+ – Bib. World. 27: 476. Je. ’06. 880w.
“The design of this book is excellent. Yet we cannot praise the book unreservedly; the author is well up in the German critics and shows a tendency to assimilate their conclusions rather too readily. It is good to know German if one is going to write a book on the Greek Testament; but it is better to know Greek.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w. + Spec. 95: 1087. D. 23, ’05. 110w.
Macfarlane, Walter. Principles and practice of iron and steel manufacture. *$1.20. Longmans.
Written by one who understands teaching, this book is designed primarily for technical students, metallurgists and engineers.
“It has the advantage of being short and, in general, accurate and clear. Much of the data has not appeared in print before, but is evidently taken from personal experience. Of the individual chapters, those on the puddling process and tool steel are the best, while the discussion of steel castings and the short chapter on malleable castings are very far below the general standard.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ + – Engin. N. 56: 51. Jl. 12, ’06. 800w.
MacGrath, Harold. [Half a rogue.] †$1.50. Bobbs.
There is a curious mixture of elements in Mr. MacGrath’s new story. Play writing, municipal politics, social enmity, strikes, and always love—from beginning to end it is the one quality which leavens sordid states and makes burdens bearable. Katherine Challoner leaves the stage to marry John Bennington, Richard Warrington gives up playwriting to enter politics, and incidentally, to woo Patty Bennington. A malicious busy-body, who tries to recall ghosts of past indiscretions, fails, but not until Warrington loses in the mayorality race. Yet he does win Patty.