Reviews of Books. 209 



Ylie Timber Mcrrhanfs and Biuhhr''.-^ Compa)i'on. Third Edition. 

 Cj AViLLUM DowsixG. Loudou : Crosby Lockwood and Co. 

 An exceedingly well-arranged, clear, and concise manual of tables for 

 the nse of all who buy or sell timber, containing copious tables of the reduced 

 weight and measurement of deals and battens of all sizes, from one to a thou- 

 sand pieces, and the relative price each size bears per lineal foot to any given 

 price per Petersburg standard hundred ; the price per cubic foot of square 

 timber to any given price per load of fifty feet, besides a variety of other 

 information, which will be found most useful to the forester, timber 

 merchant, and builder, in saving much time in making calculations of 

 the measurement, weight, and price of timber. The size, weight, and cost 

 of any given piece of timber can be found in an instant, with perfect accu- 

 racy ; all who have to do with wood ought to possess this valuable ready 

 reckoner. 



Along with numerous other magazines, periodicals, &c., which have 

 reached us lately, we may mention the Farmer's Magazine^ Rogerson and 

 luxford, London. A monthly journal full of valuable information to the 

 agriculturist and land proprietor, in which are duly recorded all items of 

 importance about what is going at home and abroad likely to be of interest to 

 the farmer and others who have to deal with or manage laud and stock. 

 The American Ft<r»?('r, Baltimore, U.S., a journal similar to the above, but 

 specially suited to the wants of farmers in the United States, and containing 

 a rich store of information, which is no doubt taken full advantage of and 

 highly appreciated by those for whose benefit it is intended. The Gardener's 

 MontJdi/ and Horticulturist, Philadelphia, U.S., one of the best of the 

 American horticultural magazines, full to overflowing of seasonable hints 

 upon all gardening matters, and also devoting a few pages to matters per- 

 taining to forestry, which is receiving increased attention in the United 

 States since the primeval forests of the eastern states have been ruthlessly 

 demolished, and the people have begun to feel severely the want of trees for 

 shelter, ornament, timber, and fuel. The American Agriculturist, New York 

 U.S., a Magazine for the Farm, the Garden, and the Household, which is 

 perhaps the ablest and best conducted periodical treating of all imaginable 

 rural affairs in America. We have also received Tatham's Timher Tables, 

 printed on both sides of a card, seven inches by five inches, too large for 

 the pocket, and not at all handy in its present shape, although the tables 

 are most useful. On another neat and handy card, suitable for the vest 

 pccket, is the following usefal memorandum :— 



Tatham's Timber PtiiYME. 

 Six girt is a quaeter, so we have heard. 

 But SEVEN ditto will be found a third ; 

 Eight and a half is the half, without trouble. 

 Twelve is the "whole and seventeen the double ; 

 Take half for larger girts, and foub times the contents find. 

 The same for greater lengths, but double the contents, minJ. 

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