“Altho Mr. Stanwood has not the skill of a truly great biographer, yet the very logic of the events themselves, plainly and simply told, furnishes a stirring narrative.”
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“We are forced to say that this book can hardly fail to harm the general series to which it belongs.”
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Starr, Louis. Hygiene of the nursery. $1. Blakiston.
The seventh edition of a manual which includes the general regimen and feeding of infants and children, massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life.
Stauffer, David McNeely. Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
The change that has been made in the practice of tunneling by the introduction of high explosives, by the use of machine drills, by special appliances for handling the debris or protecting the roof of the tunnel and by the employment of electric power and light has made the present hand-book a necessity. The work is illustrated by examples taken from actual recent work in the United States and in foreign countries.