“The author gives a short description of the manufacture of the chief explosives, but its great value will be found in the sections devoted to special risks with each class, the methods of storing and packing, and a particularly useful chapter on the general construction and management of a store, the destruction of explosives, etc. It is certain that a careful study of the book by local inspectors will lead to a better understanding of the whole question of explosives.... For those traders and users who have the handling of these goods after they have left the manufactory the book should be equally valuable.”—Nature.
| + + | Acad. 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
“Is what such a handbook should be.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 369. S. 16. 250w. |
“This little book should prove to be of great value to those for whose benefit it has been mainly written.” J. S. S. B.
| + + | Nature. 72: 507. S. 21, ‘05. 220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 638. S. 30, ‘05. 220w. |
Khan,—(Hadji), and Sparroy, Wilfrid. With the pilgrims to Mecca, [*]$3.50. Lane.
An account of Mr. Khan’s journey to Mecca in 1902 as a special correspondent of the Morning Post. The author is a Mohammedan and speaks Arabic fluently. He tells of the various rites and ceremonies which must be performed by the pilgrims, and of their strange religious feasts and festivals. There are also chapters upon bazaars and social life in the holy city, the whole being enlivened by the original humor of the author’s guide. There is a closing chapter upon the slave market by Mr. Sparroy.
“A book which gives perhaps the most vivid and picturesque account of the great pilgrimage which has ever been written in English, compared with which the well known narratives of Burckhardt and Burton are dry, jejune and colourless. For vigour of style and picturesque treatment of Hadji Khan may be compared with the famous traveller, Palgrave, with the latter’s tendency to embroider the narrative at the expense of accuracy.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 329. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1240w. |