Building News:
"Mr. John Newman, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., has written a volume on a subject that has hitherto only been treated of cursorily."
"Useful advice is given which the railway engineer and earthwork contractor may profit by."
"The book contains a fund of useful information."
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Builder's Reporter and Engineering Times:
"The book which Mr. John Newman has written imparts a new interest to earthworks. It is in fact a sort of pathological treatise, and as such may be said to be unique among books on construction, for in them failures are rarely recognised. Now in Mr. Newman's volume the majority of the pages relate to failures, and from them the reader infers how they are to be avoided, and thus to form earthworks that will endure longer than those which are executed without much regard to risks."
"The manner of dealing with the subsidences when they occur, as well as providing against them, will be found described in the book."
"It can be said that the subject is thoroughly investigated, and contractors as well as engineers can learn much from Mr. Newman's book."
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