusal of the workmen for whom it is written."—Electrical Review.

"We have read this book with a good deal of pleasure. We believe that the book will be of use to practical workmen, who will not be alarmed by finding mathematical formulÆ which they are unable to understand."—Electrical Plant.

"Eminently practical and useful.... Ought to be in the hands of everyone in charge of an electric light plant."—Electrical Engineer.

"Mr. Urquhart has succeeded in producing a really capital book, which we have no hesitation in recommending to the notice of working electricians and electrical engineers."—Mechanical World.

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

"Contains a good deal of very interesting information, especially in the parts where the author gives dimensions and working costs."—Electrical Engineer.

"A miniature 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.

"The book is by far the best that we have yet met with on the subject."—AthenÆum.

"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.

"The author deals with his subject in a style so popular as to make his volume a handbook of great practical value to engineer contractors and electricians in charge of lighting installations."—Scotsman.

"'Dynamo Construction' more than sustains the high character of the author's previous publications. It is sure to be widely read by the large and rapidly-increasing number of practical electricians."—Glasgow Herald.

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

"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 5,000 references will be found. The inclusion of such comparatively modern words as 'impedence,' 'reluctance,' &c., shows that the author has desired to be up to date, and indeed there are other indications of carefulness of compilation. The work is one which does the author great credit and it should prove of great value, especially to students."—Electrical Review.

"We have found the book very complete and reliable, and can, therefore, commend it heartily."—Mechanical World.

"Very complete and contains a large amount of useful information."—Industries.

"An encyclopÆdia of electrical science in the compass of a dictionary. The information given is sound and clear. The book is well printed, well illustrated, and well up to date, and may be confidently recommended."—Builder.

"We hail the appearance of this little work as one which will meet a want that has been keenly felt for some time.... The author is to be congratulated on the excellent manner in which he has accomplished his task."—Practical Engineer.

"The volume is excellently printed and illustrated, and should form part of the library of every one who is directly or indirectly connected with electrical matters."—Hardware Trade Journal.

"The subject of ship electric lighting is one of vast importance in these days, and Mr. Urquhart is to be highly complimented for placing such a valuable work at the service of the practical marine electrician."—The Steamship.

"Distinctly a book which of its kind stands almost alone, and for which there should be a demand."—Electrical Review.

"Anyone 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.

"This volume is one of the most complete expositions 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.

"This volume promises to be the recognised handbook in all advanced classes where building construction is taught from a practical point of view. We strongly commend the book to the notice of all teachers of building construction."—Technical World.

"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 students' 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."—Jour. Inst. Brit. Archts.

"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 a architect's book of reference."—Journal of Royal Institution 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.

"A thoroughly useful and comprehensive work."—British Architect.

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"This edition will be found the most complete treatise on the principles of measuring and valuing artificers' work that has yet been published."—Building News.

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"Ought to be in every architect's and every builder's library."—Builder.

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"A very compact and handy guide to the constellations."—AthenÆum.

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"The translation is as felicitious as it is accurate."—Nature.

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"Natural philosophy has had few exponents more able or better skilled in the art of popularising the subject than Dr. Lardner; and Mr. Loewy is doing good service in fitting this treatise, and the others of the series, for use at the present time."—Scotsman.

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"The volume before us has been carefully edited, augmented to nearly twice the bulk of the former edition, and all the most recent matter has been added.... It is a valuable text-book."—Nature.

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"As regards the illustrations of the work, no pains have been spared to make them as representative and characteristic as possible, so as to be practically useful to the Farmer and Grazier."

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"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.

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

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