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LITER ATUEE AND LITERARY PROGRESS 



1868. 



Capital and Labor. Why should the Laboring 

 Man be poor, while the Idler is rich ? by Truman 

 Beeman. 



Fragments of Political Science on Nationalism and 

 Internationalism, by Francis Lieber, LL. D. 



Suffrage for Women: the Seasons why, by Lois 

 Waisbrooker. 



Essays on Political Organization. Submitted for 

 the Prizes offered by the Union League of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Eesumption of Specie Payments. Enforced Con- 

 traction of the Currency will cause Distress and 

 Panic, etc., by E. T. Paine, Jr. 



The Department of Mechanical Science and 

 Technology is always large, and increases with 

 each year, in part, perhaps, from the impa- 

 tience of our people of acquiring their knowl- 

 edge of any art or trade by the long road of 

 years of apprenticeship, when a theoretical ac- 

 quaintance with it can be gained so much more 

 expeditiously by means of text-books. The fol- 

 lowing were the most important books of this 

 department : 



How shall we Paint our Houses 1 The Art of 

 House-Painting, by J. W. Masury. 



Five Hundred Employments adapted to Women. 

 With the Average Kate of Pay in each, by Miss 

 Virginia Penney. 



The Wine-Maker's Manual : A Guide to the Man- 

 ufacturers of Still and Sparkling Wines, etc., by 

 Charles Eeemelin. 



American Houses. Designs for Eural Buildings, 

 by Samuel Sloan, Architect. 



American Engineering, Illustrated, by G. Weissen- 

 born. 



A Treatise on the Metallurgy of Iron : Containing 

 Outlines of the History of the Iron Manufacture, 

 Methods of Assay, Analysis of Iron Ores, etc. 

 With Appendix on Martin's Process of Making 

 Steel, by H. Bauerman. 



Eecent Improvements in the Steam-Engine ; being 

 a Supplement to the " Catechism of the Steam- 

 Engine," by T. Bourne (imported edition). 



Cabinet-Maker' s Album of Furniture. Forty-eight 

 Engraved Plates. 



Gothic Album for Cabinet-Makers : A Collection 

 of Designs for Gothic Furniture. Twenty-three 

 Engraved Plates. 



On the Construction of Iron Eoofs, by F. Campin. 



Conner's Navigation Simplified: A Manual of In- 

 struction in Navigation as Practised at Sea. 



Dart's Freight Computations. For Every Mode of 

 Transportation and Every Class of Storage. 



The Modern Geometrical Stair-Builder's Guide, by 

 Simon De Graff. Twenty-two Plates. 



The Mechanic's Tool-Book with Practical Direc- 

 tions for the Use of Machinists, Iron- Workers, 

 etc., by W. B. Harrison. 



Manual of United States Surveying ; with an Ap- 

 pendix of Information on Entering, Locating, 

 Purchasing, and Settling Lands, by J. H. 

 Hawes. 



A Hand-Book of Practical Gauging for the Use of 

 Beginners; with Instructions for the Use of 

 Sites, Hydrometer, etc., by J. B. Keene. 



A Treatise on Steel : Comprising its Theory, Me- 

 tallurgy, Properties, Practical Working, and Use, 

 by M. H. C. Landrin. Translated, with an Appen- 

 dix on the Bessemer and Martin Processes for 

 Manufacturing Steel, by A. A. Fesquet. 



The Lathe and its Uses : or, Instruction in the Art 

 of Turning Wood and Metal (imported edition). 



The Practical Stair-Builder : a Complete Treatise 

 on the Art of Building Stairs and Hand-Bails ; 

 for Carpenters and Bunders, by C. E. Loth. 



Distillation Brewing, and Malting, by J. McCul- 



On Aniline and its Derivatives, by A. Eeimann. 

 With Hoffmann's Beport on the Coloring Matters 

 derived from Coal-Tar, revised and edited by 

 W. Crookes. 



The Carpenter, Joiner, and Elements of Hand- 

 Eailing; new and revised edition, by E. Eid- 

 dell. 



A Practical Guide for Puddling Iron and Steel, by 

 E. Urbin ; with a Comparison of the Eesisting 

 Properties of Iron and Steel, by A. Brull. From 

 the French, by A. A. Fesquet. 



Statistics of the Coal-Trade of the United States for 

 1866. To which are added Prize Essays on Min- 

 ing Bituminous Coal, from the London Mining 

 Journal. 



Manual of Instruction for the Improved Method 

 of Building with Concrete, by S. T. Fowler. 



A Manual of Instruction in the Art of Wood-En- 

 graving ; with a Description of the Necessary 

 Tools and Apparatus, by J. S. Fuller. 



The Mine of Wealth and Guide for the Million : 

 Containing the Secret System and Instructions 

 for the Manufacture of Wines, Liquors, Cordials, 

 and Bitters; Cookery; Fireworks, etc., etc., by 

 Dr. William Fitzgibbon. 



The Invaluable Companion : Containing the Cele- 

 brated $1,000 Eeceipt and 459 other Eeceipts, etc. 



The Watch : its Construction, Merits, and Defects ; 

 how to Choose it and how to Use it, etc., etc., 

 by H. F. Piaget. 



Gold in an Amorphous and Chemically combined 

 Condition in Nature : with a Description of Pro- 

 cesses for Extracting Precious Metals from their 

 Ores, by Prof. L. Fleury. 



Leaf and Flower Pictures, and how to Make them. 

 New edition. 



Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements : 

 Embracing the Most Important in Dynamics, 

 Hydraulics, etc., by H. T. Brown. 



The American Watchmaker and Jeweller, by J. P. 

 Stelle. 



The Crack Shot, or Young Eifleman's Complete 

 Guide } by E. C. Barber. 



A Treatise on Hat-Making and Felting, including 

 a Full Exposition of the Singular Properties of 

 Fur, Wool, and Hair, by John Thompson, a Prac- 

 tical Hatter. 



Description of the Piers of the New Eailroad 

 Bridges of the Boston and Providence Eailroad 

 over the Seekonk Eiyer, by J. A. Monroe. 



Plan for building a Bridge across the East Eiver at 

 Blackwell's Island, by W. P. Trowbridge. 



The Standard Sign Writer and Letterer's Compan- 

 ion ; a Series of Alphabets of the Most ap- 

 proved Styles, by an Association of Practical 

 Sign-Painters. 



A Manual of Photography ; a Text-Book for Be- 

 ginners, and a Book ol Eeference for Advanced 

 Photographers, by M. Carey Lea. 



In the department of Mathematical Science, 

 there were a few works in the higher walks of 

 the science, and the business applications of 

 Mathematics, but the greater part of the addi- 

 tions of the year to this department were text- 

 books. The following were the principal : 



The Philosophy of Mathematics, with Special Eef- 

 erence to the Elements of Geometry and the In- 

 finitesimal Method, by Prof. Albert .T. Bledsoe. 



A Treatise on the Method of Least Squares ; or, 

 the Application of the Theory of Probabilities 

 in the Combination of Observations, by W. 

 Chauvenet. 



Ganot's Elements of Physics, Experimental and Ap- 

 plied. Translated and edited by S. Atkinson. 

 3d edition.enlarged. 



Lessons in Numbers in the Natural Order : 1. Vis- 

 ible Objects ; 2. Concrete Numbers ; 3. Abstract 

 Numbers, by J. H. French, LL. D. 



