Oils; Cause of the Drying Property; Absorption of Oxygen: Behaviour
towards Metallic Oxides, etc.--II., The Properties of and Methods for
obtaining the Drying Oils.--III., Production of the Drying Oils by
Expression and Extraction: Refining and Bleaching; Oil Cakes and Meal:
The Refining and Bleaching of the Drying Oils; The Bleaching of Linseed
Oil.--IV., The Manufacture or Boiled Oil; The Preparation of Drying Oils
for Use in the Grinding of Paints and Artists' Colours and in the
Manufacture of Varnishes by Heating over a Fire or by Steam, by the Cold
Process, by the Action of Air, and by Means of the Electric Current; The
Driers used in Boiling Linseed Oil; The Manufacture of Boiled Oil and
the Apparatus therefor; Livache's Process for Preparing a Good Drying
Oil and its Practical Application.--V., The Preparation of Varnishes for
Letterpress, Lithographic and Copperplate Printing, for Oilcloth and
Waterproof Fabrics: The Manufacture of Thickened Linseed Oil, Burnt Oil,
Stand Oil by Fire Heat, Superheated Steam, and by a Current of
Air.--VI., Behaviour of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oils towards
Atmospheric Influences, Water, Acids and Alkalies.--VII., Boiled Oil
Substitutes.--VIII., The Manufacture of Solid and Liquid Driers from
Linseed Oil and Rosin; Linolic Acid Compounds of the Driers.--IX., The
Adulteration and Examination of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oil.
* * * * *
REISSUE OF =CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF C.W. SCHEELE.= First Published in English
in 1786. Translated from the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, with
Additions. 300 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s.
6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Memoir; C.W. Scheele and his work (written for this edition).--Chapters
I., On Fluor Mineral and its Acid.--II., On Fluor Mineral.--III.,
Chemical Investigation of Fluor Acid, with a View to the Earth which it
Yields, by Mr. Wiegler.--IV., Additional Information Concerning Fluor
Minerals.--V., On Manganese, Magnesium, or Magnesia Vitrariorum.--VI.,
On Arsenic and its Acid.--VII., Remarks upon Salts of Benzoin--VIII., On
Silex, Clay and Alum.--IX., Analysis of the Calculus Vesical.--X.,
Method of Preparing Mercurius.
Dulcis Via Humida.--XI., Cheaper and more Convenient Method of Preparing
Pulvis Algarothi.--XII., Experiments upon Molybdaena.--XIII.,
Experiments on Plumbago.--XIV., Method of Preparing a New Green
Colour.--XV., Of the Decomposition of Neutral Salts by Unslaked Lime and
Iron.--XVI., On the. Quantity of Pure Air which is Daily Present in our
Atmosphere.--XVII., On Milk and its Acid.--XVIII., On the Acid of
Saccharum Lactis. --XIX., On the Constituent Parts of Lapis Ponderosus
or Tungsten.--XX., Experiments and Observations on Ether.
* * * * *
=GLUE AND GLUE TESTING.= By SAMUEL RIDEAL, D.SC. Lond., F.I.C. Fourteen
Engravings. 144 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., =Constitution and Properties: Definitions and Sources,
Gelatine, Chondrin and Allied Bodies, Physical and Chemical Properties,
Classification, Grades and Commercial Varieties.--II., =Raw Materials
and Manufacture: Glue Stock, Lining, Extraction, Washing and Clarifying,
Filter Presses, Water Supply, Use of Alkalies, Action of Bacteria and of
Antiseptics, Various Processes, Cleansing, Forming, Drying, Crushing,
etc., Secondary Products. --III., =Uses of Glue=: Selection and
Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding,
Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.,
Substitutes for other Materials, Artificial Leather and
Caoutchouc.--IV., =Gelatine=: General Characters, Liquid Gelatine,
Photographic Uses, Size, Tanno-, Chrome and Formo-Gelatine, Artificial
Silk, Cements, Pneumatic Tyres, Culinary, Meat Extracts, Isinglass,
Medicinal and other Uses, Bacteriology.--V., =Glue Testing=: Review of
Processes, Chemical Examination, Adulteration, Physical Tests, Valuation
of Raw Materials.--VI., =Commercial= =Aspects.=
=Press Opinions.=
"This work is of the highest technical character, and gives not
only a full and practical account of the raw materials and
manufacture of glues, gelatines and similar substances, but gives
many hints and information on the use of such substances in
veneering, carpentry and many other purposes. Many tests are given
for glue in different stages of the progress of its manufacture,
and the commercial value of a commodity so much in general use is
exemplified by statistics and figures. It is certainly a valuable
treatise upon an article for which very little literature in any
form has previously been obtainable."--_Carpenter and Builder._
"Books on the art of glue making are more than usually scarce, and
users of that article, as well as those who may be tempted to
embark in the industry, should therefore welcome this book by Dr.
Samuel Rideal, a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, and a
leading authority. In this book he has collected the more important
facts connected with the manufacture of glue and allied products,
and stated the experience he has gained in examining various
commercial samples during the past ten years.... Dr. Rideal's book
must be regarded as a valuable contribution to other technical
literature, which manufacturers, merchants and users may study with
profit."--_British Trade Journal._
"This volume is the latest addition to the excellent series of
special technical works for manufacturers and professional and
commercial men issued by the well-known publishers of _The Oil and
Colourman's Journal_. The volume in every way fully maintains the
high standard of excellence of the whole series, and deals with the
subject of glue making and glue testing in a thoroughly exhaustive
manner. Chapters are given on the constitution and properties, and
raw material and manufacture, and of the uses of glue, and in this
latter respect it will doubtless be information to many readers to
learn to what extent glue enters into the manufacture of many
commercial products not apparently associated with glue. Exhaustive
chapters on the processes and methods of glue testing, and on its
commercial aspects, complete this useful and most carefully
prepared volume."--_Carriage Builders' Journal._
* * * * *
=TECHNOLOGY OF PETROLEUM=: Oil Fields of the World--Their History,
Geography and Geology--Annual Production and Development--Oil-well
Drilling--Transport. By HENRY NEUBERGER and HENRY NOALHAT. Translated
from the French by J. G. MCINTOSH. 550 pp. 153 Illustrations. 26 Plates.
Royal 8vo. 1901. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries,
23s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Part I., =Study of the Petroliferous Strata=--Chapters I.,
Petroleum--Definition.--II., The Genesis or Origin of Petroleum.--III.,
The Oil Fields of Galicia, their History.--IV.. Physical Geography and
Geology of the Galician Oil Fields.--V.. Practical Notes on Galician
Land Law--Economic Hints on Working, etc.--VI., Roumania--History,
Geography, Geology. --VII., Petroleum in Russia--History.--VIII.,
Russian Petroleum (_continued_)--Geography and Geology of the Caucasian
Oil Fields.--IX.. Russian Petroleum (_continued_).--X., The Secondary
Oil Fields of Europe. Northern Germany, Alsace, Italy, etc.--XI.,
Petroleum in France.--XII., Petroleum in Asia--Transcaspian and
Turkestan Territory--Turkestan--Persia--British India and
Burmah--British Burmah or Lower Burmah--China--Chinese Thibet--Japan,
Formosa and Saghalien.--XIII., Petroleum in Oceania--Sumatra. Java,
Borneo--Isle of Timor--Philippine Isles--New Zealand.--XIV., The United
States of America--History. --XV., Physical Geology and Geography of the
United States Oil Fields.--XVI., Canadian and other North American Oil
Fields.--XVII., Economic Data of Work in North America. --XVIII.,
Petroleum in the West Indies and South America.--XIX., Petroleum in the
French Colonies.
Part II., =Excavations.=--Chapter XX., Hand Excavation or Hand Digging
of Oil Wells. Part III., =Methods of Boring.=--Chapters XXI., Methods of
Oil-well Drilling or Boring.--XXII., Boring Oil Wells with the
Rope.--XXIII., Drilling with Rigid Rods and a Free-fall--Fabian
System.--XXIV., Free-fall Drilling by Steam Power.--XXV., Oil-well
Drilling by the Canadian System.--XXVI., Drilling Oil Wells on the
Combined System.--XXVII., Comparison between the Combined Fauck System
and the Canadian.--XXVIII., The American System of Drilling with the
Rope.--XXIX., Hydraulic Boring with the Drill by Hand and Steam
Power.--XXX., Rotary Drilling of Oil Wells, Bits, Steel-crowned Tools,
Diamond Tools--Hand Power and Steam Power--Hydraulic
Sand-pumping.--XXXI., Improvements in and different Systems of Drilling
Oil Wells.
Part IV., =Accidents.=--Chapters XXXII., Boring Accidents--Methods of
preventing them--Methods of remedying them.--XXXIII., Explosives and the
use of the "Torpedo" Levigation.--XXXIV., Storing and Transport of
Petroleum.--XXXV., General Advice--Prospecting, Management and carrying
on of Petroleum Boring Operations.
Part V., =General Data.=--=Customary Formulæ.=--Memento. Practical
Part. General Data bearing on Petroleum.--Glossary or Technical Terms
used in the Petroleum Industry.--Copious Index.
* * * * *
=A DICTIONARY OF CHEMICALS AND RAW PRODUCTS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PAINTS, COLOURS, VARNISHES AND ALLIED PREPARATIONS.= By GEORGE H. HURST,
F.C.S. Demy 8vo. 380 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
The names of the Chemicals and Raw Products are arranged in alphabetical
order, and the description of each varies in length from half to eight
pages. The following are some of the articles described and explained:
Acetates--Acetic Acid--Acidimetry--Alcohol--Alum--Ammonia--Amber--Animi--
Arsenic--Beeswax--Benzol--Bichromates of Potash and Soda--Bleaching
Powder--Bone Black--Boric Acid--Brunswick Green--Cadmium
Yellow--Carbonates--Carmine--Carnauba Wax--Caustic Potash and
Soda--Chrome Colours--Clay--Coal Tar Colours--Copal--Dammar--Drying
Oils--Emerald Green--Gamboge--Glue--Glycerine--Gums--Gypsum--Indian
Red--Japanese Lacquer--Lac--Lakes--Lamp Black--Lead Compounds--Linseed
Oil--Magnesia--Manganese Compounds--Mica--Nitric Acid--Ochres--Orange
Lead--Orr's White--Paraffin--Prussian Blue--Rosin
Oil--Sepia--Sienna--Smalts--Sodium Carbonate--Sublimed White
Lead--Sulphuric Acid--Terra Verte--Testing
Pigments--Turpentine--Ultramarine--Umbers--Vermilionettes--White
Lead--Whiting--Zinc Compounds.--Appendix: Comparison of Baume Hydrometer
and Specific Gravity for Liquids Lighter than Water--Hydrometer Table
for Liquids Heavier than Water--Comparison of Temperature
Degrees--Tables for Converting French Metric Weights and Measures into
English--Table of the Elements--etc., etc.--Copious Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"This treatise will be welcomed by those interested in this
industry who have not secured the full advantage of a course of
scientific training."--_Chemical Trade Journal._
"In concise and lucid terms almost every ingredient used in paint
and colour manufacture is described, together with the methods of
testing their intrinsic and chemical value."--_Pontefract Express._
"Such a book of reference for paint, colour and varnish
manufacturers has long been needed, and in Mr. Hurst the publishers
have secured a compiler who is not only a well-known authority and
expert, but who has the gift of communicating his knowledge in a
concise and lucid form."--_Manchester Courier._
* * * * *
=PURE AIR, OZONE AND WATER.= A Practical Treatise of their Utilisation
and Value in Oil, Grease, Soap, Paint, Glue and other Industries. By W.
B. COWELL. Twelve Illustrations. 1900. Price 5s.; India and Colonies,
5s. 6d.: Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Atmospheric Air; Lifting of Liquids: Suction Process;
Preparing Blown Oils; Preparing Siccative Drying Oils.--II., Compressed
Air; Whitewash.--III., Liquid Air; Retrocession.--IV., Purification of
Water; Water Hardness.--V., Fleshings and Bones.--VI., Ozonised Air in
the Bleaching and Deodorising of Fats, Glues, etc.: Bleaching Textile
Fibres.--Appendix: Air and Gases: Pressure of Air at Various
Temperatures; Fuel; Table of Combustibles; Saving of Fuel by Heating
Feed Water; Table of Solubilities of Scale Making Minerals: British
Thermal Units Tables; Volume of the Flow of Steam into the Atmosphere;
Temperature of Steam.--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"This is a valuable work in little space.... In arrangement it is a
commendable work, and its value is increased by the index which
brings the little volume to a close."--_Newcastle Daily Journal._
"The book is written solely for manufacturers, who, without doubt,
will find it exceedingly practical and useful. The volume contains
an appendix wherein is given a great many tables, etc., which
manufacturers in the trades referred to will find of inestimable
value "_Blackburn Times._
=THE MANUFACTURE OF MINERAL AND LAKE PIGMENTS.= Containing Directions
for the Manufacture of all Artificial, Artists and Painters' Colours,
Enamel, Soot and Metallic Pigments. A Text-book for Manufacturers,
Merchants, Artists and Painters. By Dr. JOSEF BERSCH. Translated from
the Second Revised Edition by ARTHUR C. WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc.
(Lond.), formerly Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator in Chemistry at
the Yorkshire College, Leeds. Forty-three Illustrations. 476 pp., demy
8vo. 1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies. 13s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Introduction.--II., Physico-chemical Behaviour of
Pigments.--III., Raw Materials Employed in the Manufacture of
Pigments.--IV., Assistant Materials.--V., Metallic Compounds.--VI., The
Manufacture of Mineral Pigments.--VII., The Manufacture of White
Lead.--VIII., Enamel White.--IX., Washing Apparatus.--X., Zinc
White.--XI.. Yellow Mineral Pigments.--XII., Chrome Yellow.--XIII., Lead
Oxide Pigments.--XIV., Other Yellow Pigments.--XV., Mosaic; Gold.--XVI.,
Red Mineral Pigments.--XVII., The Manufacture of Vermilion.--XVIII.,
Antimony Vermilion.--XIX., Ferric Oxide Pigments.--XX., Other Red
Mineral Pigments.--XXI., Purple of Cassius.--XXII., Blue Mineral
Pigments. --XXIII., Ultramarine.--XXIV., Manufacture of
Ultramarine.--XXV., Blue Copper Pigments. --XXVI., Blue Cobalt
Pigments.--XXVII., Smalts.--XXVIII., Green Mineral Pigments.--XXIX.,
Emerald Green.--XXX., Verdigris.--XXXI., Chromium Oxide.--XXXII., Other
Green Chromium Pigments.--XXXIII., Green Cobalt Pigments.--XXXIV., Green
Manganese Pigments.--XXXV., Compounded Green Pigments.--XXXVI., Violet
Mineral Pigments.--XXXVII.. Brown Mineral Pigments.--XXXVIII., Brown
Decomposition Products.--XXXIX., Black Pigments.--XL., Manufacture of
Soot Pigments.--XLI., Manufacture of Lamp Black.--XLII., The Manufacture
of Soot Black without Chambers.--XLIII., Indian Ink.--XLIV., Enamel
Colours.--XLV., Metallic Pigments.--XLVI., Bronze Pigments--XLVII.,
Vegetable Bronze Pigments.
PIGMENTS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN.--Chapters XLVIII., Lakes.--XLIX., Yellow
Lakes.--L., Red Lakes.--LI., Manufacture of Carmine.--LII., The
Colouring Matter of Lac.--LIII., Safflower or Carthamine Red.--LIV.,
Madder and its Colouring Matters.--LV., Madder Lakes.--LVI., Manjit
(Indian Madder).--LVII., Lichen Colouring Matters.--LVIII., Red Wood
Lakes. --LIX., The Colouring Matters of Sandal Wood and Other Dye
Woods.--LX., Blue Lakes.--LXI., Indigo Carmine.--LXII., The Colouring
Matter of Log Wood.--LXIII., Green Lakes.--LXIV., Brown Organic
Pigments.--LXV., Sap Colours.--LXVI., Water Colours.--LXVII.,
Crayons.--LXVIII., Confectionery Colours.--LXIX., The Preparation of
Pigments for Painting.--LXX., The Examination of Pigments.--LXXI.,
Examination of Lakes.--LXXII., The Testing of Dye-Woods.--LXXIII., The
Design of a Colour Works.--LXXIV.--Commercial Names of
Pigments.--Appendix: Conversion of Metric to English Weights and
Measures.--Centigrade and Fahrenheit Thermometer Scales.--Index.
* * * * *
=BONE PRODUCTS AND MANURES=: An Account of the most recent Improvements
in the Manufacture of Fat, Glue, Animal Charcoal, Size, Gelatine and
Manures. By THOMAS LAMBERT, Technical and Consulting Chemist.
Illustrated by Twenty-one Plans and Diagrams. 162 pp., demy 8vo. 1901.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Chemical Composition of Bones--Arrangement of
Factory--Crushing of Bones --Treatment with Benzene--Benzene in Crude
Fat--Analyses of Clarified Fats--Mechanical Cleansing of Bones--Animal
Charcoal--Tar and Ammoniacal Liquor, Char and Gases, from good quality
Bones--Method of Retorting the Bones--Analyses of Chars--"Spent"
Chars--Cooling of Tar and Ammoniacal Vapours--Value of Nitrogen for
Cyanide of Potash--Bone Oil--Marrow Bones--Composition of Marrow
Fat--Premier Juice--Buttons.--II., Properties of Glue--Glutin and
Chondrin--Skin Glue--Liming of Skins--Washing--Boiling of
Skins--Clarification of Glue Liquors--Acid Steeping of Bones--Water
System of Boiling Bones--Steam Method of Treating Bones--Nitrogen in the
Treated Bones--Glue-Boiling and Clarifying-House--Plan showing
Arrangement of Clarifying Vats--Plan showing Position of
Evaporators--Description of Evaporators--Sulphurous Acid
Generator--Clarification of Liquors--Section of
Drying-House--Specification of a Glue--Size--Uses and Preparation and
Composition of Size--Concentrated Size.--III., Properties of
Gelatine--Preparation of Skin Gelatine
--Washing--Bleaching--Boiling--Clarification--Evaporation--Drying--Bone
Gelatine--Selecting
Bones--Crushing--Dissolving--Bleaching--Boiling--Properties of Glutin
and Chondrin --Testing of Glues and Gelatines.--IV., The Uses of Glue,
Gelatine and Size in Various Trades--Soluble and Liquid Glues--Steam and
Waterproof Glues.--V., Manures--Importation of Food
Stuffs--Soils--Germination--Plant Life.--VI., Natural Manures--Water and
Nitrogen in Farmyard Manure--Full Analysis of Farmyard Manure--Action on
Crops--Water-Closet.
