Food facts for the home-maker. L. S. Harvey. Houghton. 314p. $2.50.
“This book is intended to be a help to the young housekeeper who is starting out in the new home without either a knowledge of science or the technical training which could help her. The book is also intended to help those women who have kept house for years and who are excellent cooks and careful planners. It should give a scientific foundation to their technical skill ... perhaps showing them ways in which they may shorten processes and thus save time and energy.” Preface.
Considers the various articles of diet and their food values, kitchen arrangement and equipment, buying food for infants and young children, school children, invalids. Contains recipes, and could supplement cook books.
Partly based on lectures to classes. Author is town dietitian, Brookline, Mass.
Concrete work; a book to aid the self-development of workers in concrete and for students in engineering. W. K. Hatt and W. C. Voss. v. 1. Wiley. 451p. $4.00. (Wiley technical series: Industrial texts).
The first book in a series of industrial texts written by teachers who trained men in military schools during the War, the methods and materials worked out in that practice being utilized in the preparation of these texts. The object of the authors is to present scientific principles with their practical applications in a manner intelligible to the worker or novice in concrete work, in order to enable him to fit himself for a foreman’s position or enter into business as a local contractor. The present work is in 2 vols., the second of which is now in press, and the matter is so arranged that the two should be used together.
Authors are respectively professor of civil engineering, Purdue University, and head, department of architectural construction, Wentworth Institute.
Motor car upholstering; a plainly written book on the fundamentals of motor car trimming and upholstering. Phila., Hirst-Roger Co. 180p. $2.50.
Designed as an instruction book in vehicle trimming for men taking up that kind of work. Describes the materials, tools and methods employed, and contains many illustrations.
The matter is well prepared and reliable.