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ANALYSES OF BOOKS. 
Dyeing and Tissue Printing. By W. Crookes, F.R.S. ( Tech- 
nological Handbooks. Edited by H. Trueman Wood, 
Secretary of the Society of Arts.) London : George Bell 
and Sons. 
The Council of the City and Guilds Institute have felt it neces- 
sary to prepare a series of manuals specially designed for the use 
of students preparing for the Technological Examinations. 
Such works it was felt, whilst embodying the leading principles 
of the arts and manufactures in question, should not be too 
voluminous, and should above all admit of being offered at a 
reasonable price, so as to come within the reach of students of 
the working classes. Of this series the treatise before us is, we 
believe, the first to appear. It is a compaCt and closely printed 
volume of some 400 pages, and in conformity with the conditions 
laid down it contains neither illustrations of the plant and machi- 
nery used, nor patterns of dyed and printed goods. Such features, 
though admittedly useful, would have seriously raised the cost of 
the book. 
The author announces that his objeCt has been more to exhibit 
the general principles of the arts of dyeing and printing in their 
practical working than to enter into all their interminable 
minutice. For the latter purpose, indeed, a library rather than a 
manual would be needed. 
As far as possible, however, within the space at disposal an 
attempt has been made to give the main features of the different 
kinds of dyeing and styles of printing. Very various methods as 
used in different establishments and different countries have been 
given. The use of the coal-tar colours which, as the author 
remarks, have at once “ extended, simplified, and rationalised 
the tinctorial arts,” has been shown in a number of well-seleCted 
examples. 
It has been no part of the objeCt of the work to give instruc- 
tions in general chemistry. Such information, however useful 
or rather necessary, the students of the Institute can obtain from 
some of the many good and cheap manuals of chemistry which 
appeared of late years, and of which it would be almost invidious 
to name one in preference to others. 
As a matter of course no book — as indeed is here fully admitted 
— can of itself make any man a dyer or a printer. For this 
purpose practical experience is necessary. But there is experi- 
ence and experience. There are men who have worked for 
many years in dye-works and who can produce a certain round 
