Tlie- Timber Imporler's, Tmhe)- Merdtani's, and Builder s Standard Guide. 



By EiCHARD E. Granby. Second Editiou. Lockwood and Co., 



London. 

 This handy volume forms one of Weale's Rudimentary Series of scientific 

 works, and comprises in a concise and practical form valuable information 

 to the timber importer and merchant on the analysis of deal standards, 

 with comparative values and net landed cost of Baltic and Xorth American 

 timber ; a complete exposition of the foreign squared timber trade, lath- 

 wood, staves, &c. ; with various tables showing the solid, Hneal, and 

 superficial quantities ; particulars of freights, insurance, duties, and 

 expenses of importation ; and the cost in dollars, currency, and sterling. 

 To the builder it gives copious and useful information, with tables setting 

 forth the net cost and workmanship per piece, square, lineal, or superficial 

 measure, of all builders' and artificers' work. 



The CompJefe Measurer. By Richard Hortox. Third Edition. 

 Lockwood and Co., London. 

 This valuable work has been compiled with a view to afford our legisla- 

 tors and the public an opportunity of introducing for general use, correct and 

 convenient Tables and systems for measuring timber, stone, &c., in lieu of 

 those now extant, which are in many instances productive of serious loss to 

 the seller, whilst in other cases giving results causing heavy loss to the 

 purchaser. 



Urged by a strong impulse to combat the obstacles opposed to the intro- 

 duction of proper systems and tables, and convinced that at the present 

 day the minds of men of business are expanding with the times, and more 

 inclined than formerly to changes which are consistent with truth and 

 generally beneficial, the author has set to work in earnest and produced 

 a handy book tliat will be highly prized by all foresters, timber merchants, 

 builders, and others, whose duties require exact measurements of timber, 

 stone, or artificers' work ; and we hope the system of measurement advo- 

 cated in this book will soon be adopted for general use throughout the 

 country, and entirely supersede the present faulty and haphazard system. 



In carrying out his system, the author has judiciously follo^ved 

 to some extent the form of tables published by Hoppus, as they are those 



