March 1, 1917.] 



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The Editor's Book Table. 



EXPORT TRADE DIRECTORY. BY B. OLNEY HOUGH. JOHNSTON 

 Export Publishing Co.. New York City. 1540 pages, cloth, $5.] 



THIS important trade directory comes to us much enlarged 

 over the previous number, containing as it does a gain of 

 more than 50 per cent in many of its principal lists. Export 

 merchants in New York are given to the number of 1,295 in place 

 of less than 800 in the last edition and the San Francisco list shows 

 a gain of more than 20 per cent. The book gives lists of the prin- 

 cipal export merchants of the United States, export agents and 

 brokers, the leading bankers engaged in foreign exchange busi- 

 ness, marine insurance companies, foreign freight forwarders, 

 the steamship service to foreign ports, consuls of foreign coun- 

 tries in the United States and our consuls in foreign countries, 

 associations for promoting export trade, and several classified 

 lists for quick reference as to goods manufactured or markets 

 cultivated. The book is compiled by B. Olney Hough, editor of 

 the "American Exporter." 



COMMERCIAL WOODS OF THE PHILIPPINES; THEIR PREPARA- 

 tion and Uses. By E. E. Schneider, Bureau of Forestry, Manila, 

 Philippine Islands. [8vo, 274 pages, paper covers, $1.00.] 



This work is intended primarily to furnish woodworkers and 

 users with authentic information concerning the woods of our 

 island possessions in the Far East. There is a concise account 

 of the forests, with a description of each species of wood, its 

 physical and mechanical properties, and the different purposes 

 for which it can be utilized. Quite full and untechnical direc- 

 tions are given for the identification of the trees, and of the 

 wood when cut into lumber. More than half the book is de- 

 voted to detailed descriptions of the 360 Philippine woods, with 

 notes on their mechanical properties and workability. Each is 

 given its botanical, and its local name or names, its uses, and 

 approximate prices. It is a book of practical use to those in- 

 terested in the building and wood-working trades. 



THE INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL IMPORTANCE OF FORESTRY IN 

 China. By Forsythe Sherfesee, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, 

 Peking, China. [Small 8vo, 26 pages.] 



Forsythe Sherfesee, Adviser in Forestry to the Agricultural 

 Department of the Chinese Republic, claims in this paper, which 

 is reprinted from "The Chinese Social and Political Review," 

 that the chief handicap in China's industrial advance is the 

 lack of forests, and consequent scarcity of wood for building, 

 manufacturing purposes and fuel. No other modern country 

 has been so denuded of forests, through heavy rainfalls washing 

 away the soil, and he predicts a condition similar to the Sahara, 

 unless forests are planted. Millions of acres of public lands, 

 unsuited to agriculture but fully capable of supporting forest 

 growth, lie idle and unproductive. To overcome this state of 

 affairs, there was created last year the first Chinese National 

 Forest Service, and this body is inaugurating a comprehensive 

 plan for reforestation in many sections of the country. 



FATIGUE STUDY. BY FRANK B. AND LILLIAN M. GILBRETH. 

 Sturgis & Walton Co., New York City. [Small 8vo, 159 pages, illus- 

 •trated. Price, $1.50.] 



The twentieth century manufacturer aims to find the best 

 workers, and to secure from them their best work. To accomplish 

 the latter is the object of the study which is here described. 

 Every worker, whatever his task, can do better work, and labor 

 effectively for a longer time, if conditions are such that no un- 

 necessary fatigue is induced. This book is devoted to such study. 

 It contains a large amount of practical matter, the result of scien- 

 tific investigation of two experts, with many definite suggestions 

 and reports of plans which have been worked out in the investiga- 

 tion for eliminating unnecessary fatigue. The book contains a 

 large number of illustrations from photographs taken at the plant 



of the New England Butt Co., where these studies have been put 

 to practical use and the results have proven their value. Espe- 

 cially interesting are some of the studies of false motion, where 

 a small electric light has been placed upon the hand and then a 

 photograph made, tracing the motions of the hand as recorded 

 on the photographic plate. These cyclegraphs and chrono- 

 graphs are worthy of special study. Many other special inven- 

 tions which have been made by the authors and put to practical 

 use are pictorially recorded, as well as some motion pictures^ 

 taken each five-hundredth of a minute for the purpose of study- 

 ing a means of eradicating false motions and fatigue. This book 

 aims to present the problem of fatigue in the industries in its 

 simplest form, and to outline its practical solution. 



MOTOR TRUCKS OF AMERICA. VOL. 5. THE B. F. GOODRICH 

 Co., Akron, Ohio. [164 pages, paper covers.] 



The truck tire department of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, has issued Volume 5 of its excellent work giving full de- 

 tails and specifications of the motor trucks manufactured in this 

 country. Each truck is pictured in an excellent half-tone, and 

 the various specifications as to model, capacity, price, the dimen- 

 sions of the motor, the wheelbase, and the tires, as well as every 

 other item regarding external and internal construction. More 

 than 120 different trucks are thus fully described. There is also- 

 a finely illustrated article entitled "Lengthening the Life of the 

 Motor Truck" and other information of value to every owner, 

 user and repairer of such vehicles. At the end of the book are 

 bound in, four printed and directed postcards which may be de- 

 tached and sent, requesting further publications of that company. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



THE DAVOL RUBBER CO., Providence, Rhode Island, is 

 distributing a very neat little catalog and price-list of 

 fountain syringes, water Iwttles and similar goods, handsomely 

 printed, with the various lines pictured in the vivid colors of 

 the goods themselves, the illustrations occupying the right-hand 

 pages, the description and prices on the pages opposite. It is at 

 once compact and comprehensive, and should bring business. 



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The Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, sends us a 

 finely printed catalog of its automobile products, including tires, 

 inner tubes, brake linings of various t>'pes, clutch facings and 

 disks, fan belts, bumpers, pedal pads, pump tubing, and various 

 styles and qualities of hose, besides miscellaneous accessories 

 for automobiles. Half-tone illustrations are profusely scattered 

 through the book, giving excellent ideas of the goods listed. A 

 bird's-eye view of the plant decorates the title page. 



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. "Science Progress," the well-known English quarterly, (John 

 Murray, Albermarle street, London) has sent this office the July 

 16, 1916, number, which contains an able and interesting "Histori- 

 cal Sketch of the Chemistry of Rubber," by S. C. Bradford, 

 B.Sc, of the Science Museum, South Kensington, London. In 

 less than a dozen octavo pages. Professor Bradford has collected 

 a host of facts, historical and chemical, including those regarding 

 the successful production of synthetic rubber, reviewing suc- 

 cinctly the experiments and researches from Hancock, in the early 

 '40s, to Matthews and Bayer during the present decade. 



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The Fisher Governor Co., Marshalltown, Iowa, sends out a 

 fine line of "bulletins" which are arranged to form, in the 

 self binder furnished, a full catalog of the pump governors, 

 reducing valves, exhaust and relief valves, pressure regulating 

 devices, steam traps and similar mechanis.nis for use in indus- 



