February 1, 1917.] 



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The Editor's Book Table. 



THE CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY OF PAINTS. BY MAXI- 

 milian Toch. Second revised edition. D. Van Nostrand Co., New 

 York City. [Large 8vo, 366 pages. Price, $4.] 



THIS Standard work, which has passed through two editions, 

 has been entirely rewritten and practically doubled in size. 

 It is an important work for manufacturers of paints, but is 

 also of value to manufacturers of rubber goods because many of 

 the materials described therein are used in the rubber industry. It 

 is especially valuable for the chemist and the laboratory worker, 

 inasmuch as it gives very complete directions for the analysis 

 of many of the materials and solvents used in rubber compound- 

 ing, the determination of relative purity, the detection of adul- 

 terations and the methods of manipulation in the manufacture. 

 There are 83 microphotographs, as well as other illustrations. 

 Valuable tables for conversion of French into English weights 

 and measures, specific gravity of various materials, international 

 atomic weights, and comparative thermometer readings, are also 

 included. In all, the book is one which should find a place in 

 the laboratory of every rubber factory. 



Mr. Toch calls attention to the occasional employment, of rub- 

 ber in the manufacture of paint, a fact perhaps unknown to 

 some rubber men. ''In certain classes of mixed paints, particu- 

 larly house paints which are made of corroded lead, sublimed 

 lead, barium sulphate, etc., there is a likelihood or tendency of 

 the pigment to settle. . . . To prevent this ... a manu- 

 facturer- feels the necessity of adding a combining medium . . . 

 to prevent the paint from settling hard in the package. Among, 

 these are gutta percha solutions, solution of balata, Para rubber, 

 gum chicle, etc. The rubber solutions mentioned serve their pur- 

 pose very well without injuring the paint." 



THE INDIA RUBBER. GUTT.VPERCHA AND ELECTRICAL DIARY 

 and Year Book, 1917. MacLaren & Sons, Limited, London, England. 

 [Large quarto, cloth, 150 pages.] 



This annual publication which has been of great value to the 

 rubber trade, not only in Great Britain but all other countries, 

 appears this season in similar form to that of former years, and 

 contains the usual statistical information which has made it so 

 valuable in the past. The trade in rubber goods, both domestic 

 and overseas, is carefully compiled and full statistics are given. 

 The trade index is very extensive, occupying 30 or more three- 

 column pages ; the figures of the imports and ree.xports of rub- 

 ber are given, and there follow the blank pages for the entry 

 of transactions for each week day for the current year, besides 

 several pages for miscellaneous memoranda. Instead of being 

 interleaved with blotting paper as formerly, several loose sheets 

 are furnished with the book, which is somewhat less bulky and 

 fully as convenient for use. There are a large number of trade 

 announcements, mainlv of British rubber manufacturars. 



GASOLENE AND HOW TO USE IT. BY G. A. BURRELL, Oil Sta- 

 tistical Society. Inc., Boston. Massachusetts. [281 pages, small 8vo, 

 flexible It-Theretle binding. Price $1.50.] 



Mr. Burrell, who until recently was in charge of the research 



laboratory for gas investigations, Bureau of Mines of the United 



States Government, has performed a commendable work in 



bringing into this compact handbook a fund of information which 



is of value to every user of gasolene for motive power, as a 



solvent, for heating or lighting, for cleansing, or for any other 



purpose. Precautions for handling, directions for extinguishing 



fires, directions for detecting the presence of gas, are among the 



subjects treated, and a large portion of the handbook is devoted 



to the many points of interest to the automobilist, where engine 



troubles are treated, and practical directions for overcoming 



them are given. There is a short section on the use of benzene 



in the rubber industry. The present shortage of gasolene is con- 



sidered, and a history of the petroleum industry embraces a short 

 account of the many refining processes, including the modern 

 "cracking" processes. The extraction of gasolene from natural 

 gas, from shale, etc., is also described. Substitutes come in for 

 description and consideration. Statistics, tables of specific gravity, 

 atomic weights, and nomenclature of the Society of Automobile 

 Engineers are added, making the little handbook a real vade 

 mecum for gasolene users. 



THE MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH IN THE TROPICS. BY W. J. 

 Simpson, C.M.G., M.I., F.R.C.P. William Wood & Co., New York 

 City. [16mo, illustrated, 174 pages. Price, $1.35.] 



American rubber men are instinctively turning toward the 

 plantations of the Far East. Tours of investigation are more 

 frequently chronicled; American capital is already invested in 

 this industry, and more is soon to follow. Thus the American 

 edition of this English publication could hardly have appeared 

 more opportunely. As lecturer on tropical hygiene at the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine, Dr. Simpson is well equipped to 

 deal with this subject, which he has treated comprehensively and 

 concisely in the present volume. The essential information has 

 been presented with the fewest number of words. There are 

 chapters on climate and personal precautions, diet, drinking water, 

 dwelling houses, illnesses of the tropics and their prevention, 

 with special chapters devoted to snake bites and wounds. With 

 this book and the medical equipment advised no man of the 

 north or south need fear for his persona! well-being while so- 

 journing along the equator. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE footwear catalogs of the several factories of the United 

 States Rubber Co. for the year 1917 follow in general style 

 those of previous years, being of the long narrow shape, with 

 handsome covers in colors, each with a distinctive design. They 

 are fully illustrated with large half-tones of all the various styles 

 of boots and shoes, thus, together with the printed descriptions, 

 giving very satisfactory information regarding the goods made 

 in each factory. After showing the styles, a department is de- 

 voted to illustrating the shapes of lasts, a side view and a sole 

 view being given, some new shapes being added which are 

 adapted to the latest styles of leather shoes they are intended 

 to cover. The net price-list is given at the end of each book. 



As stated above, the covers are distinctive and attractive, those 

 of the Lycoming and "Goodyear Glove" factories bearing neat, 

 well-drawn conventional designs which include the special brand 

 and the V. S. trade-mark. The Boston Rubber Shoe Co. catalog 

 is appropriately decorated with a picture of the Boston Tea 

 Party ; the L. Candee & Co. shows a bright lad in a lively shower ; 

 the American book pictures a scringueiro gathering latex ; the 

 Joseph Banigan Rubber Co. presents a couple of automobilists 

 in a snowstorm ; the Woonsocket Rubber Co.'s decoration is a 

 fisherman in midstream; the Meyer Rubber Co. contributes a 

 hunter in the wintry woods, while the Wales Goodyear catalog, 

 true to its trade-mark, depicts a polar bear on a cake of ice, with 

 the midnight sun in the background. 



Besides these there are the usual net and gross price-lists of 

 the above-named companies, and in addition, .net price-lists of knit 

 and felt boots of the Hastings Wool Boot Co. and the Medford 

 Woolen Manufacturing Co., the list of- miscellaneous goods, and 

 a special catalog of the Everstick rubbers. 

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John Royle & Sons, Paterson, New Jersey, is mailing on re- 

 quest to interested persons a well-printed. 20-page, illustrated 



