Scott, William Fry. Structural designers’ handbook; giving diagrams and tables for the design of beams, girders, and columns, with calculations based on the New York city building code. $2. Eng. news.
“The purpose of this book, as set forth in the preface, is to shorten and possibly eliminate ‘much of the computation and drudgery which are necessary accompaniments of structural designing.’ ... The work provides, in a large measure, the essentials for the design of structures when not complicated by truss work or other unusual features. The time-saving is to be accomplished by the use of diagrams, which take up about one-third of the volume.” —Engin. N.
“The diagrams are well drawn, and considering the amount of information in some of them, are exceedingly clear. So far, too, as it has been possible to check them they have been found accurate and correct.” R. P. Miller.
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 1250w. |
Scruggs, William Lindsay. The Colombian and Venezuelan republics. $1.75. Little.
The new edition of Mr. Scruggs’ work contains in addition to former editions a chapter on the Panama canal, and the text of the latest canal treaty. “The author continues his history of the ‘Panama canal projects’ beginning with the failure of the De Lesseps Panama canal company and the organization of a new company to take over the franchise of the old one, pay its debts, and complete the canal on the new plan. He writes of the negotiations of the United States with Colombia in 1903, the rejection by the Colombian senate of the Hay-Herran treaty, and the final rejection of that treaty.” (N. Y. Times). Mr. Scruggs, by virtue of his twenty-seven years of residence in Colombia and Venezuela, is able to give first hand facts, and the results of his own observation.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 593. My. ‘05. 100w. |
“In his Panama chapter there is nothing of any critical value. He writes generally with fairness, but superficially.”
| + | Nation. 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 290w. (Statement of scope). |
“It is to be regretted that in a book of this kind, an authority in its field, and so well-printed in every other respect, there should be, as the result of careless proof-reading or writing, so many errors of the exact sort to mar its particular excellence.” Stanhope Sams.