Messrs. MACMILLAN & CO.’S BOOKS FOR TECHNICAL CLASSES.
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DRAWING AND DESIGN. A Class Text-book for Beginners. By E. R. Taylor. Head Master of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. With Illustrations. Oblong crown 8vo, 5s. net.
ELEMENTS OF HANDICRAFT AND DESIGN. By W. A. S. Benson, M.A. Oxon. With Illustrations. Extra crown 8vo, 5s. net.
A TEXT-BOOK OF NEEDLEWORK, KNITTING AND CUTTING-OUT. With Methods of Teaching. By Miss Elizabeth Rosevear, Senior Teacher, and Lecturer on Needlework, Training College, Stockwell, London. With Original Illustrations and Sectional Diagrams. Crown 8vo, 6s.
SATURDAY REVIEW.—“A very useful book of reference for teachers of elementary sewing classes.”
SCHOOLMASTER.—“This is a remarkably clever and practical text-book on Needlework.”
QUEEN.—“It has been carefully prepared by an intellectual teacher, expert in the art of demonstration lessons, and anxious to impart to others the results of her experience as Senior Teacher and Lecturer at Stockwell Training College.”
A PRIMER OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY. By Edith A. Barnett and H. C. O’Neill. Pott 8vo, 1s.
SCOTSMAN.—“It is in its way unique among school books, touching the fringe of a great variety of subjects—hygiene, economics, physiology, cooking, medicine, and the sciences dealing with money. Of these it says a little that every housekeeper ought to know, and opens the way for more. It is an admirable school book.”
SATURDAY REVIEW.—“A capital little book for the young householder.”
A PRIMER OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE. Ten Lectures delivered for the Surrey County Council, by J. Wright, F.R.H.S. (Horticultural Instructor), Assistant Editor of the “Journal of Horticulture,” Editor of “Garden Work.” With 37 Illustrations. Pott 8vo, 1s.
SPECTATOR.—“A most useful little book, giving hints on various profitable kinds of cultivation. The contents were originally given as lectures, and it is an excellent idea to have them re-published.”
THE FOOD OF PLANTS. By A. P. Laurie, M.A., Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Adviser in Technical Education to the Bedfordshire County Council. Pott 8vo, 1s.
NATURE.—“This little book is intended to be an introduction to agriculture. The experiments are carefully chosen and described and can be performed with inexpensive materials, and the book, especially if used as the author suggests, in conjunction with a Chemistry Primer, can well be recommended as an interesting guide to the study of agriculture.”
A MANUAL OF DAIRY WORK. By Professor James Muir, of the Yorkshire College, Leeds. Pott 8vo, 1s.
SCHOOL BOARD CHRONICLE.—“A very useful and authoritative handbook.... A happy combination of scientific and of practical facts, explanations, and advice.”
THE GRAMMAR OF WOODWORK. A Graduated System of Manual Training for Elementary, Secondary, and Technical Schools, designed for the Pupils of the Whitechapel Craft-School by Walter E. Degerdon, Head Instructor in Woodwork at the Whitechapel Craft-School, formerly Woodwork Instructor in the Cambridge University Engineering Workshops. With a Preface by H. Llewellyn Smith. 4to, Paper Covers, 2s.
SCHOOLMASTER.—“The order of work is clearly mapped out, and the book will be found to be most useful for reference at the bench. We warmly recommend it to the notice of all manual instructors.”