System--Sewage Manure--Green Manures.--VII., Artificial
Manures--Bones--Boiled and Steamed Bones--Mineral Phosphates--English
Coprolites--French and Spanish Phosphorites--German and Belgian
Phosphates--Basic Slag--Guanos Proper--Guano Phosphates.--VIII., Mineral
Manures--Common Salt--Potash Salts--Calcareous Manures--Prepared
Nitrogenous Manures--Ammoniacal Compounds--Sodium Nitrate--Potassium
Nitrate--Organic Nitrogenous Matters--Shoddy--Hoofs and Horns--Leather
Waste--Dried Meat--Dried
Blood--Superphosphates--Composition--Manufacture--Section of
Manure-Shed--First and Ground Floor Plans of Manure-Shed--Quality of
Acid Used--Mixings--Special Manures--Potato Manure--Dissolved
Bones--Dissolved Bone Compound--Enriched Peruvian Guano--Special Manure
for Garden Stuffs, etc.--Special Manure for Grass Lands--Special Tobacco
Manures--Sugar-Cane Manure--Compounding of Manures--Valuation of
Manures.--IX., Analyses of Raw and Finished Products--Common Raw
Bones--Degreased Bones--Crude Fat--Refined Fat--Degelatinised
Bones--Animal Charcoal--Bone Superphosphates--Guanos--Dried Animal
Products--Potash Compounds--Sulphate of Ammonia--Extraction in
Vacuo--Description of a Vacuum Pan--French and British Gelatines
compared.--Index.
=Press Opinion.=
"We can with confidence recommend the perusal of the book to all
persons interested in the manufacture of artificial manures, and
also to the large number of farmers and others who are desirous of
working their holdings on the most up-to-date methods, and
obtaining the best possible results, which scientific research has
placed within their reach."--_Wigan Observer._
* * * * *
=ANALYSIS OF RESINS AND BALSAMS.= Demy 8vo. 340 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Part I., Definition of Resins in General--Definition of Balsams, and
especially the Gum Resins--External and Superficial Characteristics of
Resinous Bodies--Distinction between Resinous Bodies and Fats and
Oils--Origin, Occurrence and Collection of Resinous
Substances--Classification--Chemical Constituents of Resinous
Substances--Resinols--Resinot Annols--Behaviour of Resin Constituents
towards the Cholesterine Reactions--Uses and Identification of
Resins--Melting-point--Solvents--Acid Value--Saponification Value--Resin
Value--Ester and Ether Values--Acetyl and Corbonyl Value--Methyl
Value--Resin Acid--Systematic Résumé of the Performance of the Acid and
Saponification Value Tests.
Part II., Balsams--Introduction--Definitions--Canada Balsam--Copaiba
Balsam--Angostura Copaiba Balsam--Bahia Copaiba Balsam--Carthagena
Copaiba Balsam--Maracaibo Copaiba Balsam--Maturin Copaiba Balsam--Gurjum
Copaiba Balsam--Para Copaiba Balsam--Surinam Copaiba Balsam--West
African Copaiba Balsam--Mecca Balsam--Peruvian Balsam--Tolu
Balsam--Acaroid Resin--Amine--Amber--African and West Indian
Kino--Bengal Kino--Labdanum--Mastic--Pine
Resin--Sandarach--Scammonium--Shellac--Storax--Adulteration of Styrax
Liquidus Crudus--Purified Storax--Styrax Crudus
Colatus--Tacamahac--Thapsia Resin--Turpentine--Chios
Turpentine--Strassburg Turpentine--Turpeth Turpentine. =Gum
Resins=--Ammoniacum--Bdellium--Euphorbium--Galbanum--Gamboge--Lactucarium--
Myrrh--Opopanax--Sagapenum--Olibanum or Incense--Acaroid Resin--Amber--
Thapsia Resin.--Index.
* * * * *
=MANUFACTURE OF PAINT.= A Practical Handbook for Paint Manufacturers,
Merchants and Painters. By J. CRUICKSHANK SMITH, B.Sc. Demy 8vo. 1901.
200 pp. 60 Illustrations and 1 Large Diagram. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Part I., Chapters I., Preparation of Raw Material.--II., Storing of Raw
Material.--III., Testing and Valuation of Raw Material--Paint Plant and
Machinery.
Part II., Chapter V., The Grinding of White Lead.--VI., Grinding of
White Zinc.--VII., Grinding of other White Pigments.--VIII., Grinding of
Oxide Paints.--IX., Grinding of Staining Colours.--X., Grinding of Black
Paints.--XI., Grinding of Chemical Colours--Yellows.--XII., Grinding of
Chemical Colours--Blues.--XIII., Grinding Greens.--XIV., Grinding
Reds.--XV., Grinding Lakes.--XVI., Grinding Colours in Water.--XVII.,
Grinding Colours in Turpentine.
Part III., Chapters XVIII., The Uses of Paint.--XIX., Testing and
Matching Paints.--XX., Economic Considerations.--Index.
* * * * *
=THE CHEMISTRY OF PIGMENTS.= By ERNEST J. PARRY, B.Sc, F.I.C., F.C.S.,
and J.H. COSTE, F.I.C., F.C.S. [_In the press._
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Introductory--Composition of White Light--Theory of Colour,
etc.--II., The Application of Pigments--Artistic, Decorative, Protective
Methods of Applying Pigments.--III., White Pigments.--IV., Inorganic
Coloured Pigments.--V., Organic Pigments.
=NOTES ON LEAD ORES=: Their Distribution and Properties. By JAS. FAIRIE,
F.G.S. Crown 8vo. 1901. 64 pages. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly
net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Definitions--Properties--Occurrence.--II.,
Galena--Johnstonite--Cerussite--Céruse (White Lead)--Minium--Red Lead.--
III., Pyromorphite--Mimetene--Hediphane--Crocoise--Wulfenite.--Vanadinite--
IV., Bleiglatte--Anglesite--Caledonite--Linarite--Lanarkite--Leadhillite
--Susannite--Clausthalite--Cotunnite.--V., Mendipite--Matlockite--
Cromfordite--Nagyagite--Altaite--Melanochroite--Vauguelinite--
Scheeletine.--VI., Plattnerite--Tilkerodite--Raphanosmite--
Deckenite--Descloezite--Dufrenaysite--Bleinierite--Moffrasite
--Geocronite--Kilbrechenite--Schulzite--Boulangerite--Heteromorphite--
Meneghinite--Jamesonite--Plagionite--Zinkenite.--VII., Kobellite--
Bournonite--Selenkupferblei--Nussierite--Percylite--Wolchite--
Polysphracrite--Miesite.--Index.
* * * * *
=THE RISKS AND DANGERS OF VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS AND THEIR PREVENTION.= By
LEONARD A. PARRY, M.D., B.S. (Lond.). 196 pp., demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Occupations which are Accompanied by the Generation and
Scattering of Abnormal Quantities of Dust.--II., Trades in which there
is Danger of Metallic Poisoning.--III., Certain Chemical Trades.--IV.,
Some Miscellaneous Occupations.--V., Trades in which Various Poisonous
Vapours are Inhaled.--VI., General Hygienic Considerations.--Index.
This book contains valuable information for the following
trades--Aerated Water Manufacture, Alkali Manufacture, Aniline
Manufacture, Barometer Making, Brass Founders, Bromine Manufacture,
Bronze Moulders, Brush Making, Builders, Cabinet Makers, Calico
Printing, Chloride of Lime Manufacture, Coal Miners, Cocoa-nut Fibre
Making, Colour Grinders, Copper Miners, Cotton Goods Manufacture, Cotton
Yarn Dyeing, Cutlery Trades, Dry Cleaning, Electricity Generating,
Electroplaters, Explosives Manufacture, File Making, Flint Milling,
Floor Cloth Makers, Furriers, Fustian Clothing Making, Galvanised Iron
Manufacture, Gassing Process, Gilders, Glass Making, Glass Paper Making,
Glass Polishing and Cutting, Grinding Processes, Gunpowder
Manufacturing, Gutta-percha Manufacture, Hat Makers, Hemp Manufacture,
Horn Goods Making, Horse-hair Making, Hydrochloric Acid Manufacture,
India-rubber Manufacture, Iodine Manufacture, Ivory Goods Making,
Jewellers, Jute Manufacture, Knife Grinders, Knife Handle Makers, Lace
Makers, Lacquering, Lead Melters, Lead Miners, Leather Making, Linen
Manufacture Linoleum Making, Lithographic Printing and Bronzing,
Lithographing, Masons, Match Manufacture, Melanite Making, Mirror
Making, Needle Grinders, Needle Making, Nitro-benzole Making,
Nitro-glycerine Making, Paint Makers, Paper Making, Philosophical
Instrument Makers, Photographers, Pieric Acid Making, Portland Cement
Making, Pottery Manufacture, Printers, Quicksilver Mining, Rag Pickers,
Razor Grinders, Red Lead Making, Rope Making, Sand Paper Making, Saw
Grinders, Scissors Grinders, Shoddy Manufacture, Shot Making, Silk
Making, Silver Mining, Skinners, Slag, Wood Manufacture, Steel Makers,
Steel Pen Making, Stereotypers, Stone Masons, Straw Hat Makers,
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, Sweeps, Table-knife Grinders, Tanners,
Telegraphists, Textile Industries, Tin Miners, Turners, Type Founders,
Umbrella Makers, Wall Paper Making, White Lead Making, Wood Working,
Woollen Manufacture, Wool Sorters, Zinc Oxide Manufacture. Zinc Working,
etc., etc.
=Press Opinions.=
"The language used is quite simple, and can be understood by any
intelligent person engaged in the trades dealt with."--_The
Clarion._
"This is an appalling book. It shows that there is scarcely a trade
or occupation that has not a risk or a danger attached to
it."--_Local Government Journal._
"Dr. Parry has not only pointed out the 'risks and dangers of
various occupations': he has suggested means for their prevention.
The work is primarily a practical one."--_Colliery Manager._
"This is a most useful book which should be in the hands of all
employers of labour, foremen, and intelligent workmen, and is one
of great utility to sanitary inspectors, and even on occasion to
medical men."--_Health._
"The writer has succeeded in collecting a large amount of
information, and though one could wish he had presented it in a
rather more attractive style, he has certainly condensed it into a
very small space."--_Physician and Surgeon._
"The little book before us is one which will be found exceedingly
useful to manufacturers and even factory inspectors.... No attempt
is made to show how diseases when originated are to be cured, but,
acting on the sound principle that prevention is better than cure,
means are stated how to avoid the harm."--_Bristol Mercury._
"The author has endeavoured to treat the question in simple rather
than in technical language, and he has lucidly catalogued the most
dangerous trades and their symptoms, and in each case specified the
best methods of dealing with them.... To those for whom the volume
is specially designed, Dr. Parry's treatise should be a useful
handbook."--_Sheffield Independent._
"A very useful manual for employers of labour, foremen, intelligent
workmen, and, in spite of the author's modesty, for medical men. We
have the peculiar risks and dangers of all the dangerous trades
carefully described; the mode of action of various chemicals, etc.,
used in different industries given, with full directions how to
minimise unavoidable risks."--_Leeds Mercury._
"Most of the trades in the country are alluded to, and upon those
that are dangerous the necessary attention is bestowed, and means
are recommended whereby danger may be prevented or lessened. The
author has evidently studied his subject with care, and has made
full use of the experience of others who have had a larger insight
into the industries of the country."--_British Medical Journal._
"The work is well written and printed, and its verbiage such as to
be comprehensible to the workman no less than to the master. The
careful and general perusal of a work of this nature cannot but be
attended by beneficial results of a far-reaching nature, and we
therefore heartily recommend the book to our readers. Medical
Officers of Health and Sanitary Inspectors especially should find
the work of great interest."--_Sanitary Record._
"It is written in simple language, and its instructions can be
easily followed.... There are some employers, at any rate, who are
more ignorant of, than indifferent to, the slow murder of their
workpeople, and if the facts so succinctly set forth in this book
were brought to their notice, and if the Trade Unions made it their
business to insist on the observance of the better conditions Dr.
Parry described, much might be done to lessen the workman's
peril."--_Weekly Times and Echo._
* * * * *
=PRACTICAL X RAY WORK.= By FRANK T. ADDYMAN,
B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., Member of the Roentgen Society of London;
Radiographer to St. George's Hospital; Demonstrator of Physics and
Chemistry, and Teacher of Radiography in St. George's Hospital Medical
School. Demy 8vo. 12 Plates from Photographs of X Ray Work. 52
Illustrations. 200 pp. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.;
Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Part I., =Historical=--Chapters I., Introduction.--II., Work leading up
to the Discovery of the X Rays.--III., The Discovery.
Part II., =Apparatus and its Management=--Chapters I., Electrical
Terms.--II., Sources of Electricity.--III., Induction Coils.--IV.,
Electrostatic Machines.--V., Tubes.--VI., Air Pumps.--VII., Tube Holders
and Stereoscopic Apparatus.--VIII., Fluorescent Screens.
Part III., =Practical X Ray Work=--Chapters I., Installations.--II.,
Radioscopy.--III., Radiography.--IV., X Rays in Dentistry.--V., X Rays
in Chemistry.--VI., X Rays in War.--Index.
=List of Plates.=
_Frontispiece_--Congenital Dislocation of Hip-Joint.--I., Needle in
Finger.--II., Needle in Foot.--III., Revolver Bullet in Calf and
Leg.--IV., A Method of Localisation.--V., Stellate Fracture of Patella
showing shadow of "Strapping".--VI., Sarcoma.--VII., Six-weeks'-old
Injury to Elbow showing new Growth of Bone.--VIII., Old Fracture of
Tibia and Fibula badly set.--IX., Heart Shadow.--X., Fractured Femur
showing Grain of Splint.--XI., Barrell's Method of Localisation.
* * * * *
=DRYING BY MEANS OF AIR AND STEAM.= Explanations, Formulæ, and Tables
for Use in Practice. Translated from the German of E. HAUSBRAND. Two
Diagrams and Thirteen Tables. Demy 8vo. 1901. 72 pp. Price 5s.; India
and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Preface.--British and Metric Systems Compared--Centigrade and Fahr.
Thermometers.--Chapters I, Introduction.--II., Estimation of the Maximum
Weight of Saturated Aqueous Vapour which can be contained in 1 kilo. of
Air at Different Pressure and Temperatures.--III., Calculation of the
Necessary Weight and Volume of Air, and of the Least Expenditure of
Heat, per Drying Apparatus with Heated Air, at the Atmospheric Pressure:
_A_, With the Assumption that the Air is _Completely Saturated_ with
Vapour both before Entry and after Exit from the Apparatus.--_B_, When
the Atmospheric Air is Completely Saturated _before entry_, but at its
_exit_ is _only_ 3/4, 1/2 or 1/4 Saturated.--_C_, When the Atmospheric
Air is _not_ Saturated with Moisture before Entering the Drying
Apparatus.--IV., Drying Apparatus, in which, in the Drying Chamber, a
Pressure is Artificially Created, Higher or Lower than that of the
Atmosphere.--V., Drying by Means of Superheated Steam, without
Air.--VI., Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air Current, Dimensions of
the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying Material, Losses of Heat.--Index.
* * * * *
=Leather Trades.=
* * * * *
=THE LEATHER WORKER'S MANUAL.= Being a Compendium of Practical Recipes
and Working Formulæ for Curriers, Bootmakers, Leather Dressers, Blacking
Manufacturers, Saddlers, Fancy Leather Workers, and all Persons engaged
in the Manipulation of Leather. By H.C. STANDAGE. 165 pp. 1900. Price
7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly
net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Blackings, Polishes, Glosses, Dressings, Renovators, etc.,
for Boot and Shoe Leather.--II., Harness Blackings, Dressings, Greases,
Compositions, Soaps, and Boot-top Powders and Liquids, etc., etc.--III.,
Leather Grinders' Sundries.--IV., Currier's Seasonings, Blacking
Compounds, Dressings, Finishes, Glosses, etc.--V., Dyes and Stains for
Leather.--VI., Miscellaneous Information.--VII., Chrome Tannage.--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"The book being absolutely unique, is likely to be of exceptional
value to all whom it concerns, as it meets a long-felt
want."--_Birmingham Gazette._
"This is a valuable collection of practical receipts and working
formulæ for the use of those engaged in the manipulation of
leather. We have no hesitation in recommending it as one of the
best books of its kind, an opinion which will be endorsed by those
to whom it appeals."--_Liverpool Mercury._
"We think we may venture to state, so far as the opinion of the
leather trade under the Southern Cross is concerned, that it will
be one of approval. As practical men, having a long and wide
experience of the leather trade in Australia, we are certain that
there are many tanners and curriers carrying on business in remote
townships of the colonies to whom such a manual of practical
recipes will be invaluable.... This manual is not a mere collection
of recipes for the various purposes to which they may be applied,
but it is also replete with instructions concerning the nature of
the materials recommended to be used in making up the recipes....
We think every intelligent leather man should avail himself of the
manual. It is undoubtedly a valuable contribution to the technology
of the leather trade."--_Australian Leather Journal and Boot and
Shoe Recorder._
* * * * *
=PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LEATHER INDUSTRY.= By A.M. VILLON. A
Translation of Villon's "Traité Pratique de la Fabrication des cuirs et
du Travail des Peaux". By FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.SC. (Lond.), F.I.C.,
F.C.S.; and Corrected by an Eminent Member of the Trade. 500 pp., royal
8vo. 1901. 123 Illustrations. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.;
Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Preface--Translator's Preface--List of Illustrations.
Part I., =Materials used in Tanning=--Chapter I., Skins: I., Skin and
its Structure; II., Skins used in Tanning; III., Various Skins and their
Uses--Chapter II., Tannin and Tanning Substances: I., Tannin; II., Barks
(Oak); III., Barks other than Oak; IV., Tanning Woods; V.,
Tannin-bearing Leaves; VI., Excrescences; VII., Tan-bearing Fruits;
VIII., Tan-bearing Roots and Bulbs; IX., Tanning Juices: X., Tanning
Substances used in Various Countries; XI., Tannin Extracts; XII.,
Estimation of Tannin and Tannin Principles.
