94 Modern English Books. 



1039. GUNMAKING BY MACHINERY. An article in the 

 Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. xix., p. 423. 



1040. GUNMAKING IN THE UNITED STATES. Rogers Birnie. 

 This is a monograph on ordnance construction issued 

 by the Public Service Publishing Co., New York, 1888. 

 Demy 8vo, 123 pp., plates and diagrams. 



1041. REPORT. On the Manufacture of Firearms and 

 Ammunition in the United States. C. H. Fitch. This 

 is an extra Census Bulletin compiled by a special agent, 

 and contains accurate and well illustrated descriptions 

 of the methods of making rifles, guns, revolvers, and 

 metallic ammunition by machinery, as practised in 

 New England and at the Springfield Factory. 

 Washington, D. C., 1882. 4to, 38 pp., woodcuts. 



1042. GUNSMITH'S MANUAL. J. P. Stelle and W. B. Harri- 

 son. Described as a "Complete Handbook for the 

 Apnerican Gunsmith, being a practical guide to all 

 branches of the trade." This book is really a collec- 

 tion of workshop recipes and hints, and is designed 

 to furnish such information as shall be of most use 

 as a guide to the everyday conduct of the shop, and 

 for such demands or emergencies as are liable to 

 challenge the skill of the workmen. It does not 

 assume to guide the skilled manufacturer in the 

 management of a large factory ; it is intended rather 

 as a guide to the workman in acquiring, first, a prac- 

 tical knowledge in every branch of his calling; and, 

 secondly, in the proper conduct of his business when 

 he is established in a shop of his own. The work 

 covers descriptions of guns and pistols, gun-stocks, gun- 

 barrels, tools for breeching guns, tools for chambering 

 breechloading barrels ; gun-ribs, thimbles, rifling guns, 

 gun-locks, fitting gun-hammers, nipples or cones, 

 springs, rods, bullet moulds, screw-making tools, and 

 in fact everything necessary to the instruction of the 

 working gunsmith in his handicraft. Jesse Haney 

 & Co., New York, 1883. 8vo, 376 pp., 3 folding 

 plates, woodcuts, etc., in text; price $2. 



