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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1916. 



Editor's Book Table. 



STRAICHT AMERKA. A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE. 

 * By Frances A. Kcllor. The Macmillan Co., New York City. [200 

 pages.] 



THIS book contains much interesting matter well worth the 

 attention of every citizen of the United States. Its scope is 

 defined by the following extract from a prefatory letter 

 written by Ex-President Roosevelt. It says : "Emphasis is 

 rightly laid upon the need of nationalism in all of the big ques- 

 tions of the day, from education to industrialism, for we cannot 

 have a real American citizenship unless that citizenship is empliat- 

 ically national. We cannot deal with immigration, unless we deal 

 with it from the standpoint of a national Americanism. We can- 

 not solve our industrial questions, especially the question of trans- 

 portation, including all questions of interstate industrial enterprise 

 engaged in manufactures and commerce, except from a national 

 st.mdpoint." 



rate list in another portion of the book. The book will be found 

 of value to buyers of the various classes of goods and materials 

 in the industries of whicli it treats. 



OFFICIAL AMKRICAN TEXTILE DIRECTORY, 1916. COMPILED 

 by the Textile World Journal. Bragdon, Lord Si Nagle Co., New York 

 City. [Flexible cloth covers. 8vo, 650 pages. Price, $2.] 



This directory, which is pubHshed annually, gives a large 

 amount of valuable information regarding the textile industry 

 of the United States. This comprises nearly 7,000 establish- 

 ments, including not only cotton, woolen, silk, flax and jute 

 mills, but establishments devoted to dyeing, finishing, bleach- 

 ing, printing and other branches of the textile industry. Full 

 information is given regarding each of these mills, the names 

 of officers, agents, superintendents, and the character of the 

 goods made, and such other items as the number of spindles, 

 looms, whether the mill uses steam or water power, etc. The book 

 is arranged geographically, alphabetically, and according to style 

 of goods manufactured, and will undoubtedly be found extremely 

 useful to all engaged in these industries. 



AUTOMOBILE NOMENCLATURE. THE SOCIETY OF AUTOMO- 

 bile Engineers. New York City. 



Confusion frequently arises from lack of uniformity in naming 

 and describing parts of automobiles, and one of the objects of the 

 Standardization Committee has been to decide upon the terminol- 

 ogy for universal use in such descriptions. The report of this 

 committee gives a list recommended by the Society of Automo- 

 bile Engineers which contains over 600 separate names of the 

 more important parts, this list being developed through the com- 

 bined efforts of engineering and service representatives from a 

 number of the leading automobile manufacturers. Undoubtedly 

 it will serve to prevent confusion and to enable automobile 

 owners, dealers and manufacturers to more accurately and thor- 

 oughly understand exactly what is meant by various terms. 



HENDRICKS' COMMERCIAL REGISTER OF THE UNITED STATES 

 for Buyers and Sellers. S. E. Hendricks Co., Inc., New Y'ork City. 

 [4to, 1,738 pages. Price $10.] 



With the present number, this standard publication rounds out 

 a quarter of a century of usefulness. The work is especially 

 devoted to the interests of the architectural, contracting, electri- 

 cal, engineering, hardware, iron, mechanical, mill, mining, 

 quarrying, railroad, steel and kindred industries, containing 

 about 350.000 names and addresses, with upward of 45,000 busi- 

 ness classifications. Theje lists contain the names of concerns 

 handling the various products of these industries from producer 

 to retailer. An innovation is a list of trade names, brands and 

 titles of identification, this portion of the book being printed on 

 a tinted paper, so as to be easily and quickly identified by the 

 user, and numbering 202 pages, or in the vicinity of 10,000 names. 

 This list includes many trade names of specialties manufactured 

 of rubber. Automobile and motor car names are given in a sepa- 



CREEN MANURES AND MANURING IN THE TROPICS. BY P. 

 de SORNAY. Translated into English by F. W. Flattelcy. John Bale, 

 Sons & Danielsson, Limited, London, England. [Large 8vo, 466 pages. 

 Price, I6s. net.] 



In India, Malaya and the West Indies ancj throughout the 

 tropics and sub-tropics generally, the question of manuring is 

 an important one. This book which treats the cultivation of 

 the Leguminos<E crops, is one which gives much information 

 regarding this special method of feeding nitrogen to the soil. 

 Many queries are answered in this book, which will enable the 

 planter to solve some of the difficulties of enriching the soil. The 

 work will be found helpful to those who would learn how to 

 cultivate legumes, either for seed and oil, fodder, cover-crops, 

 or as green manures. There is a very complete index and also 

 a table of French and English equivalents which will be found 

 useful for reference. 



INDUSTRIAL .\CCIDENT PREVENTION. ISSUED UNDER THE 

 direction of the Industrial Commission, New York State Department 

 of Labor. [54 pages.] 



The Industrial Commission of the State of New York has 

 issued a pamphlet which gives in condensed form a vast amount 

 of information regarding industrial accidents and many sugges- 

 tions for their prevention. The causes of such accidents being 

 given, such precautions are suggested as mechanical guards, 

 industrial hygiene, prevention of fatigue of employes, their wel- 

 fare and safety, education of illiterate workmen, and the adver- 

 tising of safety by various means, such as bulletin boards, 

 pictures, danger signs, letters in pay envelopes, books of rules and 

 moving pictures. Workmen's committees are advised for seeing 

 that safety suggestions are carried out, and education in first 

 aid to the injured is also advised. The book is one which will 

 be advantageously read by every employer of labor. 



A NEW RUBBER PLANTERS' JOURNAL. 



"The Netherlandsch Indisch Rubbcrtijdschrift" (The Nether- 

 lands India Rubber Journal) is a new bimonthly publication 

 devoted to the increasingly important rubber problems of Hol- 

 land and her colonies. Tlie new bimonthly is under the man- 

 agement of K. L. F. Goelst, and W. J. Van den Leemkolk, and 

 is published in Batavia. Java. It is the first paper devoted to 

 this industry to be published in the Dutch East Indies, and is 

 the official organ of the Rubber Planters' Association there. 



The contents are largely signed contributions from practical 

 men in various branches of the rubber industry. There are 

 essays on selection of seed, planting, tapping, cultivation, diseases 

 of Hevea, coagulants, accelerators, vulcanization, besides general 

 articles on the future of planting in the Netherlands Indies, and 

 profits and losses in management. The market and statistical 

 departments are very comprehensive, and here the Dutch head- 

 ings are supplemented by English translations, to render this 

 information more widely available. The new publication starts 

 out with an excellence which bespeaks for it a useful and pros- 

 perous future. 



PAUAMERICAN MAGAZINE RUBBER ARTICLES. 



The "Pan-American Magazine," New York City, for Septem- 

 ber has finely illustrated articles on "The Rubber Industry of 

 the .\mazon" and "Impressions of Manaos," both by L. E. 

 Elliott. F.R.G.S.. together with an article on "Old Travelers 

 on the .'\mazon," the last-mentioned relating to the explorations 

 of early travelers in the first half of the nineteenth century. 



