“Not a treatise, but only a text-book, and only an elementary text-book. The authors nowhere pretend to thoroughness in treatment. They discuss only the principal types of ‘higher structures:’ the continuous girder, the drawbridge, the suspension bridge, and the metal arch (the inclusion of the cantilever bridge and three-hinged arch, which are statically determinate, seems somewhat inappropriate.)”—Engin. N.
“The book has many excellences, both in plan and detail. A few minor faults also remain.”
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“Despite its brevity and limitations, the work on higher structures by Merriman and Jacoby is the best general work in America to-day. Indeed, there is no other one book of the same size that gives so general a treatment. The volume is worthy of the attention of every student and designing engineer. It indicates the trend of modern analysis.” C. Derleth, jr.
| + + − | Technical Literature. 1: 268. Je. ’07. 1660w. |
* Merritt, Albert Newton. Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1. Houghton.
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This discussion was awarded first prize in the 1906 Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics. The phases of the subject presented are the following: Are American railway rates excessive? Federal control of rates is necessary. Objections to rate-fixing by a commission, The interstate commerce act and its interpretation by the commission and by the courts, and A rational plan for public control of rates.
Merwin, Samuel and Webster, Henry K. Comrade John. †$1.50. Macmillan.