| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 530w. |
“Much of the narrative is avowedly based on the work of others, but he has combined and arranged the material in such a way as to produce a well-proportioned historical sketch. The book is alive with incident, adventure, and odd happenings in the days of Indian trappers, army camps, and frontier scouts.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 120w. |
“A book of far more than ordinary interest. Whatever else is attempted, Mr. Parrish has at least set forth the romantic aspects of the story in a most vivid and fascinating way.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 637. N. ’07. 90w. |
Parshall, Horace Field, and Hobart, Henry Metcalfe. Electric railway engineering. *$10. Van Nostrand.
W 7–100.
“This book concerns itself mainly with the application of electricity to heavy traction as distinguished from tramway work, and gives an exceedingly comprehensive view of the progress which the new motive power has made up to the present time, besides containing a great store of collected data regarding the results obtained in representative examples of its application.”—Ath.
“A high standard of excellence has been maintained in the preparation of the volume.”