20–174
“A treatise on the modern industrial controller, together with typical applications to the industries.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of articles originally published in the Electric Journal, with the addition of some new material. Partial list of contents: Introduction; Historical; Design details: How to read controller diagrams; Methods of accelerating motors; Starting characteristics of motors with different methods of control; Methods of speed control and dynamic braking; Direct current magnetic contactor controllers; Alternating current controllers; Resistors; Protective devices. There are 259 illustrations and an index.
Booklist 17:99 D ’20
JAMES, WILLIAM. Letters. 2v il *$10 Atlantic monthly press
20–23198
“It is, naturally enough, less the scientist and thinker than the man which is revealed in ‘The letters of William James,’ now edited, with all the necessary explanatory material by his son Henry James. This is as everybody should wish. For he was one of the greatest Americans in personal qualities as well as in powers of mind and these letters reveal him as he was. The energy and range of his mind and the prodigious richness of his personality are truly revealed in these two volumes. There are not a few valuable critical comments—such as his estimate of Santayana’s ‘Life of reason’—which are not otherwise accessible to the public, and there are no end of vivid impressions brilliantly or tenderly phrased.”—Springf’d Republican
+ Booklist 17:152 Ja ’21
“These letters—arranged in two comely volumes by the sure and skilful hand of William James’s son—are full of wise and occasionally profound little annotations upon contemporary American life and manners. They will be treasured for the simple and delightful bits of self-revelation that they afford.” H: H. Lappin