February 1, 1913.] 



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The Editor's Book Table. 



INDIA-RUBBER JOURNAL DIARY AND YEAR BOOK, 1913. Mac- 

 laren & Sons, Limited, London, England. [Cloth, 4to, 96 pages, besides 

 122 pages of diary.] 



THIS diary, which is in the usual convenient size of 11J4 x 

 S'/a inches, has once more appeared, and is fully up to the 

 mark of its predecessors. Its statistical and other infor- 

 mation in the introductory portion is as complete as usual, and 

 shows much careful preparation. 



HENDRICK'S COMMERCIAL REGISTER OF THE UNITED STATES. 

 Twenty-first Annual Edition, 1912. Samuel E, Hendricks Co., New 

 York. [Cloth, 1,575 pages, price $10.] 



That this standard work has reached its twenty-first annual 

 edition is the best proof of the valuable character of its 

 contents. To the export buyer it is particularly valuable, as in 

 the entire work there are 13,333 headings, each representing one 

 article, with the names of the makers in each instance. 



Those who know the "Register" will appreciate the complete- 

 ness of this new edition, while those who have not hitherto used 

 it, will probably find it just what they have been wanting. 



FACTORY MUTUAL INSURANCE. The achievements of seventy-firt 

 yeari. Compiled to observe the fiftieth anniversary of the Arkwright 

 Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Boston. [Pasteboard. Svo. 123 pp. 

 Privately printed.] 



The Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Boston, is one of 

 the Associated Factory Mutual Insurance Companies, generally 

 called "The New England Mutuals." It is an association of 

 manufacturers for the prevention of fire loss and for the se- 

 curing of insurance at cost. The company was founded in 1860, 

 and this book is a souvenir of its half century of successful exis- 

 tence; and it very properly takes the form of a history of the 

 whole mutual fire insurance development since its beginning in 

 1835. In that year a Xew England manufacturer conceived tht 

 idea that by getting other manufacturers to associate themselves 

 with him, and by agreeing to share fire losses in their plants they 

 could all secure insurance on much better terms. The idea was a 

 good one. It was put into practice and has grown to such an 

 extent that at the present time, in this country and in Canada, 

 there are about 20 of these manufacturers' mutual insurance 

 associations, with a valuation of their combined manufacturing 

 properties aggregating over $2,000,000,000. Among this number 

 might be mentioned the Rubber Manufacturers' Mutual Insur- 

 ance Co., founded in 1884, and having an amount of risk of 

 about $60,000,000. 



The work of these mutual associations has been very success- 

 ful in the great decrease of disastrous fires. As an illustration, 

 during the IS years from 1880 to 1895 there were among the 

 plants insured by these companies 31 large fires, with an ag- 

 gregate loss of $7,500,000; in the last IS years from 189S to 

 1910, notwithstanding the fact that the average amount of risk 

 covered by these companies had increased from $550,000,000 to 

 $1,200,000,000, the number of large fires dropped to 8, and tht 

 total loss to $1,400,000. 



Naturally as all losses are borne by all members of the asso- 

 ciated companies, all are mutually interested to have the best 

 protection for their own property and for that of all other mem- 

 bers. As a consequence great care is exercised in the original 

 construction of plants and in their proper protection thereafter. 



The above paragraphs give but a faint idea of the amount of 

 interesting information in this little book. It contains a num- 

 ber of tables and charts and a great many cuts made from pho- 

 tographs; and altogether contains a mass of insurance infor- 

 mation of great value to manufacturers, builders, architects and 



mill engineers. The book is not for sale, but can be secured, 

 by people whose occupation makes them interested in the sub- 

 ject, from the Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Boston. 



CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF LEAD AND ITS COMPOUNDS, by John 

 A. Schaeffer, A. M., Ph. D., and Bernard S. White. Joplin, Missouri, 

 1912. Picher Lead Co. [8vo, cloth, 63 pages.) 



It is a Standing requirement of modem technical practice that 

 the laboratory must control every process from the raw material 

 to the various finished products. The Picher Lead Co., the well- 

 known makers of lead compounds, in response to numerous and 

 constant requests, have grouped the leading features of standard 

 and new analyses of lead ores, pig lead, sublimed white and 

 blue lead, red lead, litliarge and other preparations of the mineral, 

 in this concise and well prepared booklet. 



The analyses are followed by accurate calculations, which 

 facilitate their application. 



An interesting section of the work deals with the idiometric 

 determination of antimony and arsenic in lead-antimony alloys, 

 while a comprehensive index assists in proinpt reference to the 

 various branches of lead analysis. 



By means of the blank pages of ruled writing paper bound in 

 at the back of the booklet, notes of study or experiments can be 

 preserved. To users of lead in its various forms this little 

 work will prove invaluable. 



MY TOWN, OR COMMUNITY PATRIOTISM. BY GEORGE BLACK- 

 stone Irving. Rogerson Press, Chicago, Illinois. [Svo. 136 pp. Paper 

 covers. Price 50c.] 



This book has nothing in the world to do with rubber, as it is 

 primarily an attempt to create and increase local patriotism. In- 

 directly, it has this much to do with the rubber industry, viz., 

 that many of the most conspicuous rubber manufacturers have 

 been, and are illustrious examples of local patriotism — not only 

 looking after the welfare of their own employes, but contributing 

 handsomely toward everything that promotes the welfare of the 

 community in which their enterprise is situated. The author of 

 this book, Mr. Irving, has lectured for years on this subject, 

 traveling all through the country. His particular forte is to visit 

 a town that needs "boosting," and to show the citizens in what 

 way they can cooperate for the best interest of the community, 

 and consequently for the best interest of each of its citizens. 



When our synthetic friends succeed in producing rubber, as 

 they hope to, at 8 cents a pound, so that it can be used liberally 

 for pavement purposes, the promotion of local welfare and the 

 rubber industry will be closely associated, for naturally the first 

 suggestion that any wise community improver will then make, 

 will be the taking up of noisy cobbles and the putting down of 

 streets of noiseless rubber. 



GKENTERS RUBBER ANNUAL FOR 1912. 



This is a quarto publication of 44 pages, printed on a very 

 fine quality of coated paper, which not only brings out the text 

 sharply but shows the most excellent halftones, of which there 

 is a generous number, to extreme advantage. 



More and more attractive with each recurrent year, this annual 

 has become a standard feature of rubber trade journalism. Its 

 literary contents include articles on "The Rubber Position," by 

 S. M. Gluckstein; "Brazilian Rubber Reforms," by Arthur 

 Shepard ; "Rubber Costs and Commissions," by J. F. Ashly, 

 "Rubber and Ten Per Cent.," by Sidney Pearson, and "Factors 

 Affecting the Valuation of Rubber Shares," by W. A. Tinnock. 



The illustrations, 86 in number, represent scenes on as many 

 estates, and add greatly to the interest and value of the 

 publication. 



