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Barton, George Aaron. Year’s wandering in Bible lands. [*]$2. Ferris.
This volume is made up of home letters written by the director of the American school of Oriental research, and it contains no dry archaeological detail, but is an account of the experiences of the author and his party, and a description of the localities visited, including Athens, Corinth, the churches of Asia, the Holy land, Alexandria, Italy, and the Alps. There are 145 illustrations in half-tone, from views taken during the trip.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
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| N. Y. Times. 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 350w. (Survey of contents). |
“Its fine and numerous illustrations give it special value as a pictorial companion book to the Bible.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 40w. |
Barton, Samuel Marx. Elements of plane surveying. [*]$1.50. Heath.
To form a connecting link between the mathematical branches as taught in the secondary schools and the practical work of surveying is the author’s chief purpose in presenting this text. It is subdivided into the following chapters: (1) Instruments, their adjustments and uses; (2) Chain surveying; (3) Compass surveying; (4) Computation of areas; (5) Transit surveying; (6) Leveling; and (7) Tables. The last 111 pages are devoted to several useful and practical tables: a table of squares, cubes, square roots, and cube roots; of chords; stadia tables; six-place logarithms of numbers and of trigonometric functions; the natural functions to five places; and an auxiliary table for small angles. The author enters a plea against the insertion of six-place tables in texts on plane surveying as wasteful of time and labor.
“He has quite well met the needs of one class. The class whose interests seem to have been consulted, in the main, is that of the strong high-school, or early college, student of mathematics who feels he would like to know for what all these years of barren formalism are supposed to prepare one, at any rate. From a mathematical student’s point of view the book is a clear, simple, and educative treatment of the fundamental problems of surveying.” G. W. Myers.