Wood, William. Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the great imperial war. Definitive ed. $2.50. Little.
6–15420.
A new edition which includes revisions and additional notes. The author gives much detail concerning the personnel and technical equipment of the army and of the navy, and emphasizes particularly the part played by the naval forces in the campaign against Quebec.
| + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 973. Jl. ’06. 100w. |
“The author writes with clearness and force. His characterizations are often presented with succinct and epigrammatic phrase. One defect in the author’s treatment is that all men are either black or white; none are, to use Professor Morse Stephen’s illuminating phrase, pale gray. The author’s strong convictions on present-day subjects ... show a lack of judicial restraint.” S. J. McLean.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 438. Mr. ’07. 680w. |
Wood, William Wallace. Walschaert locomotive valve gear. $1.50. Henley.
6–46770.
A practical treatise on the locomotive valve actuating mechanism, originally invented by Egide Walschaert, with the history of the development by American and European engine designers, and its evolution into the mechanically correct locomotive valve gear of the present day.