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Dr. A. KusSfll : Stca:n Electric Power Plants ; a Practical 

 I'reatise on the Design of Central Light and Power 

 Stations and their Economical Construction and Operation, 

 F. Kciester, illustrated ; The Internal Combustion Engine. 

 H. E W'impcris, illustrated. C. Griffin and Co., Ltd. — The 

 .Screw Propeller and other Competing Instruments for 

 Marine Propulsion, A. E. Seaton, illustrated ; The Design 

 and Construction of Ships, Prof. J. H. Biles, 2 vols., illus- 

 trated ; Transformers, Profs. H. Bohle and D. Robertson, 

 illustrated ; Horse-power Computer for Steam Engines, 

 H. A. Golding ; Horse-power Computer for Petrol Motors, 

 H. A. Golding; Oil -Motors, G. Liecl<feld, illustrated, trans- 

 lated ; Suction Gas Plant, Prof. C. A. Smith, illustrated ; 

 A Manual on Electrical Signalling in Mines, G. J. Hoogh- 

 winkel, illustrated ; Electrical and Petrol-electrical Motor- 

 cars : being Part ii. of .Motor-car Mechanism and Manage- 

 ment, W. P. .Adams, illustrated. Crosby Lockwood and 

 ."^on. — Dynamo, .Motor, and Switchboard Circuits for Elec- 

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 Bowker, new edition, illustrated ; Technical Terms, 

 English-.Spanish, Spanish-English : a Pocket Glossary of 

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 R. D. Monteverde. Longmans and Co. — Strength of 

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 Drawings of, a Four-cylinder Petrol Engine, arranged for 

 Use in Technical and FZngineering Schools, Prof. H. J. 

 Spooner. Whiltakcr and Co. — Transformers for Single 

 and .Multiphase Currents, Prof. G. Kapp, new edition, 

 illustrated. 



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Edivard .Arnold. — In Search of a Polar Continent, -\. H. 

 Harrison, illustrated; On Safari: Big Game Hunting in 

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 Months in the Himalayas : a Record of Mountain Travel 

 in Garhwal and Kashmir, A. L. Mumm, illustrated. 

 John Bale, Sons, and Daniclsson, Ltd. — My Life -Among 

 the Wild Birds of Spain, Colonel W. Verncr, illustrated. 

 .T and C. Black.— The Round World, J. Fairgrieve, illus- 

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 Egypt in .Asia : a Plain -Account of Pre-Biblical Syria and 

 Palestine, Rev. J. Baikie, illustrated. IT. Blackwood and 

 .Soii,«. — .\ Wandering Student in the Far East, the Earl of 

 Ronaldshay, illustrated. 7'hc Cambridge University Press. 

 — Yiin-nan, the Link between India and the Yangtze, 

 Major H. R. Davies. A. Constable and Co., Ltd.— 

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 Luigi -Amcdeo of Savoy, Duke of the -Abbruzzi, to the Snow 

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 illustrated; Persia: the -Awakening East, W. P. Cresson, 

 illustrated ; The Fijians : a Study of the Decay of Custom] 

 H. 'J'homson ; Syria, Gertrude Lowthian Bell, illustrated 

 (cheaper edition of The Desert and the Sown) ; Dan to 

 Heersheba : Work and Travel in Four Continents, -A. R. 

 Colquhoun. John Lane. — Kashmir : the Land of Streams 

 and Solitudes, P. Pirie, illustrated. Macmillan and Co., 

 Ltd. — Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and -Andes, being 

 Records of Travel on the -Amazon and its Tributaries, the 

 Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupi^s, Casiquari, Pacimoni, 

 Huallaga, and Pastasa ; as also to the Cataracts of the 

 Orinoco, along the Eastern Side of the -Andes of Peru 

 and Ecuador, and the Shores of the Pacific, during the 

 Years 1849-64, Dr- R- Spruce, edited and completed, by 

 means of journals, letters, unpublished MSS-. and other 

 materials, by Dr. A. Russel Wallace, F.R.S., 2 vols., 

 illustrated; Ala.ska— the Great Countrv, E. Higginson, 

 illustrated; Highways and Byways of the Pacific Coast, 

 C. Johnson, illustrated. John Milne. — The Heart of the 

 Wild : \\\\(i Life Studies from Near and Far, S. L. Ben- 

 susan, illustrated. John Murray.— The Life of Philibert 

 Commerson : an Old-world Story of French Travel and 

 Science in the Davs of Linnaeus', the late Captain S. P. 

 Oliver, edited by G. F. Scott Elliot, illustrated ; The 

 Shores of the -Adriatic, the -Austrian Side : an -Architectural 

 and Arch.eological Pilgrimage, F. H. Jackson, illustrated. 

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 -Appliances, a new edition of Dr. H. R. Mill's Hints to 

 Teachers and Students on the Choice of Geographical 

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 prepared by J. F. Llnstead and N. E. MacMunn, edited 

 by Dr. -A. J. Herbcrtson. Sir L Pitman and Sons, Ltd. — 

 Notes of Lessons on Geography, L. Marsh, 2 vols. G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons. — The Great Plains, R. Parrish ; -A Canyon 

 Voyage : the Second Powell E.xpedition down the Green- 

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 Lane in the Years 1871 and 1872, F. S. Dellenbaugh, 

 illustrated; The Niagara River, -A. B. Hulbert ; Historic 

 Indiana, J. H. Levering. T. Fisher Vnwin. — Mountaineer- 

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Geologv. 

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 Edward Arnold. — The Geology of Ore Deposits, H. H. 

 Thomas and D. -A. Mac-Alister, illustrated. U'. and R. 

 Chambers, Ltd. — The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and 

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 J. W. Gregory, F.R.S. Milner and Co., Ltd. — Geology, 

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M.ATIIF.MATIC.HL .\\I5 PlIVSIC.VL SCIENCE. 



.4. and C. Black. — .Analytical Geometry of the Conic 

 Sections, Rev. Dr. E. H. -Askwith, illustrated. The Cam- 

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 C. E. Ashford and E. W. E. Kempson ; .A Treatise on 

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 of Euclid's F-lements, a new translation from the Greek, 

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 vol. ii.. Tidal Friction and Cosmogony; Cambridge 

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 the years 1839-44; .An Introduction to the .Study of Integral 

 Equations, Prof. M. B6cher. H'. and R. Chambers, Ltd. 

 — The Wonder Book of Atmosphere, Prof. E. J. Houston, 

 illustrated ; Electricity for Young People, T. Jenks, 

 illustrated ; Photography for A'oung People, T. Jenks, 

 illustrated. A. Constable and Co., Ltd. — Smoley's Parallel 

 Tables of Logarithms and Squares : -Angles and 

 Logarithmic Functions. Corresponding to given levels, 

 together with a complete set of Five-figure Logarithmic- 

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 Students, C. Smoley ; Smoley's Parallel Tables : Five-place 

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 Villars (Paris). — Exercises et Lemons d '.Analyse, R. 

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 I'-Analyse, Prof. R. Baire, 2 vols., illustrated; La Mesure 

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 Guillaume, new edition, illustrated ; CEuvres de Pierre 

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 Prof. P. Janet, 3 vols., new- edition, illustrated; La 

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