BOOKS RECEIVED 187 



Geodetic Surveying. By Edward R. Carey, C.E., Professor of Railroad 

 Engineering and Geodesy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Member of the 

 American Society of Civil Engineers ; Member of the American Railway 

 Engineering Association ; Member of the New York Railway Club. First 

 Edition. London : Chapman & Hall ; New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1916. 

 (Pp. ix + 279.) Price 10s. 6d. net. 



Land and Marine Diesel Engines. By Giorgio Supino. Translated by Eng. 

 Lieut.-Commdr. A. G. Bremner, R.N., and James Richardson, B.Sc. (Eng.) 

 Lond., A.M.Inst.C.E. With 10 Plates and 380 Illustrations in the text. 

 London : Charles Griffin & Co., Exeter Street, Strand, 191 5. (Pp. xv + 309.) 

 Price 12s. 6d. net. 



Reminiscences of Fifty Years' Experience of the Application of Scientific Method 

 to Brewing Practice. By Horace T. Brown, LL.D., F.R.S. Paper read 

 before the London Section of the Institute of Brewing at a Meeting held on 

 Monday, May 8, 1916, at the Trocadero Restaurant, London. To be 

 published in the May— June 1916 No. of the Journal of the Institute of 

 Brewing. London : Harrison & Sons, St. Martin's Lane, 1916. (Pp. 82.) 



The Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and 

 Ireland. A Record of the Work Done in Science, Literature, and Art during 

 the Session 1914-15 by Numerous Societies and Government Institutions. 

 Compiled from Official Sources. Thirty-second Annual Issue. London : 

 Charles Griffin & Co., Exeter Street, Strand, 191 5. (Pp. vi + 351.) Price 

 ys. 6d. net. 



Theosophy and Modern Thought. Four Lectures delivered at the Thirty-ninth 

 Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society, held at Adyar, Madras, 

 December 1914. By Jinarajadasa, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge. 

 India : Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Madras, 191 5. (Pp. 171). 



The Coaster at Home. By J. M. Stuart-Young. Vol. I. London : Arthur 

 H. Stockwell, 29, Ludgate Hill, E.C., 1916. (Pp. 404.) Price S*. net - 



From the advertisement of this book one is led to expect that it contains 

 much useful information about the West African Coast and one is therefore 

 surprised to find that it is chiefly the personal expression of a particular trader. 

 If one divests one's mind of such preconceived ideas, however, and takes the 

 work on its own basis, there is to be found in it much of interest and merit. 

 The writing, though colloquial, is powerful and holds the attention throughout. 

 In the first part the reader obtains a vivid impression of the country, its 

 inhabitants and the life of the traders ; and the sketches of the different 

 people with whom the author has come in contact, though slight, are so 

 cleverly touched-in that each character is a distinct personality and bears 

 the stamp of reality. Any one who contemplates settling in that country 

 would derive from this work an adequate idea of what kind of life he might 

 expect ; and those who read this first volume will look forward to the 

 publication of the second, which, the Editor says, will deal more fully with the 

 West African life and the effect of the war on Colonial affairs. 



Seventy-Seventh Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and 

 Marriages in England and Wales (1914). (Cd. 8206.) Presented to Both 

 Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. London : Printed under 

 the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Darling & Son, Bacon 

 Street, E., 1916. Price 5^. id. 



Alfred Russel Wallace. Letters and Reminiscences. By James Marchant. 

 In Two Volumes. With 2 Photogravures and 8 Half-tone Plates. London : 

 Cassell & Co., and New York, Toronto, and Melbourne, 1916. (Pp. Vol. I. 

 xi + 320, Vol. II. 291.) Price 255. net. 



Annual Magazine Subject-Index, 1915. A Subject-Index to a Selected List of 

 American and English Periodicals and Society Publications. Edited by 

 Frederick Winthrop Faxon, A.B. Compiled with the co-operation of 

 Librarians. Boston : The Boston Book Company, 1916. (Pp. 269.) 