Part II., =Tanning=--Chapter I., The Installation of a Tannary: I., Tan
Furnaces; II., Chimneys, Boilers, etc.; III., Steam Engines--Chapter
II., Grinding and Trituration of Tanning Substances: I., Cutting up
Bark: II., Grinding Bark; III., The Grinding of Tan Woods; IV.,
Powdering Fruit, Galls and Grains; V., Notes on the Grinding of
Bark--Chapter III., Manufacture of Sole Leather: I., Soaking; II.,
Sweating and Unhairing; III., Plumping and Colouring; IV., Handling; V.,
Tanning; VI., Tanning Elephants' Hides; VII., Drying; VIII., Striking or
Pinning--Chapter IV., Manufacture of Dressing Leather: I., Soaking; II.,
Depilation; III., New Processes for the Depilation of Skins; IV.,
Tanning; V., Cow Hides; VI., Horse Hides; VII., Goat Skins; Manufacture
of Split Hides--Chapter V., On Various Methods of Tanning: I.,
Mechanical Methods; II., Physical Methods; III., Chemical Methods; IV.,
Tanning with Extracts--Chapter VI., Quantity and Quality: I., Quantity;
II., Net Cost; III., Quality of Leather--Chapter VII., Various
Manipulations of Tanned Leather: I., Second Tanning; II., Grease Stains:
III., Bleaching Leather; IV., Waterproofing Leather; V., Weighting
Tanned Leather; VI., Preservation of Leather--Chapter VIII., Tanning
Various Skins.
Part III., =Currying=--Chapter I., Waxed Calf: I., Preparation; II.,
Shaving; III., Stretching or Slicking; IV., Oiling the Grain: V., Oiling
the Flesh Side; VI., Whitening and Graining; VII., Waxing; VIII.,
Finishing; IX., Dry Finishing; X., Finishing in Colour; XI.,
Cost--Chapter II., White Calf: I., Finishing in White--Chapter III., Cow
Hide for Upper Leathers: I., Black Cow Hide; II., White Cow Hide; III.,
Coloured Cow Hide.--Chapter IV., Smooth Cow Hide--Chapter V., Black
Leather--Chapter VI., Miscellaneous Hides: I., Horse; II., Goat; III.,
Waxed Goat Skin: IV., Matt Goat Skin--Chapter VII., Russia Leather: I.,
Russia Leather; II., Artificial Russia Leather.
Part IV., =Enamelled, Hungary and Chamoy Leather, Morocco, Parchment,
Furs and Artificial Leather=--Chapter I., Enamelled Leather: I., Varnish
Manufacture; II., Application of the Enamel; III., Enamelling in
Colour--Chapter II., Hungary Leather: I., Preliminary; II., Wet Work or
Preparation; III., Aluming; IV., Dressing or Loft Work; V., Tallowing;
VI., Hungary Leather from Various Hides--Chapter III., Tawing: I.,
Preparatory Operations; II., Dressing; III., Dyeing Tawed Skins; IV.,
Rugs--Chapter IV., Chamoy Leather--Chapter V., Morocco: I., Preliminary
Operations; II., Morocco Tanning; III., Mordants used in Morocco
Manufacture; IV., Natural Colours used in Morocco Dyeing; V., Artificial
Colours; VI. Different Methods of Dyeing; VII., Dyeing with Natural
Colours; VIII., Dyeing with Aniline Colours; IX., Dyeing with Metallic
Salts; X., Leather Printing; XI., Finishing Morocco; XII., Shagreen;
XIII., Bronzed Leather--Chapter VI., Gilding and Silvering: I., Gilding;
II., Silvering; III., Nickel and Cobalt--Chapter VII.,
Parchment--Chapter VIII., Furs and Furriery: I., Preliminary Remarks;
II., Indigenous Furs; III., Foreign Furs from Hot Countries; IV.,
Foreign Furs from Cold Countries; V., Furs from Birds' Skins; VI.,
Preparation of Furs; VII., Dressing; VIII., Colouring; IX., Preparation
of Birds' Skins; X., Preservation of Furs--Chapter IX., Artificial
Leather: I., Leather made from Scraps; II., Compressed Leather; III.,
American Cloth; IV., Papier Mâché; V., Linoleum: VI., Artificial
Leather.
Part V., =Leather Testing and the Theory of Tanning=--Chapter I.,
Testing and Analysis of Leather: I., Physical Testing of Tanned Leather:
II., Chemical Analysis--Chapter II., The Theory of Tanning and the other
Operations of the Leather and Skin Industry: I., Theory of Soaking; II.,
Theory of Unhairing; III., Theory of Swelling; IV., Theory of Handling;
V., Theory of Tanning; VI., Theory of the Action of Tannin on the Skin;
VII., Theory of Hungary Leather Making; VIII., Theory of Tawing; IX.,
Theory of Chamoy Leather Making; X., Theory of Mineral Tanning.
Part VI., =Uses of Leather=--Chapter I., Machine Belts: I., Manufacture
of Belting; II., Leather Chain Belts; III., Various Belts, IV., Use of
Belts--Chapter II., Boot and Shoe-making: I., Boots and Shoes; II.,
Laces--Chapter III., Saddlery: I., Composition of a Saddle; II.,
Construction of a Saddle--Chapter IV., Harness: I., The Pack Saddle;
II., Harness--Chapter V., Military Equipment--Chapter VI., Glove
Making--Chapter VII., Carriage Building--Chapter VIII., Mechanical Uses.
Appendix, =The World's Commerce in Leather=--I., Europe; II., America;
III., Asia; IV., Africa; Australasia--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"The book is well and lucidly written. The writer is evidently a
practical man, who also has taken the trouble to make himself
acquainted with the scientific and technical side of his trade ...
French methods differ largely from our own: sometimes we think our
ways the best, but not always. The practical man may pick up many
useful hints which may help him to improve his methods." --_Shoe
Manufacturers' Monthly Journal._
"This book cannot fail to be of great value to all engaged in the
leather trades ... The British may believe that the French can teach
them nothing in the work of leather tanning generally, but a
comparison of the methods of the two countries will certainly yield
a few wrinkles which may lead to advantageous results. Only a man
understanding the science and technique of the trade could have
written the book, and it is well done." --_Midland Free Press._
"Gives much useful and interesting information concerning the
various processes by which the skins of animals are converted into
leather. Written by a French Chemist after five years of constant
study and application: it shows all that detail of analysis which we
are accustomed to find in scientists, and which the practical tanner
is too much in the habit of ignoring, sometimes to his own loss."
--_Leeds Mercury._
"Nor can there be much doubt that this expectation will be fully
justified by the result. Thanks to the conspicuous painstaking with
which Mr. Addyman has discharged his duty, and the 123 illustrations
by which the text is elucidated, the volume can hardly fail to prove
a very valuable standard work of its class. It can thus be
confidently recommended to all who are more or less practically
interested in the technology of a very important subject."--_Leicester
Post._
"This is, in every respect, an altogether admirable, practical,
clear and lucid treatise on the various and numerous branches of the
great leather industry, of which it deals in an exhaustive, highly
intelligent, workmanlike and scientific manner ... It is a handsome
addition to every man's knowledge of his trade, whether he be a
leading director of a large public company, or an industrious
employee in the works, wishing to improve his services by the
addition of his brains to his work." --_Shoe and Leather Trader._
"M. Villon writes as one having a very full knowledge of all
branches of the subject, and in days when foreign competition has
enforced on English manufacturers the importance of no longer being
content with rule-of-thumb methods which have come down to them from
their forefathers it certainly should be worth the while of English
tanners to see what lessons they can learn from French practice, and
French practice, we should imagine, could hardly have a better
exponent than the author of this large volume." --_Western Daily
Press and Bristol Times._
"At a time when all or nearly all our British industries are to a
greater or less extent hampered by the pressure of continental and
American competition, any hints that can be obtained as to the
methods pursued by competitors must necessarily be of value ... That
it will be of interest and value, not merely to English tanners, but
to those associated with many kindred industrial branches, goes
without saying ... As a work of reference the volume will be
extremely useful in the trade, and where leisure affords sufficient
opportunity a careful perusal and study of it would afford ample
reward." --_Kettering Guardian._
"This is a very handsomely got up and elaborate work just issued by
this well-known technical book-publishing firm ... When we say that
the work consists of over 500 large pages with about 120
illustrations, and almost innumerable tables, it will be seen at
once that we cannot attempt anything like an exhaustive _resume_ of
its contents, and even if we did the details would be of little
interest to our general readers, while those who are engaged in the
leather industry will probably obtain the book for themselves--at
least they would do well to do so.... Altogether the 'Treatise' has
evidently been very carefully prepared, and by a man who thoroughly
knows the subject, and hence it will be a very valuable technical
book for English firms and workers.'--_Walsall Observer._
* * * * *
=Books on Pottery, Bricks, Tiles, Glass, etc.=
* * * * *
=THE MANUAL OF PRACTICAL POTTING.= Revised and Enlarged. Third Edition.
200 pp. 1901. Price 17s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 18s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 20s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
=Introduction.= The Rise and Progress of the Potter's Art.--Chapters I.,
=Bodies.= China and Porcelain Bodies, Parian Bodies, Semi-porcelain and
Vitreous Bodies, Mortar Bodies, Earthenwares Granite and C.C. Bodies,
Miscellaneous Bodies, Sagger and Crucible Clays, Coloured Bodies, Jasper
Bodies, Coloured Bodies for Mosaic Painting, Encaustic Tile Bodies, Body
Stains, Coloured Dips.--II., =Glazes.= China Glazes, Ironstone Glazes,
Earthenware Glazes, Glazes without Lead, Miscellaneous Glazes, Coloured
Glazes, Majolica Colours.--III., =Gold and Cold Colours.= Gold, Purple
of Cassius, Marone and Ruby, Enamel Coloured Bases, Enamel Colour
Fluxes, Enamel Colours, Mixed Enamel Colours, Antique and Vellum Enamel
Colours, Underglaze Colours, Underglaze Colour Fluxes, Mixed Underglaze
Colours, Flow Powders, Oils and Varnishes.--IV., =Means and Methods.=
Reclamation of Waste Gold, The Use of Cobalt, Notes on Enamel Colours,
Liquid or Bright Gold.--V., =Classification and Analysis.=
Classification of Clay Ware, Lord Playfair's Analysis of Clays, The
Markets of the World, Time and Scale of Firing, Weights of Potter's
Material, Decorated Goods Count.--VI., Comparative Loss of Weight of
Clays.--VII., Ground Felspar Calculations.--VIII., The Conversion of
Slop Body Recipes into Dry Weight.--IX., The Cost of Prepared
Earthenware Clay.--X., =Forms and Tables.= Articles of Apprenticeship,
Manufacturer's Guide to Stocktaking, Table of Relative Values of
Potter's Materials, Hourly Wages Table, Workman's Settling Table,
Comparative Guide for Earthenware and China Manufacturers in the use of
Slop Flint and Slop Stone, Foreign Terms applied to Earthenware and
China Goods, Table for the Conversion of Metrical Weights and Measures
on the Continent of South America. =Index.=
* * * * *
=CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY=: Being some Aspects of Technical Science as Applied
to Pottery Manufacture. Edited by CHARLES F. BINNS. 100 pp. 1897. Price
12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly
net.
=Contents.=
Preface.--Introduction.--Chapters I., The Chemistry of Pottery.--II.,
Analysis and Synthesis.--III., Clays and their Components.--IV., The
Biscuit Oven.--V., Pyrometry.--VI., Glazes and their Composition.--VII.,
Colours and Colour-making.--Index.
* * * * *
=RECIPES FOR FLINT GLASS MAKING.= By a British Glass Master and Mixer.
Sixty Recipes. Being Leaves from the Mixing Book of several experts in
the Flint Glass Trade, containing up-to-date recipes and valuable
information as to Crystal, Demi-crystal and Coloured Glass in its many
varieties. It contains the recipes for cheap metal suited to pressing,
blowing, etc., as well as the most costly crystal and ruby. British
manufacturers have kept up the quality of this glass from the arrivals
of the Venetians to Hungry Hill, Stourbridge, up to the present time.
The book also contains remarks as to the result of the metal as it left
the pots by the respective metal mixers, taken from their own memoranda
upon the originals. 1900. Price for United Kingdom, 10s. 6d.; Abroad.
15s.; United States, 84; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Ruby--Ruby from Copper--Flint for using with the Ruby for Coating--A
German Metal --Cornelian, or Alabaster--Sapphire
Blue--Crysophis--Opal--Turquoise Blue--Gold Colour --Dark Green--Green
(common)--Green for Malachite--Blue for Malachite--Black for Melachite
--Black--Common Canary Batch--Canary--White Opaque Glass--Sealing-wax
Red --Flint--Flint Glass (Crystal and Demi)--Achromatic Glass--Paste
Glass--White Enamel --Firestone--Dead White (for moons)--White
Agate--Canary--Canary Enamel--Index.
* * * * *
=COLOURING AND DECORATION OF CERAMIC WARE.= By ALEX. BRONGNIART. With
Notes and Additions by ALPHONSE SALVETAT. Translated from the French.
200 pp. 1898. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries,
8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
The Pastes, Bodies or Ceramic Articles Capable of being Decorated by
Vitrifiable Colours--The Chemical Preparation of Vitrifiable
Colours--Composition and Preparation of Vitrifiable Colours--The
Oxides--Preparation of Oxides--Preparation of Chromates--Preparation of
other Colours--Composition and Preparation of Fluxes--Muffle
Colours--Recipes for Colours--Use of Metals--Lustres--Preparation and
Application of Colours--Composition of Coloured Pastes--Underglaze
Colours--Colours in the Glaze--Overglaze Colours--Painting in
Vitrifiable Colours--Gilding--Burnishing--Printing--Enlarging and
Reducing Gelatine Prints--Muffle Kilns for Vitrifiable
Colours--Influence of the Material on the Colour--Changes Resulting from
the Actions of the Fire--Alterations Resulting from the
Colours--Alterations in Firing.
* * * * *
=HOW TO ANALYSE CLAY.= Practical Methods for Practical Men. By HOLDEN M.
ASHBY, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Harvey Medical College, U.S.A.
Twenty Illustrations. 1898. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
List of Apparatus--List of Atomic Weights--Use of Balance, and Burette,
Sand Bath, and Water Bath--Dessicator--Drying
Oven--Filtering--Fusion--Determination of Water, Organic Matter, Iron,
Calcium, Alkalies, Limestone, Silica, Alumina, Magnesium,
etc.--Mechanical Analysis--Rational Analysis--Standard
Solutions--Volumetric Analysis--Standards for Clay Analysis--Sampling.
* * * * *
=ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY.= Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-cottas,
Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware Mosaics, Faiences and
Architectural Stoneware. By LEON LOUVRE. With Five Plates. 950
Illustrations in the Text, and numerous estimates. 500 pp., royal 8vo.
1900. Translated from the French by K. H. BIRD, M.A., and W. MOORE
BINNS. Price 15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 17s. 6d.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
Part I. =Plain Undecorated Pottery.=--Chapter I., Clays: § 1,
Classification, General Geological Remarks.--Classification, Origin,
Locality; § 2, General Properties and Composition: Physical Properties,
Contraction, Analysis, Influence of Various Substances on the Properties
of Clays; § 3, Working of Clay-Pits--I. Open Pits: Extraction,
Transport, Cost--II. Underground Pits--Mining Laws. Chapter II.,
Preparation of the Clay: Weathering, Mixing, Cleaning, Crushing and
Pulverising--Crushing Cylinders and Mills, Pounding Machines--Damping:
Damping Machines--Soaking, Shortening, Pugging: Horse and Steam
Pug-Mills, Rolling Cylinders--Particulars of the Above Machines. Chapter
III., Bricks: § 1, Manufacture--(1) Hand and Machine Moulding,--I.
Machines Working by Compression: on Soft Clay, on Semi-Firm Clay, on
Firm Clay, on Dry Clay.--II. Expression Machines: with Cylindrical
Propellers, with Screw Propellers--Dies--Cutting-tables--Particulars of
the Above Machines--General Remarks on the Choice of Machines--Types of
Installations--Estimates--Plenishing, Hand and Steam Presses,
Particulars--(2) Drying, by Exposure to Air, Without Shelter, and Under
Sheds--Drying-rooms in Tiers, Closed Drying-rooms, in Tunnels, in
Galleries--Detailed Estimates of the Various Drying-rooms, Comparison of
Prices--Transport from the Machines to the Drying-rooms, Barrows,
Trucks, Plain or with Shelves, Lifts--(3) Firing--I. In Clamps--II. In
Intermittent Kilns. _A_, Open: _a_, using Wood; _b_ Coal; _b´_, in
Clamps; _b´´_, Flame--_B_, Closed: _c_, Direct Flame; _c´_, Rectangular;
_c´´_, Round; _d_, Reverberatory--III. Continuous Kilns: _C_, with Solid
Fuel: Round Kiln, Rectangular Kiln, Chimneys (Plans and Estimates)--_D_,
With Gas Fuel, Fillard Kiln (Plans and Estimates), Schneider Kiln (Plans
and Estimates), Water-gas Kiln--Heat Production of the Kilns; § 2,
Dimensions, Shapes, Colours, Decoration, and Quality of Bricks--Hollow
Bricks, Dimensions and Prices of Bricks, Various Shapes,
Qualities--Various Hollow Bricks, Dimensions, Resistance, Qualities; §
3, Applications --History--Asia, Africa, America, Europe: Greek, Roman,
Byzantine, Turkish, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance,
Architecture--Architecture of the Nineteenth Century: in Germany,
England, Belgium, Spain, Holland, France, America--Use of Bricks--Walls,
Arches, Pavements, Flues, Cornices--Facing with Coloured
Bricks--Balustrades. Chapter IV., Tiles: § 1, History; § 2,
Manufacture--(1) Moulding, by Hand, by Machinery: Preparation of the
Clay, Soft Paste, Firm Paste, Hard Paste--Preparation of the Slabs,
Transformation into Flat Tiles, into Jointed Tiles--Screw, Cam and
Revolver Presses--Particulars of Tile-presses--(2) Drying--Planchettes,
Shelves, Drying-barrows and Trucks--(3) Firing--Divided
Kilns--Installation of Mechanical Tileworks--Estimates; § 3, Shapes,
Dimensions and Uses of the Principal Types of Tile--Ancient Tiles: Flat,
Round, Roman, Flemish--Modern Tiles--With Vertical Interrupted Join:
Gilardoni's, Martin's; Hooked, Boulet's Villa; with Vertical Continuous
Join: Muller's, Alsace, Pantile--Foreign Tiles--Special Tiles--Ridge
Tiles, Coping Tiles, Border Tiles, Frontons, Gutters, Antefixes,
Membron, Angular--Roofing Accessories: Chimney-pots, Mitrons, Lanterns,
Chimneys--Qualities of Tiles--Black Tiles--Stoneware Tiles--Particulars
of Tiles. Chapter V., Pipes: I. Conduit Pipes--Manufacture--Moulding:
Horizontal Machines, Vertical Machines, Worked by Hand and
Steam--Particulars of these Machines--Drying--Firing--II. Chimney
Flues--Ventiducts and "Boisseaux," "Waggons"--Particulars of these
Products. Chapter VI., Quarries: 1, Plain Quarries of Ordinary Clay; 2,
of Cleaned Clay--Machines, Cutting, Mixing, Polishing--Drying and
Firing--Applications--Particulars of Quarries. Chapter VII.,
Terra-cotta: History--Manufacture--Application: Balustrades, Columns,
Pilasters, Capitals, Friezes, Frontons, Medallions, Panels,
Rose-windows, Ceilings--Appendix: Official Methods of Testing
Terra-cottas.
