REVIEWS OF THE PRESS.
The Builder:
"We gladly welcome Mr. Newman's book on slips in earthworks as an important contribution to a right comprehension of such matters."
"There is much in this book that will at all events guide the mind of the student to the points—and there are many of them—which have to be weighed by designers of engineering works, and which, if attended to and fixed on the memory, will certainly guard them against probable if not against possible slips in earthwork."
"There is much to read, and read carefully, on all these points."
"He then presents us with sixteen maxims to be observed, where practicable, in the consideration of the location of earthworks (hints as to what should be avoided, which are of considerable value).... The capital cost of a work and the cost of its maintenance may both be very sensibly reduced by attention to all the points alluded to by the author."
"We are glad to see that the author enters at some length into the subject of the due provision of drainage at the backs of retaining walls, a matter so often neglected or overlooked, and carries this subject to a far larger one, the causes which tend to disturb the repose of dock walls. His remarks on these matters are well worthy of consideration, and are thoroughly practical, and the items which have to be taken into account in the necessary statical calculations very well introduced."
"In conclusion we may say that there is plenty of good useful information to be obtained from this work, which touches a subject possessing an exceedingly scanty vocabulary."
"It contains an immense deal of matter which must be swallowed sooner or later by every one who desires to be a good engineer."
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