Houston, Edwin James. Electricity in every-day life. 3v. $4.50. Collier.
“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.” (Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories, and in the home.
“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style, the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”
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“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no specialty of electrical subjects.”
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“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work is voluminous, but never wearisome.”
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Howard, George Elliott. [History of matrimonial institutions chiefly in England and the United States.] [*]$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R. of Rs.