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BOOK REVIEWS 



Simon the Jester. By William J. Locke. 

 New York : John Lane Co. 



Suppose that your doctor told you that 

 you had but six months to live ; that you 

 were naturally of a sanguine disposition; 

 that you were even benevolently inclined. 

 What course would you adopt? This is 

 the problem which Mr. William Locke has 

 endeavored to solve in the latest of his 

 nervously, and even impudently written 

 novels. Mr. Locke's hero is given enough 

 to occupy his mind without worrying about 

 an early death. His attempts to win away 

 a friend of his from the attractions of a 

 woman whose influence he considers to be 

 decidedly for the worse, his own ultimate 

 subjugation to the woman's charms, his 

 complete cure by an operation at the end of 

 the period of six months, certainly add 

 complexities th^t afford abundant oppor- 

 tunity for Mr. Locke's witty imagination. 

 Some of Simon's troubles are removed by 

 marrying the woman and by taking up 

 wor!: in the East End. 



Like most of Mr. Lock's novels, the 

 charm of the story resides more in the 

 captivating vein in which it is written 

 rather than in the denouement itself, for it 

 must be confessed that as a weaver of plots, 

 Mr. Locke is not nearly so successful. 

 Even as a piece of writing, however, the 

 book falls short of The Beloved Vaga- 

 bond and Septimus. 



Concrete from Sand Molds. — By A. A. 



Houghton. New York: The Norman W. 



Henley Publishing Co., 1910. i6mo. 145 



pages ; fully illustrated. Price, $2.00. 



In this little book Mr. Houghton has 

 given a simply worded, thorough descrip- 

 tion of casting ornamental concrete ob- 

 jects from sand molds. In the rapidly 

 widening use of cement and concrete, the 

 lack of skilled workmen really competent to 

 handle this new and plastic material ren- 

 ders the publication of such a book timely. 

 The instructions given are so clear that 

 any man of reasonable intelligence and 

 skill ought to be able to make sculptural ob- 

 jects if he follows them. The book does 

 not presuppose any preliminary knowledge 

 on the part of the reader. It assumes that 

 the reader is entirely unacquainted with the 

 principles of concrete casting, for which 

 reason it should find favor with those to 

 whom concrete and its many possibilities 

 are new. 



Problems in Wood Turning. By Fred D. 

 Crawshaw, B.S., M.E. Peoria, 111.: 

 The Manual Arts Press, 1909. X2mo. 

 Price, 80 cents. 

 Wood turning is considerable of an art, 

 requiring quite a little knack of handling 

 the tools. The present work is an extremely 

 practical one, and the illustrations are the 

 best we have ever seen in a book on wood 

 turning. The various projects are admir- 

 ably worked out. 



Power, Heating and Ventilation. A 

 Treatise for Designing and Construct- 

 ing Engineers, Architects and Stu- 

 dents. By Charles L. Hubbard, B.S., 

 M.E. Part II, Power and Lighting. 

 First edition. Brattleboro, Vt. : The 

 Technical Press, 1909. 8vo. ; pp. 397. 

 Price, $2. 

 The author has produced a thoroughly 

 practical book which will be warmly wel- 

 comed by all engineers who have charge of 

 power and lighting plants. There is al- 

 ways room for a good book on this subject, 

 and the author has certainly produced a 

 most admirable treatise which is worthy 

 of a large sale. 



