Perrigo, Charles Oscar E. Modern American lathe practice. $2.50. Henley.
7–4843.
“This is a lathe book from beginning to end.... A few chapters are given up to the history and development of the lathe and also to lathe design.... A number of chapters are devoted to the description of the latest production of our prominent manufacturers.... There are also chapters on variable speed devices, lathe tools and attachments, turret lathes, special lathes and electrically-driven lathes. The book is well illustrated.”—Engin. N.
“Just the kind of a book which one delights to consult, a masterly treatment of the subject in hand.” Wm. W. Bird.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 443. Ap. 16, ’07. 210w. |
Perry, Bliss. Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35721.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By all odds the most judicial and satisfactory account of that disconcerting genius yet published. A kind of indecision or hesitancy to pronounce a definitive Judgment makes his book a little disappointing to a reader who looks to his biographer for his opinions as well as for his information.”