Part II. =Made-up or Decorated Pottery.=--Chapter I., General Remarks on
the Decoration of Pottery: Dips--Glazes: Composition, Colouring,
Preparation, Harmony with Pastes--Special Processes of
Decoration--Enamels, Opaque, Transparent, Colours, Underglaze,
Overglaze--Other Processes: Crackling, Mottled, Flashing, Metallic
Iridescence, Lustres. Chapter II., Glazed and Enamelled Bricks--History:
Glazing--Enamelling--Applications: Ordinary Enamelled Bricks, Glazed
Stoneware, Enamelled Stoneware--Enamelled Tiles. Chapter III., Decorated
Quarries: I. Paving Quarries--1, Decorated with Dips--2, Stoneware: _A_,
Fired to Stoneware: _a_, of Slag Base--Applications; _b_, of Melting
Clay--Applications--_B_, Plain or Incrusted Stoneware; _a_, of Special
Clay (Stoke-on-Trent)--Manufacture--Application--_b_, of Felspar
Base--Colouring, Manufacture, Moulding, Drying,
Firing--Applications.--II. Facing Quarries--1, in Faience--_A_, of
Limestone Paste--_B_, of Silicious Paste--_C_, of Felspar
Paste--Manufacture, Firing--2, of Glazed Stoneware--3, of
Porcelain--Applications of Facing Quarries.--III. Stove
Quarries--Preparation of the Pastes, Moulding, Firing, Enamelling,
Decoration--Applications--Faiences for Fireplaces. Chapter IV.,
Architectural Decorated Pottery: § 1, Faiences; § 2, Stoneware; § 3,
Porcelain. Chapter V., Sanitary Pottery: Stoneware Pipes: Manufacture,
Firing--Applications--Sinks--Applications--Urinals, Seats and
Pans--Applications--Drinking-fountains, Washstands. Index.
* * * * *
=A TREATISE ON THE CERAMIC INDUSTRIES.=
A Complete Manual for Pottery, Tile and Brick Works. By EMILE BOURRY,
Ingénieur des Arts et Manufactures. Translated from the French by WILTON
P. RIX, Examiner in Pottery and Porcelain to the City and Guilds of
London Technical Institute, Pottery Instructor to the Hanley School
Board. Royal 8vo. 1901. Over 700 pp. Price 21s.; India and Colonies,
22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Part I., =General Pottery Methods.= Chapters I., Definition and History.
Definitions and Classification of Ceramic Products--Historic Summary of
the Ceramic Art.--II., Raw Materials of Bodies. Clays: Pure Clay and
Natural Clays--Various Raw Materials: Analogous to Clay--Agglomerative
and Agglutinative--Opening--Fusible--Refractory--Trials of Raw
Materials.--III., Plastic Bodies. Properties and
Composition--Preparation of Raw Materials:
Disaggregation--Purification--Preparation of Bodies: By Plastic
Method--By Dry Method--By Liquid Method.--IV., Formation. Processes of
Formation: Throwing--Expression--Moulding by Hand, on the Jolley, by
Compression, by Slip Casting--Slapping--Slipping.--V., Drying. Drying of
Bodies--Processes of Drying: By Evaporation--By Aeration--By Heating--By
Ventilation--By Absorption.--VI., Glazes. Composition and
Properties--Raw Materials--Manufacture and Application.--VII., Firing.
Properties of the Bodies and Glazes during Firing--Description of the
Kilns--Working of the Kilns.--VIII., Decoration. Colouring
Materials--Processes of Decoration.
Part II., =Special Pottery Methods.= Chapters IX., Terra Cottas.
Classification: Plain Ordinary, Hollow, Ornamental, Vitrified, and Light
Bricks--Ordinary and Black Tiles--Paving Tiles--Pipes--Architectural
Terra Cottas--Vases, Statues and Decorative Objects--Common
Pottery--Pottery for Water and Filters--Tobacco Pipes--Lustre
Ware--Properties and Tests for Terra Cottas.--X., Fireclay Goods.
Classification: Argillaceous, Aluminous, Carboniferous, Silicious and
Basic Fireclay Goods--Fireclay Mortar (Pug)--Tests for Fireclay
Goods.--XI. Faiences. Varnished Faiences--Enamelled Faiences--Silicious
Faiences--Pipeclay Faiences--Pebble Work--Feldspathic
Faiences--Composition, Processes of Manufacture and General Arrangements
of Faience Potteries.--XII., Stoneware. Stoneware Properly So-called:
Paving Tiles--Pipes--Sanitary Ware--Stoneware for Food Purposes and
Chemical Productions--Architectural Stoneware--Vases, Statues and other
Decorative Objects--Fine Stoneware.--XIII., Porcelain. Hard Porcelain
for Table Ware and Decoration, for the Fire, for Electrical Conduits,
for Mechanical Purposes; Architectural Porcelain, and Dull or Biscuit
Porcelain--Soft Phosphated or English Porcelain--Soft Vitreous
Porcelain, French and New Sevres--Argillaceous Soft or Seger's
Porcelain--Dull Soft or Parian Porcelain--Dull Feldspathic Soft
Porcelain.--=Index.=
* * * * *
=THE ART OF RIVETING GLASS, CHINA AND EARTHENWARE.= By J. HOWARTH.
Second Edition. 1900. Price 1s. net; by post, home or abroad, 1s. 1d.
=Contents.=
Tools and Materials Required--Wire Used for Rivets--Soldering
Solution--Preparation for Drilling--Commencement of
Drilling--Cementing--Preliminaries to Riveting--Rivets to Make--To Fix
the Rivets--Through-and-through Rivets--Soldering--Tinning a
Soldering-iron--Perforated Plates, Handles, etc.--Handles of Ewers,
etc.--Vases and Comports--Marble and Alabaster Ware--Decorating--How to
Loosen Fast Decanter Stoppers--China Cements.
=NOTES OF POTTERY CLAYS.= Their Distribution, Properties, Uses and
Analyses of Ball Clays, China Clays and China Stone. By JAS. FAIRIE,
F.G.S. 1901. 132 pp. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 4s.;
Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Definitions--Occurrence--Brick Clays--Fire Clays--Analyses of Fire
Clays.--=Ball Clays=--Properties--Analyses--Occurrence--Pipe Clay--Black
Clay--Brown Clay--Blue Clay--Dorsetshire and Devonshire Clays.--=China
Clay= or Kaolin--Occurrence--Chinese Kaolin--Cornish Clays--Hensbarrow
Granite--Properties, Analyses and Composition of China Clays--Method of
Obtaining China Clay--Experiments with Chinese Kaolin--Analyses of
Chinese and Japanese Clays and Bodies--Irish Clays.--=Chinese
Stone=--Composition--Occurrence--Analyses.--Index.
* * * * *
=PAINTING ON GLASS AND PORCELAIN AND ENAMEL PAINTING.= A Complete
Introduction to the Preparation of all the Colours and Fluxes used for
Painting on Porcelain, Enamel, Faience and Stoneware, the Coloured
Pastes and Coloured Glasses, together with a Minute Description of the
Firing of Colours and Enamels. On the Basis of Personal Practical
Experience of the Condition of the Art up to Date. By FELIX HERMANN,
Technical Chemist. With Eighteen Illustrations. 300 pp. Translated from
the German second and enlarged Edition. 1897. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
History of Glass Painting.--Chapters I., The Articles to be Painted:
Glass, Porcelain, Enamel, Stoneware, Faience.--II., Pigments: 1,
Metallic Pigments: Antimony Oxide, Naples Yellow, Barium Chromate, Lead
Chromate, Silver Chloride, Chromic Oxide.--III., Fluxes: Fluxes,
Felspar, Quartz, Purifying Quartz, Sedimentation, Quenching, Borax,
Boracic Acid, Potassium and Sodium Carbonates, Rocaille Flux.--IV.,
Preparation of the Colours for Glass Painting.--V., The Colour
Pastes.--VI., The Coloured Glasses.--VII., Composition of the Porcelain
Colours.--VIII., The Enamel Colours: Enamels for Artistic Work.--IX.,
Metallic Ornamentation: Porcelain Gilding, Glass Gilding.--X., Firing
the Colours: 1, Remarks on Firing: Firing Colours on Glass. Firing
Colours on Porcelain; 2, The Muffle.--XI., Accidents occasionally
Supervening during the Process of Firing.--XII., Remarks on the
Different Methods of Painting on Glass, Porcelain, etc.--Appendix:
Cleaning Old Glass Paintings.
=Press Opinions.=
"Mr. Hermann, by a careful division of his subject, avoids much
repetition, yet makes sufficiently clear what is necessary to be
known in each art. He gives very many formulæ; and his hints on the
various applications of metals and metallic lustres to glass and
porcelains will be found of much interest to the amateur."--_Art
Amateur_, New York.
"For the unskilled and amateurs the name of the publishers will be
sufficient guarantee for the utility and excellence of Mr.
Hermann's work, even if they are already unacquainted with the
author.... The whole cannot fail to be both of service and interest
to glass workers and to potters generally, especially those
employed upon high-class work."--_Staffordshire Sentinel._
"In _Painting on Glass and Porcelain_ the author has dealt very
exhaustively with the technical as distinguished from the artistic
side of his subject, the work being entirely devoted to the
preparation of the colours, their application and firing. For
manufacturers and students it will be a valuable work, and the
recipes which appear on almost every page form a very valuable
feature. The author has gained much of his experience in the
celebrated Sevres manufactory, a fact which adds a good deal of
authority to the work."--_Builders Journal._
"The compiler displays that painstaking research characteristic of
his nation, and goes at length into the question of the chemical
constitution of the pigments and fluxes to be used in
glass-painting, proceeding afterwards to a description of the
methods of producing coloured glass of all tints and shades....
Very careful instructions are given for the chemical and mechanical
preparation of the colours used in glass-staining and
porcelain-painting; indeed, to the china painter such a book as
this should be of permanent value, as the author claims to have
tested and verified every recipe he includes, and the volume also
comprises a section devoted to enamels both opaque and translucent,
and another treating of the firing of porcelain, and the accidents
that occasionally supervene in the furnace."--_Daily Chronicle._
* * * * *
=A Reissue of
THE HISTORY OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES; AND THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF
THE MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.=
With References to Genuine Specimens, and Notices of Eminent Potters. By
SIMEON SHAW. (Originally Published in 1829.) 265 pp. 1900. Demy 8vo.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
=Introductory Chapter= showing the position of the Pottery Trade at the
present time (1899).--Chapters I., =Preliminary Remarks.=--II., =The
Potteries=, comprising Tunstall, Brownhills, Greenfield and New Field,
Golden Hill, Latebrook, Green Lane, Burslem, Longport and Dale Hall, Hot
Lane and Cobridge, Hanley and Shelton, Etruria, Stoke, Penkhull, Fenton,
Lane Delph, Foley, Lane End.--III., =On the Origin of the Art=, and its
Practice among the early Nations.--IV., =Manufacture of Pottery=, prior
to 1700.--V., =The Introduction of Red Porcelain= by Messrs. Elers, of
Bradwell, 1690.--VI., =Progress of the Manufacture= from 1700 to Mr.
Wedgwood's commencement in 1760.--VII. =Introduction of Fluid
Glaze.=--Extension of the Manufacture of Cream Colour.--Mr. Wedgwood's
Queen's Ware.--Jasper, and Appointment of Potter to Her Majesty.--Black
Printing.--VIII., =Introduction of Porcelain.= Mr. W. Littler's
Porcelain.--Mr. Cookworthy's Discovery of Kaolin and Petuntse, and
Patent.--Sold to Mr. Champion--resold to the New Hall Com.--Extension of
Term.--IX., =Blue Printed Pottery.= Mr. Turner, Mr. Spode (1), Mr.
Baddeley, Mr. Spode (2), Messrs. Turner, Mr. Wood, Mr. Wilson, Mr.
Minton.--Great Change in Patterns of Blue Printed.--X., =Introduction of
Lustre Pottery.= Improvements in Pottery and Porcelain subsequent to
1800.
=Press Opinions.=
"There is much curious and useful information in the work, and the
publishers have rendered the public a service in reissuing
it."--_Burton Mail._
"Copies of the original work are now of considerable value, and the
facsimile reprint now issued cannot but prove of considerable
interest to all interested in the great industry."--_Derby Mercury._
"The book will be especially welcomed at a time when interest in the
art of pottery manufacture commands a more widespread and general
interest than at any previous time."--_Wolverhampton Chronicle._
"This work is all the more valuable because it gives one an idea of
the condition of affairs existing in the north of Staffordshire
before the great increase in work and population due to modern
developments."--_Western Morning News._
"The History gives a graphic picture of North Staffordshire at the
end of the last and the beginning of the present century, and states
that in 1829 there was 'a busy and enterprising community' in the
Potteries of fifty thousand persons.... We commend it to our readers
as a most entertaining and instructive publication,"--_Staffordshire
Sentinel._
* * * * *
=A Reissue of=
=THE CHEMISTRY OF THE SEVERAL NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL HETEROGENEOUS
COMPOUNDS USED IN MANUFACTURING PORCELAIN, GLASS AND POTTERY.=
By SIMEON SHAW.
(Originally published in 1837.) 750 pp. 1900. Royal 8vo. Price 14s.;
India and Colonies, 15s.; Other Countries, 16s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
PART I., ANALYSIS AND MATERIALS.--Chapters I., =Introduction:=
Laboratory and Apparatus; =Elements:= Combinative Potencies,
Manipulative Processes for Analysis and Reagents, Pulverisation,
Blow-pipe Analysis, Humid Analysis, Preparatory Manipulations, General
Analytic Processes, Compounds Soluble in Water, Compounds Soluble only
in Acids, Compounds (Mixed) Soluble in Water, Compounds (Mixed) Soluble
in Acids, Compounds (Mixed) Insoluble, Particular Analytic
Processes.--II., =Temperature:= Coal, Steam Heat for Printers'
Stoves.--III., =Acids and Alkalies:= Boracic Acid, Muriatic Acid, Nitric
Acid, Sulphuric Acid, Potash, Soda, Lithia, Calculation of Chemical
Separations.--IV., =The Earths:= Alumine, Clays, Silica, Flint, Lime,
Plaster of Paris, Magnesia, Barytes, Felspar, Grauen (or China Stone),
China Clay, Chert.--V., =Metals:= Reciprocal Combinative Potencies of
the Metals, Antimony, Arsenic, Chromium, Green Oxide, Cobalt, Chromic
Acid, Humid Separation of Nickel from Cobalt, Arsenite of Cobalt,
Copper, Gold, Iron, Lead, Manganese, Platinum, Silver, Tin, Zinc.
PART II., SYNTHESIS AND COMPOUNDS.--Chapters I., Sketch of the Origin
and Progress of the Art.--II., =Science of Mixing:= Scientific
Principles of the Manufacture, Combinative Potencies of the
Earths.--III., =Bodies:= Porcelain--Hard, Porcelain--Fritted Bodies,
Porcelain--Raw Bodies, Porcelain--Soft, Fritted Bodies, Raw Bodies,
Stone Bodies, Ironstone, Dry Bodies, Chemical Utensils, Fritted Jasper,
Fritted Pearl, Fritted Drab, Raw Chemical Utensils, Raw Stone, Raw
Jasper, Raw Pearl, Raw Mortar, Raw Drab, Raw Brown, Raw Fawn, Raw Cane,
Raw Red Porous, Raw Egyptian, Earthenware, Queen's Ware, Cream Colour,
Blue and Fancy Printed, Dipped and Mocha, Chalky, Rings, Stilts,
etc.--IV., =Glazes:= Porcelain--Hard Fritted, Porcelain--Soft Fritted,
Porcelain--Soft Raw, Cream Colour Porcelain, Blue Printed Porcelain,
Fritted Glazes, Analysis of Fritt, Analysis of Glaze, Coloured Glazes,
Dips, Smears and Washes: =Glasses:= Flint Glass, Coloured Glasses,
Artificial Garnet, Artificial Emerald, Artificial Amethyst, Artificial
Sapphire, Artificial Opal, Plate Glass, Crown Glass, Broad Glass, Bottle
Glass, Phosphoric Glass, British Steel Glass, Glass-Staining and
Painting, Engraving on Glass, Dr. Faraday's Experiments.--V., =Colours:=
Colour Making, Fluxes or Solvents, Components of the Colours: Reds,
etc., from Gold, Carmine or Rose Colour, Purple, Reds, etc., from Iron,
Blues, Yellows, Greens, Blacks, White, Silver for Burnishing, Gold for
Burnishing, Printer's Oil, Lustres.
