V. 2. Business writing. J. M. Lee. ed. Considers business English in written form for correspondence, advertising, journalism, report-writing, preparing copy for the printer, proof-reading, etc.
Editor is director, department of journalism, College of the City of New York.
The work is an important contribution to the literature of the subject and valuable to executives, salesmen and others engaged in business.
The hen at work: a brief manual of home poultry culture. Ernest Cobb. Putnam. 233p. $1.50.
A book on keeping hens for egg production. Considers breeds, housing, hatching, raising chickens, diseases, etc. Contains a chapter on ducks.
American machinists’ handbook and dictionary of shop terms: a reference book of machine shop and drawing room data, methods and definitions. 3d. ed. thoroughly rev. and enl. F. H. Colvin and F. A. Stanley. McGraw. 758p. $4.00.
Revision of a standard machine shop and drafting room reference book, enlarged by 160 pages above the last previous ed., published in 1914, and the original text revised where necessary.
Authors are respectively editor and associate editor of American Machinist.
Automotive ignition systems; prepared in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin. E. L. Consoliver, and G. I. Mitchell. McGraw. 269p. $2.50 (Engineering education series)
Correspondence school text book dealing plainly with the various gasoline engine ignition systems used on automobiles, trucks, tractors and airplanes. Addressed to workers who have to install, adjust, and repair ignition systems in factories and shops, and to automobile owners.