Mr. Murray's Recent Publications. 



The Great Silver River, 



AND THE ARGENTINE STATES, AS A FIELD 

 FOR BRITISH SETTLERS. 



NOTES OF A RESIDENCE IN BUENOS AYRES. 



By Sir HORACE RUMBOLD, Bart., K.C.M.G. 



2nd Edition, with a Chapter on the Commercial Resottrces of the Country. 

 Illustrations. Crowii 8vo. I2s. 



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The Railways of America. 



THEIR CONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT, 



AND APPLIANCES. 



By VARIOUS WRITERS. 



WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS M. COOLEY, 



Chairman of the Inter-State Commerce Commission. 



With Ma/>s, Charts, and 200 Illustrations, (480//.) Large %vo. 1,1s. dd. 



" There is far more of interest and information in the book than we have been able to allude 

 to ; and it is perhaps not entirely unsatisfactory to the English reader to find, on the authority 

 of the Americans themselves, that with all their energy and inventiveness, we are obviously still 

 ahead of them in the art of rendering railway travelling at once speedy and safe, and in general 

 principles and details of management. American engineers are behind no others of this epoch 

 in talent and resource, but American railway w-orking seems not yet to have surmounted the 

 drawbacks arising from an inherently loose system of construction and working, fixed upon it 

 at the outset by the desire for economy and by the lack of that feeling of responsibility for 

 public safety which seems much more developed in the English character in connexion with 

 public works of this kind. England has the credit of having invented the railway system, with 

 all its vast consequences to the world, and we may be allowed as a nation to feel some 

 pardonable pride in the assurance that in its working and management we are still in front of 

 all other nations." — The Builder. 



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The Railways of Scotland. 



THEIR PRESENT POSITION, WITH A GLANCE AT THEIR PAST, 

 AND A FORECAST OF THEIR FUTURE. 



By W. M. ACWORTH, 



Author of " The Railways of Kngland." 



With a Map of the Scottish Railway System. Crown Svo. ^s. 



" Mr. Acworth has lost no time in following up his interesting book on English railways 

 with a very readable companion volume. This is a concise review of the past history of 

 Scottish railway enterprise, and a suggestive survey of the present outlook, with its notable 

 activity of competition and exploitation. From both aspects Mr. Acworth's book, with its 

 admirable map of e.xisting lines and lines in progress, is eminently satisfactory. Burning 

 questions of amalgamation or of competitive and retaliatory policies are treated with discretion. 

 They are discussed, as was inevitable, but discussed within sober and proper bounds." — 

 Saturday Rei'iew. 