PART III., TABLES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL
SUBSTANCES.--Preliminary Remarks, Oxygen (Tables), Sulphur and its
Compounds, Nitrogen ditto, Chlorine ditto, Bromine ditto, Iodine ditto,
Fluorine ditto, Phosphorous ditto, Boron ditto, Carbon ditto, Hydrogen
ditto, Observations, Ammonium and its Compounds (Tables), Thorium ditto,
Zirconium ditto, Aluminium ditto, Yttrium ditto, Glucinum ditto,
Magnesium ditto, Calcium ditto, Strontium ditto, Barium ditto, Lithium
ditto, Sodium and its Compounds Potassium ditto, Observations, Selenium
and its Compounds (Tables), Arsenic ditto, Chromium ditto, Vanadium
ditto, Molybdenum ditto, Tungsten ditto, Antimony ditto, Tellurium
ditto, Tantalum ditto, Titanium ditto, Silicium ditto, Osmium ditto,
Gold ditto, Iridium ditto, Rhodium ditto, Platinum ditto, Palladium
ditto, Mercury ditto, Silver ditto, Copper ditto, Uranium ditto, Bismuth
and its Compounds, Tin ditto, Lead ditto, Cerium ditto, Cobalt ditto,
Nickel ditto, Iron ditto, Cadmium ditto, Zinc ditto, Manganese ditto,
Observations, Isomorphous Groups, Isomeric ditto, Metameric ditto,
Polymeric ditto, Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"This interesting volume has been kept from the pencil of the modern
editor and reprinted in its entirety by the enterprising publishers of
_The Pottery Gazette_ and other trade journals.... There is an excellent
historical sketch of the origin and progress of the art of pottery which
shows the intimate knowledge of classical as well as (the then) modern
scientific literature possessed by the late Dr. Shaw; even the etymology
of many of the Staffordshire place-names is given."--_Glasgow Herald._
"The historical sketch of the origin and progress of pottery is very
interesting and instructive. The science of mixing is a problem of great
importance, and the query how the natural products, alumina and silica
can be compounded to form the best wares may be solved by the aid of
chemistry instead of by guesses, as was formerly the case. This portion
of the book may be most suggestive to the manufacturer, as also the
chapters devoted to the subject of glazes, glasses and
colours."--_Birmingham Post._
"Messrs. Scott, Greenwood & Co. are doing their best to place before the
pottery trades some really good books, likely to aid the Staffordshire
manufacturers, and their spirited enterprise is worthy of encouragement,
for the utility of technical literature bearing upon the practical side
of potting goes without saying.... They are to be congratulated on their
enterprise in republishing it, and we can only hope that they will meet
with the support they deserve. It seems to be a volume that is worth
looking through by both manufacturers and operatives alike, and all
local institutions, at any rate, should secure copies."--_Staffordshire
Sentinel._
* * * * *
=Paper Making.=
* * * * *
=THE DYEING OF PAPER PULP.= A Practical Treatise for the use of
Papermakers, Paperstainers. Students and others. By JULIUS ERFURT,
Manager of a Paper Mill. Translated into English and Edited with
Additions by JULIUS HÜBNER, F.C.S., Lecturer on Papermaking at the
Manchester Municipal Technical School. With Illustrations and =157
patterns of paper dyed in the pulp.= Royal 8vo, 180 pp. 1901. Price
15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 20s.; strictly net.
Limited edition.
=Contents.=
I., =Behaviour of the Paper Fibres during the Process of Dyeing, Theory
of the Mordant=--Cotton: Flax and Hemp; Esparto; Jute; Straw Cellulose:
Chemical and Mechanical Wood Pulp; Mixed Fibres: Theory of Dyeing.--II.,
=Colour Fixing Mediums (Mordants)=--Alum: Aluminium Sulphate; Aluminium
Acetate; Tin Crystals (Stannous Chloride); Copperas (Ferrous Sulphate);
Nitrate of Iron (Ferric Sulphate); Pyrolignite of Iron (Acetate of
Iron); Action of Tannic Acid; Importance of Materials containing Tannin;
Treatment with Tannic Acid of Paper Pulp intended for dyeing; Blue Stone
(Copper Sulphate): Potassium Bichromate: Sodium Bichromate; Chalk
(Calcium Carbonate); Soda Crystals (Sodium Carbonate): Antimony
Potassium Tartrate (Tartar Emetic).--III., =Influence of the Quality of
the Water Used.=--IV., =Inorganic Colours=--1. Artificial Mineral
Colours: Iron Buff; Manganese Bronze: Chrome Yellow (Chromate of Lead):
Chrome Orange (Basic Chromate of Lead): Red Lead; Chrome Green: Blue
with Yellow Prussiate: Prussian Blue: Method for Producing Prussian Blue
free from Acid: Ultramarine--2. Natural Mineral Colours (Earth Colours):
Yellow Earth Colours: Red Earth Colours; Brown Earth Colours; Green,
Grey and Black Earth Colours: White Earth Colours: White Clay (China
Clay): White Gypsum; Baryta: Magnesium Carbonate: Talc, Soapstone.--V.,
=Organic Colours=--1. Colours of Vegetable and Animal Origin: _(a)
Substantive (Direct Dyeing) Colouring Matters:_ Annatto; Turmeric:
Safflower; _(b) Adjective (Indirect Dyeing) Colouring Matters:_ Redwood;
Cochineal; Weld: Persian Berries; Fustic Extract; Quercitron: Catechu
(Cutch); Logwood Extract--2. Artificial Organic (Coal Tar) Colours: Acid
Colours; Basic Colours: Substantive (Direct Dyeing) Colours; Dissolving
of the Coal Tar Colours: Auramine O O; Naphthol Yellow S O; Quinoline
Yellow O: Metanil Yellow O: Paper Yellow O: Azoflavine RS O, S O; Cotton
Yellow G X X and R X X: Orange 11 O: Chrysoidine A O O, RL O O: Vesuvine
Extra O O; Vesuvine BC O O; Fast.
Brown O, Naphthylamine Brown O; Water Blue IN O; Water Blue TB O;
Victoria Blue B O O; Methylene Blue MD O O; Nile Blue R O O; New Blue
S O O; Indoine Blue BB O O; Eosine 442 Nx; Phloxine B B N; Rhodamine B
O O; Rhodamine 6G O O: Naphthylamine Red G O; Fast Red A O; Cotton
Scarlet O; Erythrine RR O; Erythrine X O; Erythrine P O; Ponceau 2 R
O; Fast Ponceau G O and B O; Paper Scarlet P O O; Saffranine PP O O;
Magenta Powder A O O; Acetate of Magenta O O; Cerise D 10 O O; Methyl
Violet BB O O; Crystal Violet O O; Acid Violet 3 BN O, 4 R O; Diamond
Green B O O; Nigrosine WL O; Coal Black O O; Brilliant Black B
O.--VI., =Practical Application of the Coal Tar Colours according to
their Properties and their Behaviour towards the Different Paper
Fibres=--Coal Tar Colours, which rank foremost, as far as their
fastness to light is concerned; Colour Combinations with which
colourless or nearly colourless Backwater is obtained; Colours which
do not bleed into White Fibres, for Blotting and Copying Paper Pulp;
Colours which produce the best results on Mechanical Wood and on
Unbleached Sulphite Wood; Dyeing of Cotton, Jute and Wool Half-stuff
for Mottling White or Light Coloured Papers; Colours suitable for
Cotton; Colours specially suitable for Jute Dyeing; Colours suitable
for Wool Fibres.--VII., =Dyed Patterns on Various Pulp
Mixtures=--Placard and Wrapping Papers; Black Wrapping and Cartridge
Papers; Blotting Papers; Mottled and Marbled Papers made with Coloured
Linen, Cotton and Union Rags, or with Cotton, Jute, Wool and Sulphite
Wood Fibres, dyed specially for this purpose; Mottling with Dark Blue
Linen; Mottling with Dark Blue Linen and Dark Blue Cotton; Mottling
with Dark Blue Cotton; Mottling with Dark Blue and Red Cotton;
Mottling with Dark Red Cotton; Mottling of Bleached Stuff, with 3 to 4
per cent. of Dyed Cotton Fibres; Mottling with Dark Blue Union (Linen
and Wool or Cotton Warp with Wool Weft); Mottling with Blue Striped
Red Union; Mottling of Bleached Stuff with 3 to 4 per cent. of Dyed
Wool Fibres; Mottling of Bleached Stuff with 3 to 4 per cent. of Dyed
Jute Fibres; Mottling of Bleached Stuff with 3 to 4 per cent. of Dyed
Sulphite Wood Fibres: Wall Papers; Packing Papers.--VIII., =Dyeing to
Shade=--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"The book is one that is of value to every one connected with the
colouring of paper."--_Paper Trade Journal._
"The great feature of the volume is undoubtedly the series of
actual patterns of dyed papers, 157 in all--twelve of which, made
in England, have been added to the original German series. Detailed
formulæ are given for the preparation of the pulp for each, and the
tints of the samples practically form a key, by means of which the
accuracy of the student's or practitioner's experiments can be
tested.... On the whole the publication is one of distinct
importance to the trade, and will no doubt speedily become a
standard work of reference amongst papermakers, both in the 'lab.'
and the office, as well as being an excellent text-book for the use
of students in the increasing number of technical institutes in
which papermaking is taught."--_World's Paper Trade Review._
* * * * *
=Enamelling on Metal.=
* * * * *
=ENAMELS AND ENAMELLING.= An Introduction to the Preparation and
Application of all Kinds of Enamels for Technical and Artistic Purposes.
For Enamel Makers, Workers in Gold and Silver, and Manufacturers of
Objects of Art. By PAUL RANDAU. Translated from the German. With Sixteen
Illustrations. 180 pp. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.;
Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
I., Introduction.--II., Composition and Properties of Glass.--III., Raw
Materials for the Manufacture of Enamel.--IV., Substances Added to
Produce Opacity.--V., Fluxes.--VI., Pigments.--VII., Decolorising
Agents.--VIII., Testing the Raw Materials with the Blow-pipe
Flame.--IX., Subsidiary Materials.--X., Preparing the Materials for
Enamel Making.--XI., Mixing the Materials.--XII., The Preparation of
Technical Enamels, The Enamel Mass.--XIII., Appliances for Smelting the
Enamel Mass.--XIV., Smelting the Charge.--XV., Composition of Enamel
Masses.--XVI., Composition of Masses for Ground Enamels.--XVII.,
Composition of Cover Enamels.--XVIII., Preparing the Articles for
Enamelling.--XIX., Applying the Enamel.--XX., Firing the Ground
Enamel.--XXI., Applying and Firing the Cover Enamel or Glaze.--XXII.,
Repairing Defects in Enamelled Ware.--XXIII., Enamelling Articles of
Sheet Metal.--XXIV., Decorating Enamelled Ware.--XXV., Specialities in
Enamelling.--XXVI., Dial-plate Enamelling.--XXVII., Enamels for Artistic
Purposes, Recipes for Enamels of Various Colours.--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"Should prove of great service to all who are either engaged in or
interested in the art of enamelling."--_Jewellers and Watchmakers'
Trade Advertiser._
"I must inform you that this is the best book ever I have come
across on enamels, and it is worth double its cost."--J. MINCHIN,
Jr., Porto, Portugal, _22nd July, 1900_.
"This is a very useful and thoroughly practical treatise, and deals
with every branch of the enameller's art. The manufacture of
enamels of various colours and the methods of their application are
described in detail. Besides the commoner enamelling processes,
some of the more important special branches of the business, such
as cloisonne work are dealt with. The work is well got up, and the
illustrations of apparatus are well executed. The translator is
evidently a man well acquainted both with the German language and
the subject-matter of the book."--_Invention._
"This is a most welcome volume, and one for which we have long
waited in this country. For years we have been teaching design
applied to enamelling as well as to several other crafts, but we
have not risen to the scientific side of the question. Here is a
handbook dealing with the composition and making of enamels for
application to metals for the most part, but also for other allied
purposes. It is written in a thoroughly practical way [Transcribers
Note: Text source unreadable], and its author--Paul Randau--has made
its subject a very particular study. The [Transcribers Note: Text
source unreadable] almost all things which come from the German
chemical expert, is a model of good workmanship [Transcribers Note:
Text source unreadable] and arrangement, and no one who is in search
of a handbook to enamelling, [Transcribers Note: Text source
unreadable] whether he is a craftsman producing his beautiful
translucent colours on gold, silver and copper, or the hollow-ware
manufacturer making enamelled saucepans and kettles, can wish for a
more useful practical manual."--_Birmingham Gazette._
* * * * *
=THE ART OF ENAMELLING ON METAL.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. Twenty-eight
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 60 pp. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., History--Cloisonné--Champs Levé--Translucent
Enamel--Surface Painted Enamels.--II., Cloisonné--Champs
Levés--Translucent--Painted.--III., Painted Enamel--Apparatus--Furnaces
and Muffles for Firing.--IV., The Copper Base or
Plate--Planishing--Cloisons--Champ Levé Plates.--V.,
Enamels--Trituration--Washing--Coating a Plate with Enamel--Firing
Ordinary Plaques for Painting--Designing--Squaring off.--VI., Designs
for Cloisonné--Designs for Painted Enamels--Technical
Processes--Brushes, etc.,--Colours--Grisaille--Full-coloured Designs.
=Press Opinion.=
"The information conveyed in _The Art of Enamelling on Metal_ is as
complete as can be expected in a manual of ordinary length, and is
quite ample in all respects to start students in a most interesting
branch of decorative art. All necessary requisites are fully
described and illustrated, and the work is one, indeed, which any
one may pursue with interest, for those who are interested
artistically in enamels are a numerous body."--_Hardware Metals and
Machinery._
* * * * *
=Books on Textile and Dyeing Subjects.=
* * * * *
=THE TECHNICAL TESTING OF YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS.= With Reference to
Official Specifications. Translated from the German of Dr. J. HERZFELD.
Second Edition. Sixty-nine Illustrations. 200 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price
10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Yarn Testing:. III., Determining the Yarn Number.--IV., Testing the
Length of Yarns.--V., Examination of the External Appearance of
Yarn.--VI., Determining the Twist of Yarn and Twist.--VII.,
Determination of Tensile Strength and Elasticity.--VIII., Estimating the
Percentage of Fat in Yarn.--IX., Determination of Moisture
(Conditioning).--Appendix.
=Press Opinions.=
"It would be well if our English manufacturers would avail
themselves of this important addition to the extensive list of
German publications which, by the spread of technical information,
contribute in no small degree to the success, and sometimes to the
supremacy, of Germany in almost every branch of textile
manufacture."--_Manchester Courier._
"This is probably the most exhaustive book published in English on
the subject dealt with.... We have great confidence in recommending
the purchase of this book by all manufacturers of textile goods of
whatever kind, and are convinced that the concise and direct way in
which it is written, which has been admirably conserved by the
translator, renders it peculiarly adapted for the use of English
readers."--_Textile Recorder._
"A careful study of this book enables one to say with certainty
that it is a standard work on the subject. Its importance is
enhanced greatly by the probability that we have here, for the
first time in our own language, in one volume, a full, accurate,
and detailed account, by a practical expert, of the best technical
methods for the testing of textile materials, whether in the raw
state or in the more or less finished product."--_Glasgow Herald._
"The author has endeavoured to collect and arrange in systematic
form for the first time all the data relating to both physical and
chemical tests as used throughout the whole of the textile
industry, so that not only the commercial and textile chemist, who
has frequently to reply to questions on these matters, but also the
practical manufacturer of textiles and his subordinates, whether in
spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing, are catered for.... The
book is profusely illustrated, and the subjects of these
illustrations are clearly described."--_Textile Manufacturer._
* * * * *
=DECORATIVE AND FANCY TEXTILE FABRICS.=
With Designs and Illustrations. By R.T. LORD. A Valuable Book for
Manufacturers and Designers of Carpets, Damask, Dress and all Textile
Fabrics. 200 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. 132 Designs and Illustrations. Price
7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly
net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics.--II.,
A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued).--III.,
A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued).--IV., A
Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued).--V.,
Hints for Ruled-paper Draughtsmen.--VI., The Jacquard Machine.--VII.,
Brussels and Wilton Carpets.--VIII., Tapestry Carpets.--IX., Ingrain
Carpets.--X., Axminster Carpets.--XI., Damask and Tapestry
Fabrics.--XII., Scarf Silks and Ribbons.--XIII., Silk
Handkerchiefs.--XIV., Dress Fabrics.--XV., Mantle Cloths.--XVI., Figured
Plush.--XVII., Bed Quilts.--XVIII., Calico Printing.
=Press Opinions.=
"The book can be strongly recommended to students and practical
men."--_Textile Colourist._
"Those engaged in the designing of dress, mantle tapestry, carpet
and other ornamental textiles will find this volume a useful work
of reference."--_Leeds Mercury._
"The book is to be commended as a model manual, appearing at an
opportune time, since every day is making known a growing desire
for development in British industrial art."--_Dundee Advertiser._
"Designers especially, who desire to make progress in their
calling, will do well to take the hints thrown out in the first
four chapters on 'Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics'."--_Nottingham
Daily Guardian._
* * * * *
=POWER-LOOM WEAVING AND YARN NUMBERING.= According to Various Systems,
with Conversion Tables. An Auxiliary and Text-book for Pupils of Weaving
Schools, as well as for Self-Instruction and for General Use by those
engaged in the Weaving Industry. Translated from the German of ANTHON
GRUNER. =With Twenty-six Diagrams in Colours.= 150 pp. 1900. Crown 8vo.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
I., =Power-Loom Weaving in General.= Various Systems of Looms.--II.,
=Mounting and Starting the Power-Loom.= English Looms.--Tappet or
Treadle Looms.--Dobbies.--III., =General Remarks on the Numbering,
Reeling and Packing-of Yarn.=--=Appendix.=--=Useful Hints.= Calculating
Warps.--Weft Calculations.--Calculations of Cost Price in Hanks.
=Press Opinions.=
"A long-felt want in the weaving industry has been supplied by the
issue of a cheap volume dealing with the subject."--_Belfast Evening
Telegraph._
"The work has been clearly translated from the German and published
with suitable illustrations.... The author has dealt very
practically with the subject."--_Bradford Daily Telegraph._
"The book, which contains a number of useful coloured diagrams,
should prove invaluable to the student, and its handy form will
enable it to become a companion more than some cumbrous work."
