Mathot, R. E. [Gas engines and producer gas plants.] tr. from the French by Waldemar B. Kaempffert. $2.50. Henley.
A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.
“The original is very clearly written and the translator has succeeded in preserving this clearness.” Storm Bull.
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 527. My. 10, ‘05. 280w. |
Matthews, (James) Brander, ed. American familiar verse. See Wampum library of American literature. v. 3.
Matthews, (James) Brander. Recreations of an anthologist. [**]$1. Dodd.
Eleven brief papers, by-products of the author’s work upon his four anthologies. There are essays upon “Unwritten books.” “Seed corn for stories,” “American epigrams,” “Carols of cookery,” “Recipes in rhyme,” “The uncollected poems of H. C. Bunner,” and “The strangest feat in modern magic.”
| + | Critic. 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w. |
“A volume of pleasant literary essays.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 54. Ja. 16, ‘05. 70w. |