Weirs, discharge of water over, 285.
Welding composition, 201.

Stucco, fire-proof, for wood, 268; for Wheel and axle, the, 65.

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The object of this work is to furnish a practical manual of Designs for "Homes for the People," from a twenty-five dollar cottage to a twenty thousand dollar palace, giving estimates as to cost, furnishing plans and specifications, and treating upon the rudiments of the arts called into exercise by the practice of cottage building. From its practical character it must become a desirable text-book to the builder and mechanic, as well as to those contemplating building, either in ornamental or plain styles.

This work is adapted to supply the wants of all classes in every grade of living, from the humblest cottage to the stately mansion, who are interested in the erection of beautiful and convenient houses. The estimated cost is given to each rospective plan, so that the expenses of each building may be accurately determined on. Every effort has been made to add to its intrinsic value-consistently with its practical character-by giving it variety, in collecting all new facts relating to recent improvements in the art of WARMING and VENTILATION, GARDENING, &c., &c.

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Opinions of the Leading Journals.

This volume is a valuable contribution to the art of rural architecture. It is illustrated with a Lumber of excellent engravings representing various styles of cottages, and in the full details and clear descriptions of each style, which it gives, it will be found to be a safe guide both for taste and economy.---Courier and Enquirer.

Architectural treatises of more pretension than this have frequently passed under our notice, but we remember few volumes of the kind that are likely to be so useful to the public. Mr. Bullock furnishes designs of cottages in every style, and at every cost, from $25 up to $25,000, and supplies minute plans and specifications, estimates as to cost, &c. He also teaches very fully and intelli gently the rudiments of the arts employed in cottage building.---Commercial Advertiser.

This work contains twenty one chapters of souud sense, twenty illustrations proper, and about sixty plans and illustrations of designs. Mr. Bullock is an experienced writer upon matters of architecture and art in general, and his instructions may be firmly relied upon-drawn as they are from hard study and fruitful familiarity.---Buffalo Express.

Mr. Bullock is favorably known as a clever writer on architectural subjects, and his books have always been popular. This handsome volume is profusely illustrated with designs in every style for cottage residences. The letter press descriptions and instructions are full, concise, and cleat, and render the treatise in our opinion useful not only to those about to erect country homes for them selves, but to professional builders who may be called upon to undertake such works for others.N. Y. Express.

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One object of this truly excellent book is to encourage the spirit of improvement-to aid the cul tivation of agricultural taste in the poor man's home, and to teach all the art of combining the useful with the tasteful and elegant.---Pittsburg Token.

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An Indispensible Work for the Mechanic, the Engineer & the Artist

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BOOK OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ;

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Mechanical, Engineering & Architectural Drawing.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF THE

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GENERAL CONTENTS:

LINEAR DRAWING.—THE STUDY OF PROJECTION.—ON COLOURING SECTIONS WITH AP. PLICATIONS.—THE INTERSECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SURFACES, WITH APPLICATIONS. THE STUDY AND CONSTRUCTION OF TOOTHED GEAR.-ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF SHADOWS.-APPLICATION OF SHADOWS TO TOOTHED GEAR. THE CUTTING AND SHAPING OF MASONRY.—THE STUDY OF MACHINERY AND SKETCHING.—OBLIQUE PROJECTIONS.—PARALLEL PERSPECTIVE.-TRUE PERSPECTIVE.—EXAMPLES OF FIN ISHED DRAWINGS OF MACHINERY.—DRAWING INSTRUMENTS

In one quarto volume, containing 105 pages of Steel Plates, 75 Wood Engravings, and 200 pages of Letterpress. Bound in cloth, $6.50 ; in half Turkey, $8.00.

This superb work has been prepared by its distinguished Editor to meet the requirements so long felt of a comprehensive treatise on INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. His aim has been to present the well-known French work in a much improved English form, and at a price Drought within the reach of all.

Every Principal, Mechanic, Builder, Machinist, Engineer, and Artist, has felt the want of a complete course of Industrial Design-not a mere collection of the first principles of Geometrical Drawing, but a work that would be useful as well in Schools and Colleges as in the Workshop and Drawing Offices of the Engineer and Architect.

The special mission of the PRACTICAL DRAUGHTSMAN'S BOOK OF INDUSTRIAL DE SIGN may almost be gathered from its title-page. It is intended to furnish gradually de veloped lessons in Geometrical Drawing, applied directly to the various branches of the Industrial Arts: comprehending LINEAR DESIGN proper; ISOMETRICAL PERSPECTIVE, or the study of Projections; the Drawing of TOOTHED WHEELS and ECCENTRICS: with SHADOWING and COLOURING OBLIQUE PROJECTIONS; and the study of PARAL LEL and EXACT PERSPECTIVE: each division being accompanied by special applications to the extensive ranges of MECHANICS, ARCHITECTURE, FOUNDRY-WORKS, CARPENTRY, JOINERY, METAL MANUFACTURES generally, HYDRAULICS, the construction of STEAM ENGINES, and MILL-WORK. In its compilation, the feeble attraction generally offered to students in elementary form has been carefully considered; and after every geometrical problem, a practical example of its application has been added, to facilitate its comprehension and increase its value. A series of PLATES, marked, A, B, &c., are also interspersed throughout the work, as examples of finished drawings of machinery.The Letterpress relating to these Plates, together with an illustrated chapter on DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, forms an appropriate Appendix to the Volume. The general explanatory text embraces not only a description of the objects and their movements, but also tables and practical rules, more particularly those relating to the dimensions of the principal details of machinery, as facilitating actual construction.

From W. A. Norton, Esq., Professor of Civil Engineering in Yale College. In the Practical Draughtsman we at last have a work on Industrial design, at the same time suliciently comprehensive in its scope and minute in its detail to meet the wants of the student of ea gineering. My opinion of its merits is abundantly indicated by the fact that I have adopted it as a text-book in the School of Engineering attached to Yale College. So far as I have made use of it, I find that it meets my expectations, and doubt not that it will give general satisfaction, if introduced nto our Engineering and Industrial Schools. W. A. NORTON,

Professor of Civil Engineering in Yale College.

From the Practical Mechanic's Journal, (Glasgow.)

Such a book in English was greatly needed. We possess for the first time in our Literature a standard work, in many respects greatly superior to the French volume. Every page is full of pleas ant instruction, and demonstrates competent intelligence and excessive care. The original work is a class-book in the Industrial Schools on the continent, and the present English form of it will hold a high place wherever its subject is studied, either in our own lands or in the United States. It is from its cheapness one of the few good books which every principal should possess as a work of reference, and which every learner should have readily accessible for constant study.

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