--_Cotton Factory Times._
"The book has been prepared with great care, and is most usefully
illustrated. It is a capital text-book for use in the weaving
schools or for self-instruction, while all engaged in the weaving
industry will find its suggestions helpful."--_Northern Daily
Telegraph._
"The various systems are treated in a careful manner; also the
different looms and their manufacture, as well as the whole
processes of the work. Yarn numbering according to various systems,
with conversion tables and numerous coloured diagrams, materially
assist to a clear comprehension of the subject."--_Northern Whig._
"The 'inside' managers of our textile mills in which the work is
complex or greatly varied, and where yarns of different materials
are in use, will find this work convenient for reference in case of
novelty or difficulty. We may also say the same in relation to the
textile student. Its description of the parts of the loom and their
functions will be of use to the latter, being of the most
elementary kind."--_Textile Mercury._
"The author attempts to fill a gap in weaving literature caused by
the neglect of many obscure points connected with the industry. A
short review is given of the power-loom as a whole, followed by a
description of the different parts of the machinery with their
advantages and defects.... The book is severely technical, but must
on that account be very valuable to the pupil who is determined to
master this industrial art."--_Cheshire County News._
"It is clear and concise, and gives just that knowledge in quality
and amount which any student of the weaving industry ought to
consider as a minimum necessary for his thorough comprehension of
his future profession. The handiness and variety of the information
comprised in Section III., dealing with the numbering and reeling
of yarns employed in the various systems in different countries,
struck us as particularly useful."--_North British Daily Mail._
"This work brings before weavers who are actually engaged in the
various branches of fabrics, as well as the technical student, the
different parts of the general run of power-looms in such a manner
that the parts of the loom and their bearing to each other can be
readily understood.... The work should prove of much value, as it
is in every sense practical, and is put before the reader in such a
clear manner that it can be easily understood."--_Textile Industries._
"The book under notice is intended as an instructor to those
engaged in power-loom weaving, and, judging by its compilation, the
author is a thorough master of the craft. It is not overloaded with
details, and he manages to compress in a book of some 150 pages all
that one can possibly wish to know about the different parts of the
machinery, whether of English or foreign make, and for whatever
kind of cloth required. A comprehensive summary is also included of
the various yarns and methods of numbering them, as well as a few
useful hints and a number of coloured diagrams for mandarin
weavings. The book is printed in bold, legible type, on good paper,
has a copious index, and is well and strongly
bound."--_Ashton-under-Lyne Herald._
"In dealing with the complicated parts of various classes of
power-looms, the writer, who is one of the professors at the Royal
Weaving School of Asch, brings to the work a thorough knowledge of
the subject, and, what is of great value, he has the gift of
communicating his knowledge in a way which is easily understood.
The smallest details of loom-setting are entered into, and a full
explanation of problems, which are a source of anxiety to many
engaged in overlooking, is given. Students will find the work an
admirable text-book, and all who are interested in weaving will see
in it a valuable addition to the literature on this subject.... The
book is in small compass, and is crowded with valuable
information."--_Bradford Observer._
* * * * *
=COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR.= By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S.
=With Ten Coloured Plates= and Seventy-two Illustrations. 160 pp. Demy
8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s.
6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., =Colour and Its Production.= Light, Colour, Dispersion of
White Light Methods of Producing the Spectrum, Glass Prism and
Diffraction Grating Spectroscopes, The Spectrum, Wave Motion of Light,
Recomposition of White Light, Hue, Luminosity, Purity of Colours, The
Polariscope, Phosphorescence, Fluorescence, Interference.--II., =Cause
of Colour in Coloured Bodies.= Transmitted Colours, Absorption Spectra
of Colouring Matters.--III., =Colour Phenomena and Theories.= Mixing
Colours, White Light from Coloured Lights, Effect of Coloured Light on
Colours, Complementary Colours, Young-Helmholtz Theory, Brewster Theory,
Supplementary Colours, Maxwell's Theory, Colour Photography.--IV., =The
Physiology of Light.= Structure of the Eye, Persistence of Vision,
Subjective Colour Phenomena, Colour Blindness.--V., =Contrast.=
Contrast, Simultaneous Contrast, Successive Contrast, Contrast of Tone.
Contrast of Colours, Modification of Colours by Contrast, Colour
Contrast in Decorative Design.--VI., =Colour in Decoration and Design.=
Colour Harmonies, Colour Equivalents, Illumination and Colour, Colour
and Textile Fabrics, Surface Structure and Colour.--VII., =Measurement
of Colour.= Colour Patch Method, The Tintometer, Chromometer.
=Press Opinions.=
"This useful little book possesses considerable merit, and will be
of great utility to those for whom it is primarily
intended."--_Birmingham Post._
"It will be found to be of direct service to the majority of dyers,
calico printers and colour mixers, to whom we confidently recommend
it."--_Chemical Trade Journal._
"It is thoroughly practical, and gives in simple language the why
and wherefore of the many colour phenomena which perplex the dyer
and the colourist."--_Dyer and Calico Printer._
"We have found the book very interesting, and can recommend it to
all who wish to master the different aspects of colour theory, with
a view to a practical application of the knowledge so
gained."--_Chemist and Druggist._
"Mr. Hurst's _Handbook on the Theory of Colour_ will be found
extremely useful, not only to the art student, but also to the
craftsman, whose business it is to manipulate pigments and
dyes."--_Nottingham Daily Guardian._
* * * * *
=TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS AND THEIR CONVERSION INTO YARNS.= (The Study of
the Raw Materials and the Technology of the Spinning Process.) Text-book
for Textile, Trade and Higher Technical Schools. By JULIUS ZIPSER.
Translated from German by CHARLES SALTER. 302 Illustrations. 480 pp.
Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
=Raw Materials=: Cotton--Wool--Flax--Hemp--Jute--Hair--Shearing
Sheep--Goat Wool--Silk--Detection and Estimation of Textile Raw
Materials in Yarns and Fabrics--Tests.--=The Technology of Spinning.
Cotton Spinning:= Bale Breakers--Carding--Combing--Roving--Mule
Frames--Yarn Testing--Humidifiers. =Flax Spinning:= Tow Spinning--String
Spinning--Carded Woollen Yarn--Belt Condenser--Fine Spinning--Yarn
Numbering.--=Manufacture of True Worsted Yarn:= Semi-Worsted
Yarns.--=Artificial Wool or Shoddy Spinning:= Spinning
Shoddy.--=Index.=
* * * * *
=THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS.= A Useful Manual for Colour
Chemists and Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Seventeen
Illustrations. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s. Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Structure and Constitution of Wool Fibre.--II., Yarn
Scouring.--III., Scouring Materials.--IV., Water for Scouring.--V.,
Bleaching Carpet Yarns.--VI., Colour Making for Yarn Printing.--VII.,
Colour Printing Pastes.--VIII., Colour Recipes for Yarn Printing.--IX.,
Science of Colour Mixing.--X., Matching of Colours.--XI., "Hank"
Printing.--XII., Printing Tapestry Carpet Yarns.--XIII., Yarn
Printing.--XIV., Steaming Printed Yarns.--XV., Washing of Steamed
Yarns.--XVI., Aniline Colours Suitable for Yarn Printing.--XVII.,
Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn Printing.--Appendix.
=Press Opinions.=
"The book is worthy the attention of the trade."--_Worcester
Herald._
"The treatise is arranged with great care, and follows the processes
described in a manner at once clear and convincing."--_Glasgow
Record._
"A most useful manual dealing in an intelligible and interesting
manner with the colour printing of carpet yarns."--_Kidderminster
Times._
"An eminent expert himself, the author has evidently strained every
effort in order to make his work the standard guide of its
class."--_Leicester Post._
"The book, which is admirably printed and illustrated, should fulfil
the need of a practical guide in the colour printing of carpet
yarns.--_Nottingham Express._
"The subject is very exhaustively treated in all its branches....
The work, which is very well illustrated with designs, machines, and
wool fibres, will be a useful addition to our textile
literature."--_Northern Whig._
"It gives an account of its subject which is both valuable and
instructive in itself, and likely to be all the more welcome because
books dealing with textile fabrics usually have little or nothing to
say about this way of decorating them."--_Scotsman._
"The work shows a thorough grasp of the leading characteristics as
well as the minutiae of the industry, and gives a lucid description
of its chief departments.... As a text-book in technical schools
where this branch of industrial education is taught, the book is
valuable, or it may be perused with pleasure as well as profit by
any one having an interest in textile industries."--_Dundee
Courier._
"The book bears every mark of an extensive practical knowledge of
the subject in all its bearings, and supplies a real want in
technical literature. Chapters IX. and X., on the science of colour
mixing and colour matching respectively, are especially good, and
we do not remember to have seen the bearing of various kinds of
light, and of the changes from one kind of light to another on the
work of the colourist, so well treated elsewhere."--_Dyer and Calico
Printer._
"It is thoroughly practical, and contains much information which has
not hitherto appeared in book form. It is pleasing to note that the
practical part is not crowded out with purely 'practical recipes'. A
few typical examples are given, and the rest is left to the common
sense and judgment of the printer or works' chemist. Another
pleasing feature is the accounts given here and there of the
author's own researches on the subject. The work will be of interest
to printers of wool generally, and to those engaged in the dyeing of
this fibre."--_Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists._
* * * * *
=A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE BLEACHING OF LINEN AND COTTON YARN AND
FABRICS.= By L. TAILFER, Chemical and Mechanical Engineer. Translated
from the French by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH, Lecturer on Chemical
Technology, London. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
13s. 6d; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapter I. General Considerations on Bleaching. Chapter II. Steeping.
Chapter III. Washing: Its End and Importance--Roller Washing
Machines--Wash Wheel (Dash Wheel)--Stocks or Wash Mill--Squeezing.
Chapter IV. Lye Boiling--Lye Boiling with Milk of Lime--Lye Boiling with
Soda Lyes--Description of Lye Boiling Keirs--Operations of Lye
Boiling--Concentration of Lyes. Chapter V. Mather and Platt's
Keir--Description of the Keir--Saturation of the Fabrics--Alkali used in
Lye Boiling--Examples of Processes. Chapter VI. Soap--Action of Soap in
Bleaching--Quality and Quantity of Soaps to use in the Lye--Soap Lyes or
Scalds--Soap Scouring Stocks. Chapter VII. Bleaching on Grass or on the
Bleaching Green or Lawn. Chapter VIII. Chemicking--Remarks on Chlorides
and their Decolourising Action--Chemicking
Cisterns--Chemicking--Strengths, etc. Chapter IX. Sours--Properties of
the Acids--Effects Produced by Acids--Souring Cisterns. Chapter X.
Drying--Drying by Steam--Drying by Hot Air--Drying by Air. Chapter XI.
Damages to Fabrics in Bleaching--Yarn Mildew--Fermentation--Iron Rust
Spots--Spots from Contact with Wood--Spots incurred on the Bleaching
Green--Damages arising from the Machines. Chapter XII. Examples of
Methods used in Bleaching--Linen--Cotton. Chapter XIII. The Valuation of
Caustic and Carbonated Alkali (Soda) and General Information Regarding
these Bodies--Object of Alkalimetry--Titration of Carbonate of
Soda--Comparative Table of Different Degrees of Alkalimetrical
Strength--Five Problems relative to Carbonate of Soda --Caustic Soda,
its Properties and Uses--Mixtures of Carbonated and Caustic Alkali--Note
on a Process of Manufacturing Caustic Soda and Mixtures of Caustic and
Carbonated Alkali (soda). Chapter XIV. Chlorometry--Titration--Wagner's
Chlorometric Method--Preparation of Standard Solutions--Apparatus for
Chlorine Valuation--Alkali in Excess in Decolourising Chlorides. Chapter
XV. Chlorine and Decolourising Chlorides--Synopsis--Chlorine--Chloride
of Lime--Hypochlorite of Soda--Brochoki's Chlorozone--Various
Decolourising Hypochlorites--Comparison of Chloride of Lime and
Hypochlorite of Soda. Chapter XVI. Water--Qualities of
Water--Hardness--Dervaux's Purifier--Testing the Purified
Water--Different Plant for Purification--Filters. Chapter XVII.
Bleaching of Yarn--Weight of Yarn--Lye
Boiling--Chemicking--Washing--Bleaching of Cotton Yarn. Chapter XVIII.
The Installation of a Bleach Works--Water Supply--Steam Boilers--Steam
Distribution Pipes--Engines--Keirs--Washing Machines--Stocks--Wash
Wheels--Chemicking and Souring Cisterns--Various--Buildings. Chapter
XIX. Addenda--Energy of Decolourising Chlorides and Bleaching by
Electricity and Ozone--Energy of Decolourising
Chlorides--Chlorides--Production of Chlorine and Hypochlorites by
Electrolysis--Lunge's Process for increasing the intensity of the
Bleaching Power of Chloride of Lime--Trilfer's Process for Removing the
Excess of Lime or Soda from Decolourising Chlorides--Bleaching by Ozone.
* * * * *
=THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR MIXING.= A Manual intended for the use of Dyers,
Calico Printers and Colour Chemists. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Forty-one
Illustrations, =Five Coloured Plates, and Four Plates showing Eleven
Dyed Specimens of Fabrics.= 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours
of Opaque and Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour.--II., Analysis of
Light; Spectrum; Homogeneous Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining a
Spectrum.--III., Examination of Solar Spectrum; The Spectroscope and Its
Construction; Colourists' Use of the Spectroscope.--IV., Colour by
Absorption; Solutions and Dyed Fabrics; Dichroic Coloured Fabrics in
Gaslight.--V., Colour Primaries of the Scientist _versus_ the Dyer and
Artist; Colour Mixing by Rotation and Lye Dyeing: Hue, Purity,
Brightness; Tints: Shades, Scales, Tones, Sad and Sombre Colours.--VI.,
Colour Mixing: Pure and Impure Greens, Orange and Violets; Large Variety
of Shades from few Colours; Consideration of the Practical Primaries:
Red, Yellow and Blue.--VII., Secondary Colours; Nomenclature of Violet
and Purple Group; Tints and Shades of Violet; Changes in Artificial
Light.--VIII., Tertiary Shades; Broken Hues; Absorption Spectra of
Tertiary Shades.--Appendix: Four Plates with Dyed Specimens Illustrating
Text.--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"The work has evidently been prepared with great care, and, as far
as we can judge, should be very useful to the dyer and
colourist."--_Halifax Courier._
"The volume, which is clearly and popularly written, should prove
of the utmost service to all who are concerned with the practical
use of colours, whether as dyers or painters."--_Scotsman._
"To the practical colourist, and also to technical students, Mr.
Paterson's new work will be very welcome. We are often asked to
recommend books on different subjects, and have no hesitation in
advising the purchase of the present volume by dyers and calico
printers, as containing a mass of most useful information at a
nominal price."--_Irish Textile Journal._
"Mr. Paterson's work not only clearly deals with the theory of
colour, but supplies lucid directions for the practical application
of the theory. His work will be found exceedingly helpful, not only
to the practical colourist, but also to students in our textile
colleges, by forming a useful complement to their class lectures.
There are several exquisitely coloured plates and a large number of
other illustrations of theory and practice in colour blending, and
also a series of plates with specimens of dyed fabrics attached, in
explication of the author's views."--_Wakefield Express._
"Mr. Paterson has little to say upon the experimental aspect or on
its æsthetics, but much upon the theory of colour, especially as it
bears upon the question--an all-important one to dyers, calico
printers and artists, who have to produce such a variety of shades
and tints--of the admixture of one colour upon another.... The
author is a dyer, and in his concluding chapters keeps well before
him the special wants and requirements of dyers. He writes
pleasantly and lucidly, and there is no difficulty in following
him, although here and there a lapse into ambiguousness occurs. The
book is well printed, generously supplied with coloured plates,
very nicely if not brightly got up; and the dyed patterns at the
end enhance the value of the book to the dyer."--_Textile Mercury._
"For some time the proprietors of _The Oil and Colourman's Journal_
have been engaged in the publication of a series of practical
handbooks intended for the use of those interested in certain
branches of technology, and the present volume is the latest
addition to their list. The feature which the works have in
common--and it is an all-important one in treatises of this
sort--is their eminently practical character. The primary aim of
the publishers is to provide scientific text-books which will be
helpful to those who are either actively engaged in the practice of
the arts in question, or who are studying with that immediate end
in view.... Mr. Paterson speaks with that assured knowledge of an
expert, and in the present volume, as in that which he has already
contributed to the same series, he sets forth the true foundation
of the art of colouring in a manner at once comprehensive and
judicious.... For dyers, calico printers and colourists in general,
whose desire it is to work with accuracy in their respective
branches, the treatise will prove an invaluable guide-book,
provided the principles and methods it describes are studied with
intelligence and care. To this end, every encouragement has been
given that well-chosen examples, carefully executed plates and
diagrams, and an exhaustive index can supply."--_Glasgow Herald._
* * * * *
=COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES.= A Manual intended for the use of Students
of Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and Textile Printing. By DAVID PATERSON,
F.C.S. Coloured Frontispiece. Twenty-nine Illustrations and Fourteen
Specimens of Dyed Fabrics Illustrating Text. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. 1901.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye--Perception of
Colour--Primary and Complementary Colour Sensations.--II., Daylight for
Colour Matching--Selection of a Good Pure Light--Diffused Daylight,
Direct Sunlight, Blue Skylight, Variability of Daylight, etc.,
etc.--III., Matching of Hues--Purity and Luminosity of Colours--Matching
Bright Hues --Aid of Tinted Films--Matching Difficulties Arising from
Contrast.--IV., Examination of Colours by Reflected and Transmitted
Lights--Effect of Lustre and Transparency of Fibres in Colour
Matching.--V., Matching of Colours on Velvet Pile--Optical Properties of
Dye-stuffs, Dichroism. Fluorescence.--VI., Use of Tinted Mediums--Orange
Film--Defects of the Eye--Yellowing of the Lens--Colour Blindness,
etc.--VII., Matching of Dyed Silk Trimmings and Linings and
Bindings--Its Difficulties--Behaviour of Shades in Artificial
Light--Colour Matching of Old Fabrics, etc.--VIII., Examination of Dyed
Colours under the Artificial Lights --Electric Arc, Magnesium and
Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene, etc.--Testing Qualities of
an Illuminant.--IX., Influence of the Absorption Spectrum in Changes of
Hue under the Artificial Lights--Study of the Causes of Abnormal
Modifications of Hue, etc.
