Alexander, Lucia. Libro d’oro of those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life; tr. from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander. [*]$2. Little.
A collection of a hundred and twenty-four miracle stories and sacred legends written by fathers of the church and published in Italy during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The four divisions are: I. Selections from the lives of the holy fathers together with the spiritual field; II. Selections from the lives of the saints and Beati of Tuscany; III. Selections from the wonders of God in His saints, Bologna, 1593; IV. Flowers of sanctity, Venice, 1726.
Alexander, Thomas, and Thomson, A. W. Graphic statics; a graduated series of problems and practical examples, with numerous diagrams, all drawn to scale. [*]50c. Macmillan.
“The authors first give a set of sixteen graduated problems on coplanar forces, solved by means of force and link polygons.... Then follows a set of seventeen examples showing application to roof trusses, girders, wall, and masonry arches.... The book is intended more particularly as an introduction to the author’s Elementary applied mechanics.”—Nature.
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“The treatment is somewhat fragmentary and arbitrary, but, if supplemented by the teacher, the course would prepare a student for a systematic study of graphic statics.”
| + | Nature. 71: 507. Mr. 30, ‘05. 100w. |
Alexander, William. Life insurance company. [**]$1.50. Appleton.
A book adapted “to the needs of the average business or professional man.... It is a simple, straightforward exposition of the principles on which all sound insurance is conducted, including a fair and impartial statement of those facts in the history and present management of the great American companies which every prospective policy-holder should know.”—R. of Rs.
“The book is certainly informing. It is not altogether solemn either. It has its humors, both intentional and unintentional.”