A sympathetic treatment of the child in art, with some thirty reproductions of famous paintings and works of sculpture. The volume sketches the history of the use of the child in art and shows that the development of Christianity first brought childhood into prominence.
“The present volume is summary and superficial: the writer has an unfortunate instinct for the obvious and the trite.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 628. My. 18, ’07. 160w. |
“Even if there are omissions, there is also plenty of interest in the book.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 140w. |
Carpenter, Rolla Clinton. Experimental engineering and manual for testing; for engineers and for students in engineering laboratories. 6th rev. and enl. ed. $6. Wiley.
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“The present book is the sixth edition, and is the result of many revisions and additions by which, as the author states, with the aid of colleagues and assistants, he has brought the subject down to present-day requirements.”—Engin. N.