* * * * *
=Reissue of THE ART OF DYEING WOOL, SILK AND COTTON.=
Translated from the French of M. HELLOT, M. MACQUER and M. LE PILEUR
D'APLIGNY. First Published in English in 1789. Six Plates. Demy 8vo. 446
pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
Part I., =The Art of Dyeing Wool and Woollen Cloth, Stuffs, Yarn,
Worsted, etc.:= Introduction.--Chapters I., Of the Vessels and
Utensils used in Dyeing.--II., Of the Fixed and Fugitive, commonly
called Great and Little Dye.--III., Of Colours in Grain. =Dyeing Wool:=
IV., Of Blue.--V., Of the Pastel Vat--Directions for the Proper
Management of the Vat--Indications when the Vat has Suffered by too much
or too little Lime, the two extremes which ought carefully to be
avoided--The Preparations of Indigo for the Pastel Vat.--VI., Of the
Woad Vat.--VII., Of the Indigo Vat.--VIII., Of the Cold Indigo Vat with
Urine--A Hot Indigo Vat with Urine--To Reheat a Urine Vat.--IX., A Cold
Indigo Vat without Urine. --X., Of the Method of Dyeing Blue.--XI., Of
Red.--XII., Of Scarlet in Grain, or Venetian Scarlet.--XIII., Of Fire
Scarlet.--XIV., Of Crimson.--XV., Of Gum Lac Scarlet.--XVI., Of the
_Coccus polonicus,_ a Colouring Insect.--XVII., Of Madder Red.--XVIII.,
Of Yellow.--XIX., Of Brown or Fawn Colour.--XX., Of Black.--XXI., Of the
Colours obtained from a Mixture of Blue and Red.--XXII., Of the Mixture
of Blue and Yellow.--XXIII., Of the Mixture of Blue and Fawn
Colour.--XXIV., Of the Mixture of Blue and Black.--XXV., Of the Mixture
of Red and Yellow.--XXVI., Of the Mixture of Red and Fawn.--XXVII., Of
the Mixture of Red and Black.--XXVIII., Of the Mixture of Yellow and
Fawn Colours.--XXIX., Of the Mixture of Yellow and Black.--XXX., Of the
Mixture of Fawn Colour and Black.--XXXI., Of the Principal Mixtures of
the Primitive Colours by Three and Three.--XXXII., The Method of
Blending Wool of Different Colours for mixed Cloth or Stuffs.--XXXIII.,
The Method of Preparing Felts for Trial.--XXXIV., The Method of Dyeing
Woollens False Colours.--XXXV., Of Flock or Goats' Hair.--XXXVI., Of
Archil, and the Method of Using It.--XXXVII., Of Logwood.--XXXVIII., Of
Brazil Wood.--XXXIX., Of Fustic--XL., Roucou.--XLI., Of French Berries.
--XLII., Of Turmeric.--XLIII., Instructions for the Proof Liquor for
Wool and Woollen Stuffs.
Part II., =The Art of Dyeing Silk:= Ungumming and Boiling for
White.--For Boiling of Silks Intended to be Dyed.--Observations on
Ungumming and Boiling.--Of White.--Of Whitening.--Sulphuring.
--Observations on Whitening and Sulphuring.--Of Aluming.--Remarks on
Aluming.--Of Blue.--Remarks on the Blue of Indigo.--Of Yellow.--Remarks
on Yellow.--Aurora, Orange, Mordore, Gold Colour and Chamois.--Red and
Crimson.--Remarks on Crimson.--Of False Crimson or the Red of
Brazil.--Remarks on the Red, or Crimson of Brazil Wood.--Of Scarlet,
Orange, Red and Cherry Colour.--Preparation of the Carthamus or Bastard
Saffron.--Remarks on the Dye of Carthamus or Bastard Saffron.--Of the
False Poppy or Fire Colour Produced with Brazil Wood.--False Rose
Colour.--Of Green. --Remarks.--Of Olives.--Remarks.--Of Violet.--Of Fine
Violet, or Violet in Grain.--Of False or Common Violets or Lilac.--Of
the Violet of Logwood.--Remarks.--Violet of Logwood and
Verdigris.--Violets of Brazil and Logwood.--Remarks.--Violets from
Brazil Wood and Archil. --Of Purple, Gillyflower, and of Fine Cochineal
or Purple.--Of False Purple.--Of Maroons, Cinnamons and White
Lees.--Remarks.--Of Nut Greys. Thorn Greys, Black and Iron Greys and
others of the same Species.--Of Black.--Softening of Black.--Black in
the Raw.--Remarks on Black.--Particular Process Communicated by M.
Hellot.--Genoa Crimson, a Process Proved in May, 1743.--Violet Crimson
of Italy.--Half Violet.--Genoa Black for Velvets.
Part III., =The Art of Dyeing Cotton and Linen Thread, together with the
Method of Stamping Silks, Cottons, etc.:= Of Dyeing in General.--Inquiry
concerning Wool, Silk, Cotton and Flax.--Of Wool.--Of Silk.--Of
Cotton.--Of Flax.--Conclusion from the Examination of Substances
Commonly Dyed.--Of Bleaching.--Preparation for Stuffs to be
Dyed.--Astringents.--Theory of Dyeing Stuffs Prepared with Alum.--Of
Colouring Substances.--Of Cochineal and Colouring Insects.--Of
Madder.--Of Vegetables Furnishing a Yellow Dye.--Of the Colouring Drugs
Used in Dyeing without Astringents.--Of Indigo.--Of Substances Used in
Dyeing Fawn and Root Colour.--Of Carthamus, Roucou, etc.--Of Black. =Of
Dyeing of Cotton Thread=: Of Cleansing.--Of the Colours Employed for the
Dyeing of Cotton Thread.--Of Blue.--Of Red.--Adrianople
Red.--Observations on this Dye.--Of Yellow.--Of Green.--Of Violet.--Of
Red Cinnamon.--Of Black.--Black for Linen and Cotton Thread by a
Combination of Colours.--Of Grey.--Of More Durable Greys.--Of Musk
Colour.--Olive and Duck Greens.--Of Browns, Maroons, Coffee Colours,
etc.--Of Silk Stuffs Dyed of Several Colours.--The Manner of Stamping
Silk, etc., in Europe.--Of a Linen with a Blue Ground and White
Pattern.--Of Saxon Blue.--Observations on this Dye.--=Indexes.=
* * * * *
=THE DYEING OF COTTON FABRICS=: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and
Student. By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and Chemist. 272 pp.
Forty-four Illustrations of Bleaching and Dyeing Machinery. Demy 8vo.
1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.: Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Structure and Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre.--II., Scouring
and Bleaching of Cotton.--III., Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing
Manipulations.--IV., Principals and Practice of Cotton Dyeing--1, Direct
Dyeing; 2, Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Metallic Salts; 3,
Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Developers; 4, Direct Dyeing
followed by Fixation with Couplers; 5, Dyeing on Tannic Mordant; 6,
Dyeing on Metallic Mordant; 7, Production of Colour Direct upon Cotton
Fibres; 8, Dyeing Cotton by Impregnation with Dye-stuff Solution.--V.,
Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton and Wool) Fabrics.--VI., Dyeing Half Silk
(Cotton-Silk, Satin) Fabrics.--VII., Operations following
Dyeing--Washing, Soaping, Drying.--VIII., Testing of the Colour of Dyed
Fabrics.--IX., Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing.--Index.
The book contains numerous recipes for the production on Cotton Fabrics
of all kinds of a great range of colours, thus making it of great
service in the Dye-house, while to the Student it is of value in that the
scientific principles which underlie the operations of dyeing are
clearly laid down.
* * * * *
=COTTON SPINNING= (First Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY, Spinning Master,
Bolton Technical School. 160 pp. 84 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901.
Price 3s.; Abroad, 3s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Syllabus and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute.--Chapters I., Cultivation, Classification, Ginning, Baling
and Mixing of the Raw Cotton.--II., Bale-Breakers, Mixing Lattices and
Hopper Feeders--III., Opening and Scutching.--IV., Carding.--Index to
Illustrations.--General Index.
* * * * *
=COTTON SPINNING= (Intermediate, or Second Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY.
180 pp. 70 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and British
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Syllabuses and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute.--Chapters I., The Combing Process.--II., The Drawing
Frame.--III., Bobbin and Fly Frames.--IV., Mule Spinning.--V., Ring
Spinning.--Index to Illustrations.--General Index.
* * * * *
=COTTON SPINNING= (Honours, or Third Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY. 216 pp.
74 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and British
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Syllabuses and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute.--Chapters I., Cotton.--II., The Practical Manipulation of
Cotton Spinning Machinery.--III., Doubling and Winding.--IV.,
Reeling.--V., Warping.--VI., Production and Costs.--VII., Main
Driving.--VIII., Arrangement of Machinery and Mill Planning.--IX., Waste
and Waste Spinning.--Index to Illustrations.--General Index.
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=Books for Mining Engineers and Steam Users.=
* * * * *
=RECOVERY WORK AFTER PIT FIRES.= A Description of the Principal Methods
Pursued, especially in Fiery Mines, and of the Various Appliances
Employed, such as Respiratory and Rescue Apparatus, Dams, etc. By ROBERT
LAMPRECHT, Mining Engineer and Manager. Translated from the German.
Illustrated by Six large Plates, containing Seventy-six Illustrations.
175 pp., demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Preface.--=I., Causes of Pit Fires:= 1, Fires Resulting from the
Spontaneous Ignition of Coal; 2, Fires Caused by Burning Timber; 3,
Fires Caused by Fire-damp Explosions.--=II., Preventive Regulations:= 1,
The Outbreak and Rapid Extension of a Shaft Fire can be most reliably
prevented by Employing little or no Combustible Material in the
Construction of the Shaft; 2, Precautions for Rapidly Localising an
Outbreak of Fire in the Shaft; 3, Precautions to be Adopted in case
those under 1 and 2 Fail or Prove Inefficient Precautions against
Spontaneous Ignition of Coal. Precautions for Preventing Explosions of
Fire-damp and Coal Dust. Employment of Electricity in Mining,
particularly in Fiery Pits. Experiments on the Ignition of Fire-damp
Mixtures and Clouds of Coal Dust by Electricity.--=III., Indications of
an Existing-or Incipient Fire.--IV., Appliances for Working in
Irrespirable Gases:= 1, Respiratory Apparatus; 2, Apparatus with Air
Supply Pipes, (_a_) The Bremen Smoke Helmet, (_b_) The Müller Smoke
Helmet, (_c_) The Stolz Rescue Mask; 3, Reservoir Apparatus: 4, Oxygen
Apparatus. The Schwann Respiratory Apparatus. The Fleuss Respiratory
Apparatus. The Improved Walcher-Gärtner Pneumatophor, (_a_) The Single
Bottle Apparatus, Instructions for using the Pneumatophor, Taking to
Pieces and Resetting the Apparatus ready for Use; (_b_) Two Bottle
Apparatus (Shamrock Type). The Neupert Rescue Apparatus (The Mayer-Pilar
System).--=V. Extinguishing-Pit Fires:= (_a_)Chemical Means: (_b_)
Extinction with Water. Dragging down the Burning Masses and Packing with
Clay: (_c_) Insulating the Seat of the Fire by Dams. Dam Building. Dam
Work in the Fiery Pits of Southern Hungary: (_a_) Cross-dams of Clay;
(_b_) Masonry Dams, Gallery Linings. Wagner's Portable Safety Dam.
Analyses of Fire Gases. Isolating the Seat of a Fire with Dams: Working
in Irrespirable Gases ("Gas-diving"): 1, Air-Lock Work (Horizontal
Advance) on the Mayer System as Pursued at Karwin in 1894; 2, Air-Lock
Work (Horizontal Advance) by the Mauerhofer Modified System. Vertical
Advance. Mayer System. Complete Isolation of the Pit. Flooding a Burning
Section isolated by means of Dams. Wooden Dams: (_a_) Upright Balk Dams;
(_b_) Horizontal Balk Dams; (c) Wedge Dams, Masonry Dams. Examples of
Cylindrical and Dome-shaped Dams. Dam Doors: Flooding the Whole
Pit.--=VI., Rescue Stations:= (_a_) Stations above Ground; (_b_)
Underground Rescue Stations.--=VII., Spontaneous Ignition of Coal in
Bulk.=--Index.
=Illustrations.=
Sheet I., =Respiratory and Rescue Appliances--Precautions against Fire.=
Figs. 1, Smoke Helmet; 2, Muller's Smoke Helmet; 3, Low-pressure
Respiration Apparatus; 4, High-pressure Respiration Apparatus; 5, The
Stolz Mask for Rescue Work: 6, Precautions against Fire.--Sheet II.,
=Respiratory and Rescue Apparatus.= Figs. 1, Recovery Work with Muller's
Smoke Helmet after a Fire: 2-8, The Fleuss Respiration Apparatus: 9, The
Walcher-Gärtner Pneumatophor: 10-12, Pneumatophor (Shamrock
Type).--Sheet III., =Respiratory and Rescue Apparatus--Stretchers.=
Figs. 1-8, Rescue Apparatus manufactured by O. Neupert's Successor
(Mayer-Pilar System); 1, Front View; 2, Section through Bag and Mask; 3,
Rear View: 4, Apparatus and Mask laid out Flat (view from above); 5,
Apparatus and Mask laid out Flat (view from below): 6, Locking Device
for Closing Bag; 7, Apparatus Complete, Mounted for Rescue Work; 8,
Improved Valve in the Respiration Tubes; 9-12, =Stretchers.= Fig. 9,
Stretcher Covered with Brown Canvas: 10, Stretcher Covered with Brown
Canvas, fitted with Adjustable Head-rest: 11, Folding Stretcher Covered
with Brown Canvas; 12, Rupprecht's Stretcher Covered with Brown Canvas;
13, Dr. Rühlmann's Stretcher.--Sheet IV., =Dams.= Figs. 1-7, R. Wagners
Portable Safety Dam.--Sheet V., =Signalling Appliances --Dam
Construction--Cable Laying.= Figs. 1-3, Signalling Appliances: 1, Small
Induction Apparatus for Pit Work; 2, Bell Signal for Pit Work; 3, Pit
Telephone; 4-18, =Dam Construction;= 4, 5, Upright Timber Dam; 6, 7,
Timber Dam with Wooden Door; 8, 9, Dome-shaped Dams; 10,11, Dome-shaped
Dam with Iron Door; 12,13, The Wenker and Berninghaus Locking Device for
Dam Doors; 14-17, Dam Construction: 18, Damming a Gallery Lined with
Iron: 19, Support for Cable.--Sheet VI., =Working with Diving Gear in
Irrespirable Gases--Gallery Work.= Figs. 1-4, Air-Lock Work (Mayer
System); 5-7. Air-Lock (Mauerhofer's Modification of the Mayer System);
8-11, Construction of Dams at the Pluto Shaft.--Sheet VII., =Working
with Diving Gear in Irrespirable Gases (Mayer System)--Appliances in the
Shaft.= Figs. 1, 2, Sections of Shaft and Air Apparatus; 3, Salzmann
Reducing Valve for Reserve Air Supply; 4,5, L. v. Bremen's Respiration
Apparatus with Karwin Reserve Appliance: 6, Cross Section of the
Franziska Shaft; 7, Method of Supplying Air to Main Pipe and Winding
same on Drum; 8, Clamp.
=Press Opinions.=
"A work of this extremely valuable character deserves to be made
widely known amongst colliery managers and mining engineers at home
and abroad."--_Coal and Iron._
"This book is, in a manner, unique. The literature of mining
accidents is fairly extensive, but it consists largely of
departmental Blue Books."--_Sheffield Daily Telegraph._
"A concise and lucid description of the principal methods pursued,
especially in fiery mines, and of the various appliances employed,
such as respiratory and rescue apparatus, dams, etc."--_Staffs
Advertiser._
"The prevention of spontaneous combustion in collieries and the
extinction of underground fires are duties that fall heavily on many
colliery managers. They should, therefore, welcome this translation
of Mr. Lamprecht's German treatise."--_Ironmonger._
"The book under notice supplies the needed full description,
drawings, and mode of using these new appliances in actual fires,
and should be studied by every colliery manager, seeing that even
our best managed collieries have not been free from fires, more or
less disastrous to life and property.--_Colliery Manager._
* * * * *
=THE PREVENTION OF SMOKE.= Combined with the Economical Combustion of
Fuel. By W.C. POPPLEWELL, M.Sc, A.M.Inst., C.E., Consulting Engineer. 46
Illustrations. 190 pp. 1901. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Introductory.--Chapters I., Fuel and Combustion.--II., Hand Firing in
Boiler Furnaces.--III., Stoking by Mechanical Means.--IV., Powdered
Fuel.--V., Gaseous Fuel.--VI., Efficiency and Smoke Tests of
Boilers.--VII., Some Standard Smoke Trials.--VIII., The Legal Aspect of
the Smoke Question.--IX., The Best Means to be adopted for the
Prevention of Smoke.--Index.
* * * * *
=GAS AND COAL DUST FIRING.= A Critical Review of the Various Appliances
Patented in Germany for this purpose since 1885. By ALBERT PÜTSCH. 130
pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Translated from the German. With 103 Illustrations.
Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
=Contents.=
Generators--Generators Employing Steam--Stirring and Feed Regulating
Appliances--Direct Generators--Burners--Regenerators and
Recuperators--Glass Smelting Furnaces--Metallurgical Furnaces--Pottery
Furnace--Coal Dust Firing.--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"The work is worthy of perusal by all consumers of fuel. It is
exceedingly well printed and illustrated."--_Chemical Trade
Journal._
"The book will appeal with force to the manufacturer as well as to
the technical student, whilst it is also of far more than average
interest to the general reader."--_Halifax Guardian._
"The importance that gas and coal dust firing have attained of
recent years, and especially the great interest attaching of late to
the question of coal dust firing, makes the appearance of the
present volume most opportune."--_Iron and Coal Trades Review._
"The German author has long followed the development of various
systems of gas firing, and in the present treatise he discusses the
merits of appliances patented since 1885. His text and the numerous
illustrations indispensable to it will be found useful by all who
are engaged in practical work in the same field."--_North British
Daily Mail._
* * * * *
=Books on Plumbing, Decorating, Metal Work, etc., etc.=
* * * * *
=EXTERNAL PLUMBING WORK.= A Treatise on Lead Work for Roofs. By JOHN W.
HART, R.P.C. 180 Illustrations. 270 pp. Demy 8vo. 1896. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.=
Chapters I., Cast Sheet Lead.--II., Milled Sheet Lead.--III., Roof
Cesspools.--IV., Socket Pipes.--V., Drips.--VI., Gutters.--VII., Gutters
(continued).--VIII., Breaks.--IX., Circular Breaks.--X., Flats--XL,
Flats (continued).--XII., Rolls on Flats.--XIII., Roll Ends.--XIV., Roll
Intersections.--XV., Seam Rolls.--XVI., Seam Rolls (continued).--XVII.,
Tack Fixings.--XVIII., Step Flashings.--XIX., Step Flashings
(continued).--XX., Secret Gutters.--XXI., Soakers.--XXII., Hip and
Valley Soakers.--XXIII., Dormer Windows.--XXIV., Dormer Windows
(continued).--XXV., Dormer Tops.--XXVI., Internal Dormers.--XXVII.,
Skylights.--XXVIII., Hips and Ridging.--XXIX., Hips and Ridging
(continued).--XXX., Fixings for Hips and Ridging.--XXXI., Ornamental
Ridging.--XXXII., Ornamental Curb Rolls.--XXXIII., Curb Rolls.--XXXIV.,
Cornices.--XXXV., Towers and Finials.--XXXVI., Towers and Finials
(continued).--XXXVII.,Towers and Finials (continued).--XXXVIII.,
Domes.--XXXIX., Domes (continued).--XL., Ornamental Lead Work.--XLI.,
Rain Water Heads.--XLII., Rain Water Heads (continued).--XLIII., Rain
Water Heads (continued).
