September, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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has ever been a land of prosperity and 

 plenty. To the traveler in France this 

 section of the country affords particular 

 advantages ; access is easy, owing to good 

 means of communication by a network of 

 railroads. The author has presented the 

 subject in a most interesting manner, and 

 the illustrations by Blanche McAIanus are 

 reproduced from paintings made upon the 

 spot. The book is handsomelv printed and 

 bound, and is most luxurious. 



Power. Heiating and Ventilation. A 

 Treatise for Designing and Construct- 

 ing Engineers, Architects and Stu- 

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

 M.E. Part I., Boiler Room Equip- 

 ment; first edition. Brattleboro, Vt. : 

 The Technical Press, 1908. 8vo. ; pp. 

 216. Price $2. 

 The matter contained in this volume had 

 its beginning in a pocket note book, which 

 in turn served as a basis for articles which 

 appeared in the Technical Press from time 

 to time. Occasional calls for reprints of 

 these articles led the author to select those 

 having the most practical value, and to 

 combine with them others to form suffi- 

 ciently new material to make up a treatise 

 on power and heating plants. The subject 

 ot power is treated more especially from 

 the steam side, but there is also reference 

 to the requirements of electric lighting and 

 the distribution of electric power. No at- 

 tempt has been made to cover central sta- 

 tion work, but plants similar to those found 

 in factories, office buildings and institutions. 

 The illustrations are excellent, the wax 

 process being used exclusively. 



The \\'onders of the Plant World. By 

 G. F. Scott ElHott, M.A., B.Sc, 

 F.L.S., F.R.G.S.. etc. Philadelphia: 

 Lippincott Company, 19 10 i2mo. ; 155 

 pp. Price, 75 cents. 

 The titles of the chapters of this book 

 are as follows : The Activity of Vegetables ; 

 On Savages. Doctors, and Plants ; A Tree's 

 Perilous Life : On Forests ; Flowers ; On 

 Underground Life; High Mountains, Arc- 

 tic Snows ; Scrub ; On Tea, Coffee, Choco- 

 late, and Tobacco ; On Deserts ; The Story 

 of the Fields. Many of them are of en- 

 trancing interest. One of the interesting 

 bits which we glean from it is that there 

 are 173,706 species of plants, namely ; 

 105,231 flowering plants; 2,819 ferns; 

 565 horsetails and club-mosses ; 4,609 

 mosses ; 3,041 liveworts, 5,600 lichens ; 

 39,663 fungi, and 12,178 seaweeds. These 

 figures are for 1892, but since that time 

 many new species have been described, so 

 that we may estimate that nearly 200,000 

 species are now known to mankind. This 

 is a sample of the many interesting feat- 

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Practical Engineer Electrical Pocket 

 Book and Diary for 1910. London : 

 Technical Publishing Company, Ltd. 

 i6mo. ; 570 pp. Price, cloth, is. net ; 

 leather, gilt, is. 6d. net; postage 2d. 

 extra. 

 This welcome annual visitor contains as 

 usual valuable statistics, data, rules, tables, 

 formulae, etc., and should be in the hands 

 of all who are interested in electrical mat- 

 ters. 



How To Make Tablets. By Frank Edel. 

 Boston : The Spatula Publishing Com- 

 pany. 24-page pamphlet. Price, 25 

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Among the products of modern pharmacy 

 none are more popular than compressed 

 tablets, and it is a very easy matter for 

 the ordinary druggist with a small expendi- 

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 those of the larger manufacturers. 



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