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SHELTON (W. Vincent, Foreman to the Imperial 



Ottoman Gun Factories, Constantinople) : 



THE MECHANIC'S GUIDE : A Hand- Book for Engineers and 

 Artizans. With Copious Tables and Valuable Recipes for Practical Use. 

 Illustrated. Second Mdition, Crown .8vo. Cloth, 7/6. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. 



Part I.— Arithmetic. 

 Part II.— Geometry. 

 Part III. — Mensuration. 

 Part IV. — Velocities in Boring and 

 Wheel- Gearing. 



Part V. — Wheel and Screw Cut- 

 ting. 

 Part VL — Miscellaneous Subjects. 

 Part VII.— The Steam Engine. 

 Part VHI. — The Locomotive. 



" The Mechanic's Guide will aiiBwer its, purpose as completely as a whole series of 

 elaborate text-books."— Af/xjw^ younial. 



" Ought to have a place on the bookshelf of every Mechanic."— /«>». 



' Much instruction is here given without pedantry or pretension.'' — Builder. 



" A sine gud non to every practical Mechanic." — Railway Service Gazette. 



*.* This Work is specially intended for Self-Teachers, and places before the Reader a 

 concise and simple explanation of General Principles, together with Illustrations of their 

 adaptation to Practical Purposes. 



THOMSON (Spencer, M.D., L.R.C.S., Edinburgh, 



and J. C. STEELE, M.D., of Guy's Hospital) : 



A DICTIONARY OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE AND HOUSE- 

 HOLD SURGERY. Thoroughly Revised and in part Re- Written by 

 the Editors. With a Chapter on the Management of the Sick-room, and 

 many Hints for the Diet and Comfort of Invalids. With many new En- 

 gi-avings. Nineteenth Edition. Royal 8vo. Cloth, 10/6. 



WYLDE (James, formerly Lecturer on Natural 



Philosophy at the Polytechnic) : 



THE MAGIC OF SCIENCE : A Manual of Easy and Amusing 

 Scientific Experiments. With Steel Portrait of Faraday and many hun- 

 dred Engravings. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth gilt and gilt 

 edges, 5/. 



" Of priceless value to furnish work for idle hands during the holidays. A thousand 

 mysteries of Modem Science are here unfolded. We learn how to make Oxygen Gas, 

 how to construct a Galvanic Battery, how to gild a Medal by Electro-Plating, or to 

 reproduce one by Electrotyping, how to make a Microscope or take a Photograph ; 

 while the elements of Mechanics are explained so simply and clearly that the most un- 

 mechanical of minds must understand them. Such a work is deserving of the highest 

 praise. " — The Graphic. 



"To those who need to be allured into the paths of Natural Science by witnessing the 

 wonderful results that can- be produced by well-contrived experiments, we do not know 

 that we could recommend a more useful volume." — Athenaum. 



