The work “has that temper which has marked the Freiberg work for a century, and which took shape in the like work of his predecessor, Von Cotta, and the many successive scholars of that school.... The aim of the treatise is to give a compendium of what is known as to the origin and distribution of all those deposits which afford important metallic elements, with a measure of attention to each in some proportion to its economical importance, and by the means of a systematic classification of the occurrences.”—Engin. N.
“Coming to the matter of this work, it may summarily be said that within its limits it is almost beyond praise. What is essential of all the important metalliferous ore deposits of the world is briefly, yet clearly, set forth, and this with a surprising evenness of presentation. The present writer knows of no other treatise dealing with as varied and wide-ranging features which approaches it in its accuracy and sufficiency. The work of the translator in his emendations as well as his renderings from the German is generally excellent.” N. S. Shaler.
+ + + Engin. N. 55: 191. F. 15, ’06. 2120w.
“The subject of ore deposits is treated in an exhaustive way.” E. W. S.
+ + J. Geol. 14: 659. O. ’06. 160w.
Becke, (George) Louis. Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“Given a setting which includes a man or two, a ship and a stretch of the Pacific, Mr. Louis Becke may be relied upon to reel off yarns of adventure to any extent.... The young hero is caught by a ‘southerly buster’ while sailing in Sydney harbour, and driven out between the towering ironbound Heads which guard the entrance to that famous haven, we settle down with confidence to the perusal of a string of adventures in which no break is likely to occur.... A [story] that should find much favour among boy readers.”—Ath.
“The opening part of the present book inclines to dullness. The critic may quarrel with such books for their lack of any artistic scheme of construction, and upon many other grounds. But it is a fact that the adventures do not halt.”