The Cumulative Book Review Digest, Volume 1H.W. Wilson Company, 1905 |
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Page 233 - A practical treatise of 320 pages, fully illustrated by 175 detailed illustrations, setting forth the principles of gas engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer-gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer-gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.
Page 76 - Counter-Rats." 113. CORY AT (Thomas). — Coryats Crudities hastily gobled up in five Moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia comonly called the Grisons country, Heluetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling Members of this Kingdome (this title is on an engraved frontispiece, by W.
Page 289 - A compact Itinerary of the British Isles, Belgium, and Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy.
Page 146 - The Poor and the Land: Being a Report on the Salvation Army Colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England, with Scheme of National Land Settlement...
Page 12 - A series of addresses suggestive of the value of classical studies to education...
Page 93 - Moreover, it undertakes to give a comprehensive statement of the elementary principles upon which all relief giving, whether public or private, should rest ; and it correlates these principles with the general facts of economics and sociology in such a way as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that the author has mastered his subject. The point of view of the book is constructive throughout...
Page 21 - MARINE ENGINES AND BOILERS. Their Design and Construction. A Handbook for the Use of Students, Engineers, and Naval Constructors. Based on the Work " Berechnung und Konstruktion der Schiffsmaschinen und Kessel,
Page 29 - The chief merit of the book from the theoretical side is that it gives an intelligent statement of the view-points of all the leading sociological writers. The chief merit from the practical side is that it touches upon a variety of vital and interesting problems in such a way as to tempt the student to go foward and specialize.
Page 105 - Deserving of a cordial welcome. The first attempt which I have seen to bring into suitable compass, in an intelligible manner, the various problems which are occupying the attention of physicists and chemists. The author has established his character as a clear expositor.
Page 252 - Bushido is the code of moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to observe. It is not a written code ; at best, it consists of a few maxims handed down from mouth to mouth or coming from the pen of some wellknown warrior or savant. More frequently it is a code...