A complete manual for students. “In plan it is a text-book and pocket manual combined, while in scope its aim is not to cover the whole field of surveying, but to treat with thoroughness fundamental principles and methods. As a text-book, it deals with the theory of surveying, while as a manual it gives many practical suggestions and directions which are usually left for oral instruction.” (Tech. Lit.)
“Prof. Tracy has written a book of great value to the surveyor, both in his student days and in the first years of his practice.”
| + | Engin. N. 58: 569. D. 12, ’07. 730w. | |
| Technical Literature. 2: 458. N. ’07. 760w. |
Tracy, Louis. [Captain of the Kansas.] $1.50. Clode, E. J.
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Mr. Tracy uses his well-tested ingredients again,—the sea, shipwreck, fights with cannibals, hairbreadth escapes, etc. “He has valiantly succeeded in making the primary colours once more effective. Even in Chile the black angel whose disciple puts sticks of dynamite among the coals of a seagoing steamer is not ill-served. The voyage of that steamer is a triumph of pyrotechnical narrative, assisted by a map.... Peril from cannibals obliges a physician to reserve a bullet for the heroine, but Ossa on Pelion could not have flattened the good cherub who looked after her and her lover.” (Ath.)
“If heartiness can freshen a stale phrase, Mr. Tracy’s romance may be described as a thrilling novel of adventure.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 120w. |