“A folio volume with a ‘stunning’ cover, and with rhymes and pictures above the average in effectiveness and genuine wit.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 766. D. ’06. 40w.
Perrigo, Charles Oscar Eugene. Machine shop construction, equipment and management. $5. Henley.
The author “attempts in this book to give a comprehensive didactic treatment of this subject. There are two main divisions of this subject which should be kept distinct; they discuss (1) The plant, or the producing implement, and (2) Operation, or the handling of this implement. They are just as separate and independent as are construction and operation in the case of railways: though inter-related at many points, they are the concern of different classes of men, based on wholly different sets of principles, and have to meet quite different conditions.” (Engin. N.)
“The work has much interest as a record, even though far from thorough or comprehensive, of the methods and object of laying out a machine shop and controlling its operation.”
+ Engin. N. 55: 194. F. 15, ’06. 1340W.
Perry, Bliss. Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Confronted by a figure looming eccentrically large in its environment, as persistently and perversely suggestive of the picturesque as that of Carlyle, and equally rich in opportunities for misinterpretation, the author has set himself to depict it with much the thoroughness and anatomical accuracy shown by the old Dutch masters in the great period of Dutch painting.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr. Perry’s work is modest in compass, but shows throughout that he has studied the documents with care and patience.... In general the narrative portions are well told and properly balanced.... Much the most important sections of the book deal with sources and here Mr. Perry has a field almost entirely his own.” (Nation.)