distance, curvature and grades.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
* * * * *
“A more accurate and descriptive title for Professor Webb’s book would
have been ‘The technical problems of railroad construction and
operation.’” Emory R. Johnson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 619. N. ’07. 280w.
“The work as a whole is an excellent treatment of a subject the
complete understanding of which is essential to those upon whom rests
the responsibility for the economic design and improvement of
railways. A vast amount of matter is epitomized and systematized into
convenient compass, which considering the authority of its source,
should commend it alike to the student and the busy contractor.”
Walter W. Colpitts.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 440. Ap. 18, ’07. 2020w.
“The condensed character of Mr. Webb’s book would hardly lead to its
substitution for the more extended treatment given by Wellington. In
spite of the author’s modest assertion that the lawyer or legislator
will find in the book little or nothing of use to him, and the
implication that the professor of social economics will pass it by,
this little manual is well worth a careful reading by all these
classes.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 155. Mr. ’07. 300w.
=Webster, Jean.= Jerry Junior. †$1.50. Century.
7–13435.
The game of love is played according to new rules in this story of
Jerry Junior, the young American who finds himself stranded at an out
of the way Italian watering place, awaiting the coming of a delayed
sister and aunt. He meets an American girl who lives at a near by
villa by inauspiciously falling off a stone wall at her feet and, in
order to know her better impersonates an Italian donkey-driver with
earrings and a red sash. The girl is not deceived and by the time the
donkey driver has advanced in her good graces far enough to hold her
hand she succeeds in making him jealous both of the stranger who fell
off the wall and of Jerry Junior, both being himself, but he doesn’t
know that she knows. It is all very amusing and pretty.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07. ✠
“A book as airy-light, as iridescent, as inconsequential as a
soap-bubble.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 410w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 163. Jl. 18, ’07. 90w.
“Much of the charm of the tale is due to its locale. The descriptions
are unforced and Miss Webster has the tact not to insist on her scenic
environment, not to force the moonlight and the snowy summits on her
readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 350w.
“The book like the author’s other works, is a ‘delightful bit of
nonsense.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 70w.
=Weed, Walter Harvey.= Copper mines of the world. $4. Hill pub. co.
7–25687.
“The work does not attempt to treat various properties described from
the viewpoint of their financial merit; nor does it lead the reader
into the deeper technicalities of physical chemistry or metallurgy. On
the contrary it is, so to speak, a bird’s-eye view of the copper
world, so presented as to answer such questions as: (1) Where are the
deposits found? (2) What is the nature of the ore and its amenability
to treatment? (3) How much of it is there? (4) What is the geologic
occurrence? (5) What is the bearing of the observed and recorded facts
on the probability of richness and continuity in depth? (6) What is
the genesis of the deposit, and its bearings on the present and
probable future production?”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Will fill an important niche in the libraries of mining men,
investors, and students, and of those as well who are interested in
the metal from the industrial point of view only. From the geological
standpoint, the author has handled the subject with an undeniable
mastery and comprehensiveness. A possible minor criticism is that, in