=Press Opinions.=
"This is an eminently practical and well-illustrated volume on the
management of external lead work."--_Birmingham Daily Post._
"It is thoroughly practical, containing many valuable hints, and
cannot fail to be of great benefit to those who have not had large
experience."--_Sanitary Journal._
"Works on sanitary plumbing are by no means rare, but treatises
dealing with external plumbing work are sufficiently scarce to
ensure for Mr. Hart's new publication a hearty reception."--_The
Ironmonger._
"With Mr. Harts treatise in his hands the young plumber need not be
afraid of tackling outside work. He would do well to study its pages
at leisure, so that he may be ready for it when called
upon."--_Ironmongery._
* * * * *
=HINTS TO PLUMBERS ON JOINT WIPING, PIPE BENDING AND LEAD BURNING.=
Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. By JOHN W. HART, R.P.C. 184
Illustrations. 313 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.= Introduction.--Chapters I., Pipe Bending.--II., Pipe Bending
(continued).--III., Pipe Bending (continued).--IV., Square Pipe
Bendings.--V., Half-circular Elbows.--VI., Curved Bends on Square
Pipe.--VII., Bossed Bends.--VIII., Curved Plinth Bends.--IX., Rain-water
Shoes on Square Pipe.--X., Curved and Angle Bends.--XL, Square Pipe
Fixings.--XII., Joint-wiping.--XIII., Substitutes for Wiped
Joints.--XIV., Preparing Wiped Joints.--XV., Joint Fixings.--XVI.,
Plumbing Irons.--XVII., Joint Fixings.--XVIII., Use of "Touch" in
Soldering.--XIX., Underhand Joints.--XX., Blown and Copper Bit
Joints.--XXL, Branch Joints.--XXII., Branch Joints (continued).--XXIII.,
Block Joints.--XXIV., Block Joints (continued).--XXV., Block
Fixings.--XXVI., Astragal Joints--Pipe Fixings.--XXVII., Large Branch
Joints.--XXVIII., Large Underhand Joints.--XXIX., Solders.--XXX.,
Autogenous Soldering or Lead Burning.--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"Rich in useful diagrams as well as in hints."--_Liverpool Mercury._
"The papers are eminently practical, and go much farther into the
mysteries they describe than the title 'Hints' properly
suggests."--_Scotsman._
"The articles are apparently written by a thoroughly practical man.
As a practical guide the book will doubtless be of much
service."--_Glasgow Herald._
"So far as the practical hints in this work are concerned, it will
be useful to apprentices and students in technical schools, as it
deals mainly with the most important or difficult branches of the
plumber's craft, _viz._, joint wiping, pipe bending and lead
burning.... 'Hints' are the most useful things to an apprentice, and
there are many in this work which are not to be found in some of the
text-books."--_English Mechanic._
22 PRYME STREET, HULL, _24th November_, 1894. "Gentlemen,--Your
books to hand for which accept my best thanks, also for circulars. I
myself got one of J.W. Hart's books on Plumbing from your traveller,
and having looked through the same I can safely recommend it as
being the best book I have seen. Mr. J.W. Hart treats exhaustively
upon soldering and pipe bending, which are two of the most essential
branches in the plumbing trade."
* * * * *
=THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF DIPPING, BURNISHING, LACQUERING AND
BRONZING BRASS WARE.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. 35 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price
2s.; Abroad, 2s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.= Chapters I., Cleansing and Dipping; Boiling up and
Cleansing: Dipping.--II., Scratch-brushing and Burnishing; Polishing;
Burnishing.--III., Lacquering; Tools; Lacquers.--IV., Bronzing; Black
Bronzing; Florentine Red Bronzing; Green Bronzing.--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"Mr. Brown is clearly a master of his craft, and has also the
immense advantage of being able to convey his instructions in a
manner at once clear and concise."--_Leicester Post._
"A thoroughly practical little treatise on the subject in all its
branches, and one which should be in the hands of every tradesman or
amateur who has lacquering to do."--_Irish Builder._
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=WORKSHOP WRINKLES= for Decorators, Painters, Paperhangers and Others.
By W.N. BROWN. Crown 8vo. 128 pp. 1901. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.
=Contents.= Parts I., Decorating.--II., Painting.--III.,
Paper-hanging.--IV., Miscellaneous. Arranged in alphabetical order.
* * * * *
=HOUSE DECORATING AND PAINTING.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. Eighty-eight
Illustrations. 150 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 3s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.= Chapters I., Tools and Appliances.--II., Colours and Their
Harmony.--III., Pigments and Media.--IV., Pigments and Media.--V.,
Pigments and Media.--VI., Pigments and Media.--VII., Preparation of
Work, etc.--VIII., Application of Ordinary Colour.--IX., Graining.--X.,
Graining.--XI., Graining.--XII., Gilding.--XIII., Writing and
Lettering.--XIV., Sign Painting.--XV., Internal Decoration.--Index.
=Press Opinion.= "The author is evidently very thoroughly at home in
regard to the technical subjects he has set himself to elucidate, from
the mechanical rather than the artistic point of view, although the
matter of correctness of taste is by no means ignored. Mr. Brown's style
is directness itself, and there is no tyro in the painting trade,
however mentally ungifted, who could fail to carry away a clearer grasp
of the details of the subject after going over the
performance."--_Building Industries._
* * * * *
=A HISTORY OF DECORATIVE ART.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. Thirty-nine
Illustrations. 96 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.
=Contents.= Chapters I., Primitive and Prehistoric Art.--II., Egyptian
Art.--III., Assyrian Art.--IV., The Art of Asia Minor.--V., Etruscan
Art.--VI., Greek Art.--VII., Roman Art.--VIII., Byzantine Art.--IX.,
Lombard or Romanesque Art.--X., Gothic Art.--XI., Renaissance
Art.--XII., The Victorian Period.--Index.
=Press Opinion.=
"In the course of a hundred pages with some forty illustrations Mr.
Brown gives a very interesting and comprehensive survey of the
progress and development of decorative art. It cannot, of course, be
pretended that in the limited space named the subject is treated
exhaustively and in full detail, but it is sufficiently complete to
satisfy any ordinary reader; indeed, for general purposes, it is,
perhaps, more acceptable than a more elaborate treatise."--_Midland
Counties Herald._
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=A HANDBOOK ON JAPANNING AND ENAMELLING FOR CYCLES, BEDSTEADS, TINWARE,
ETC.= By WILLIAM NORMAN BROWN. Price 2s. net. [_Ready._
=Contents.= A Few Words on Enamelling--Appliances and Apparatus--Japans
or Enamels--To Test Enamel for Lead--Japanning or Enamelling
Metals--Japanning Tin, such as Tea Trays, and similar Goods--Enamelling
Old Work--Enamel for Cast Iron--Enamel for Copper Cooking Utensils--The
Enamelling Stove--Enamelling Bedsteads, Frames and similar large
pieces--Paints and Varnishes for Metallic Surfaces--Varnishes for
Ironwork--Blacking for Iron--Processes for Tin
Plating--Galvanising--Metal Polishes--Colours for Polished Brass--A
Golden Varnish for Metal--Painting on Zinc--Carriage Varnish--Japanese
Varnish and its Application.--Index.
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=THE PRINCIPLES OF HOT WATER SUPPLY.= By JOHN W. HART, R.P.C. With 129
Illustrations. 1900. 177 pp., demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.= Chapters I., Water Circulation.--II., The Tank
System.--III., Pipes and Joints.--IV., The Cylinder System.--V., Boilers
for the Cylinder System.--VI., The Cylinder System.--VII., The Combined
Tank and Cylinder System.--VIII., Combined Independent and Kitchen
Boiler.--IX., Combined Cylinder and Tank System with Duplicate
Boilers.--X., Indirect Heating and Boiler Explosions.--XI., Pipe
Boilers.--XII., Safety Valves.--XIII., Safety Valves.--XIV., The
American System.--XV., Heating Water by Steam.--XVI., Steam Kettles and
Jets.--XVII., Heating Power of Steam.--XVIII., Covering for Hot Water
Pipes.--Index.
=Press Opinion.=
"If all plumbers were to read this book, and if they followed the
instructions given, there would, we are sure, be fewer accidents
from household boiler explosions, and many lives might be saved. No
doubt the majority of householders know or care little about the
subject, but any one who wishes to adopt the most up-to-date system
of supplying hot water throughout his house will be able to do so if
he reads Mr. Hart's book and follows the instruction given. It is a
work that all who have charge of domestic water supply should study.
It is a practical and profitable book."--_Wigar Observer._
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=Brewing and Botanical.=
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=HOPS IN THEIR BOTANICAL, AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL ASPECT, AND AS AN
ARTICLE OF COMMERCE.= By EMMANUEL GROSS, Professor at the Higher
Agricultural College, Tetschen-Liebwerd. Translated from the German.
Seventy-eight Illustrations. 1900. 340 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
=Contents.= PART I., HISTORY OF THE HOP. PART II., THE HOP PLANT.
Introductory.--The Roots.--The Stem and Leaves.--Inflorescence and
Flower: Inflorescence and Flower of the Male Hop: Inflorescence and
Flower of the Female Hop.--The Fruit and its Glandular Structure: The
Fruit and Seed.--Propagation and Selection of the Hop.--Varieties of the
Hop: (_a_) Red Hops; (_b_) Green Hops; (_c_) Pale Green
Hops.--Classification according to the Period of Ripening: 1. Early
August Hops; 2. Medium Early Hops; 3. Late Hops.--Injuries to Growth:
Malformations; Diseases Produced by Conditions of Soil and Climate: 1.
Leaves Turning Yellow, 2. Summer or Sun-brand, 3. Cones Dropping Off, 4.
Honey Dew, 5. Damage from Wind, Hail and Rain; Vegetable Enemies of the
Hop: Animal Enemies of the Hop.--Beneficial Insects on Hops.
=PART III., CULTIVATION.= The Requirements of the Hop in Respect of
Climate, Soil and Situation: Climate; Soil; Situation,--Selection of
Variety and Cuttings.--Planting a Hop Garden: Drainage; Preparing the
Ground; Marking-out for Planting; Planting; Cultivation and Cropping of
the Hop Garden in the First Year.--Work to be Performed Annually in the
Hop Garden: Working the Ground; Cutting; The Non-cutting System; The
Proper Performance of the Operation of Cutting: I. Method of Cutting:
Close Cutting, Ordinary Cutting, The Long Cut, The Topping Cut; II.
Proper Season for Cutting: Autumn Cutting, Spring Cutting: Manuring;
Training the Hop Plant: Poled Gardens, Frame Training; Principal Types
of Frames: Pruning, Cropping, Topping, and Leaf Stripping the Hop Plant;
Picking, Drying and Bagging.--Principal and Subsidiary Utilisation of
Hops and Hop Gardens.--Life of a Hop Garden; Subsequent Cropping.--Cost
of Production, Yield and Selling Prices. PART IV.--Preservation and
Storage.--Physical and Chemical Structure of the Hop Cone.--Judging the
Value of Hops. PART V.--Statistics of Production.--The Hop
Trade.--Index.
=Press Opinions.=
"The subject is dealt with fully in every little detail;
consequently, even the veriest tyro can take away some useful
information from its pages."--_Irish Farming World._
"Farmers are but little given to reading; but nowadays brewers have
to study their trade and keep abreast of its every aspect, and as
far as regards our trade, to them this book especially appeals, and
will be especially useful."--_Licensed Victuallers' Gazette._
"Like an oasis in the desert comes a volume upon the above subject,
by the Professor at the Higher Agricultural College,
Tetschen-Liebwerd, Germany, who has been fortunate enough to obtain
an excellent translator from the German in the person of Mr. Charles
Salter. The paucity of works upon the history and cultivation of
hops is surprising considering the scope it gives for an interesting
and useful work."--_Hereford Times._
"We can safely say that this book deals more comprehensively and
thoroughly with the subject of hops than any work previously
published in this country.... No one interested in the hop industry
can fail to extract a large amount of information from Professor
Gross's pages, which, although primarily intended for Continental
readers, yet bear very closely on what may be termed the
cosmopolitan aspects of the science of hop production."--_South
Eastern Gazette._
"This is, in our opinion, the most scholarly and exhaustive treatise
on the subject of hops, their culture and preservation, etc., that
has been published, and to the hop grower especially will its
information and recommendations prove valuable. Brewers, too, will
find the chapter devoted to 'Judging the Value of Hops' full of
useful hints, while the whole scope and tenor of the book bear
testimony to the studious and careful manner in which its contents
have been elaborated."--_Brewers' Journal._
"Considering the extent to which this country draws its hop supplies
from abroad, this translation of Professor Gross's volume will prove
an interesting and instructive addition to the library of any brewer
or brewers' chemist, the more so as the work of translation has been
admirably carried out in simple and vigorous English.... The volume
is one of a valuable series of special technical works for trades
and professions the publishers are issuing, and is the first so far
dealing with the brewing industry."--_Burton Mail._
"A work upon the above subject must be welcomed if for no other
reason than the dearth of books dealing with so interesting a theme,
but fortunately apart from this the book will afford excellent
reading to all interested in hops and their culture. Professor Gross
takes one over the whole field, by commencing with the earliest
history of the plant--so far back as the days of ancient Greece--and
from both practical, theoretical and scientific standpoints, deals
with the cultivation, classification and formation of the hop.... In
speaking of the production of new varieties sound information is
given, and should be of value to those who are always in search of
improvements."--_Hereford Journal._
"This work is, without doubt, the most thorough and extensive
compilation on hops ever yet offered to the public, and for this
reason should be warmly welcomed and appreciated by men interested
in the subject. Although primarily written for those engaged in the
industry abroad, and mainly Continental in theory and practice, it
nevertheless appeals to those connected with the hop growing and
brewing business in England, not only by way of a comparison, but
also as an instruction. The volume is at once practical and
scientific, is well got up, and teems with illustrations and
statistics. In a word, it is a book that should find its way into
the hands of all who are occupied in hop production and distribution
at home; and it also contains valuable information and suggestions
for the brewers themselves."--_Brewers' Guardian._
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=Public Libraries.=
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=BRITISH LIBRARY YEAR BOOK, 1900-1901.= A Record of Library Progress and
Work. 54 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 345 pp. 1900. Edited by THOMAS
GREENWOOD. Price 3s.; abroad, 3s. 6d.; strictly net.
=Contents.= Notes for Library Committees. Contributed Articles: The
Library Rate. Some Points in Library Planning--Mr. Burgoyne. Library
Classification--Mr. Jast. Developments in Library Cataloguing--Mr.
Quinn. Children and Public Libraries--Mr. Ballinger. Fire Prevention and
Insurance--Mr. Davis. The Educational Work of the Library
Association--Mr. Roberts. The Library Assistants' Association--Mr.
Chambers. British Municipal Libraries established under the various
Public Libraries or Special Acts, and those supported out of Municipal
Funds giving particulars of Establishment, Organisation, Staff, Methods
and Librarians. Table showing the Rate, Income, Work and Hours of the
Rate-supported Libraries. Statistical Abstracts. British non-Municipal
Libraries, Endowed, Collegiate, Proprietary and others, showing date of
Establishment, number of Volumes, Particulars of Administration, and
Librarians. Library Associations and Kindred Societies.
=Press Opinions.=
"This is a handbook which tells the reader everything about public
libraries, great and small, in the United Kingdom.... The book is
decidedly one of the best arranged volumes ever published, and there
is no doubt that the editor has been at great pains to obtain the
latest and most accurate information from all places. County,
district and parish councils, ministers of religion, and
schoolmasters everywhere should make themselves acquainted with its
contents. Its perusal cannot fail to serve the ends of the library
movement. The illustrations, of which there is a large number, are
very good."--_Western (Cardiff) Mail._
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_WORKS IN PREPARATION._
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=PRINCIPLES OF SIDEROLOGY= (The Science of Iron). Translated from the
German of HANKS FREIHERR v. ZÜPTNER.
=STAINED GLASS= (Ancient and Modern) and =FRET LEAD GLAZING.= By E.R.
SUFFLING.
=TREATISE ON CLOTH FINISHING.= By ROBERT BEAUMONT, of Yorkshire College,
Leeds.
=INDIA-RUBBER; GUTTA PERCHA.=
=EVAPORATION, CONDENSATION AND COOLING.= Calculations of Dimensions of
Apparatus. By E. HAUSBRAND. Tables. For Chemists, Chemical and
Mechanical Engineers.
=THE CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTILE FIBRES.= Spinning, Washing,
Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing and Finishing. By Dr. G. von GEORGIEVICS.
[_In the Press._
=WEAVING MACHINERY.= Three Vols. By HARRY NISBET.
=COLOUR TERMS: THEIR PROPER USE AND MEANING.= By DAVID PATERSON.
=LEAD AND ITS COMPOUNDS.= By THOS. LAMBERT.
=COTTON COMBERS AND THE COMBING PROCESS.= By THOS. THORNLEY.
[_In the Press._
=TIMBER.= Its Physical and Chemical Properties, Description,
Distribution throughout the World, Forests, Preservation of Timber, and
Applications. From the French of Paul Charpentier. 179 Illustrations.
About 500 pp.
=USE OF WATER IN THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS.= Composition--Influences--Residual
Water--Purification--Analysis. From the French of H. de la Coux. 135
Illustrations. About 500 pp.
=DYERS' MATERIALS:= An Introduction to the Examination, Evaluation and
Application of the Most Important Substances Used in Dyeing, Printing,
Bleaching and Finishing. By PAUL HEERMANN, Ph.D. Translated by ARTHUR C.
WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). [_In the Press._
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=HANDY GUIDES TO THE CHOICE OF BOOKS.=
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Vol. I. =PROSE FICTION.=
Vol. II. =TECHNICAL, TRADE AND COMMERCIAL BOOKS.=
_Others to follow._ [_In Preparation._
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_The Publishers will advise when any of the above books are ready to
firms sending their addresses._
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