+Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w.

“While in the general discussion of the trust problem Mr. Hirst’s book will be a helpful factor, it would have been still more helpful had it included some later information, especially concerning the results of governmental investigation of monopolies in this country.”

+ −Outlook. 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, ed. Henley’s twentieth century book of recipes, formulas and processes, containing nearly ten thousand selected scientific, chemical, technical and household recipes, formulas and processes for use in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home. $3 Henley.

7–8246.

A handbook for various processes and recipes needed by every one. “Such information, for instance, as the formula for photographic developer, the composition of the various paint-pigments, the manufacture of glue or of solder, or the thousand and one detailed bits of information which come up, as the title reads ‘in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home’—such a book as this is very useful.” (Engin. N.)


“It seems rather out of its province to endeavor to give in so short a space as can be allowed to any one article any account of the larger materials of engineering.”

+ −Engin. N. 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter. Modern steam engineering, in theory and practice. $3. Henley.