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concludes with a chapter entitled " Statics," the subjects dealt with — including the 

 theory of the suspension-bridge chain and the transmission of power by belts — 

 being not altogether consistent with the general aim of the book or with the title 

 of the chapter in which they are found ; nevertheless this chapter will be perused 

 with profit by engineering students. It will be evident that this work is of much 

 more than academic interest ; as problems of great practical importance are dealt 

 with, it should appeal both to the mathematician and to the man of affairs ; 

 in addition, the large number of well-chosen examples in the text and at the end 

 of each chapter will be found useful by teachers and students. The book fills a 

 gap that has long existed between the many elementary works on dynamics and 

 the classical work of Routh ; it should find a place not only among the treasured 

 few volumes of the student but also among the books of reference of the practising 

 engineer. 



F. C. L. 



