21 73. small boats. illus. 8°. NEW TECHNICAL BOOKS: The book of the sailboat; how to rig, sail and handle 192 p. VXH Tells what kind of a craft is best suited to a particular purpose, all about its parts and the various rigs, something about knots and splices, with a chapter on construction. Has directions for sailing and for up-keep. There is also a useful glossary of nautical terms. 74. Wiles, Robert. Cuban cane sugar a sketch of the industry, from soil to sack, together with a survey of the circumstances which combine to make Cuba the sugar bowl of the world. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1916. 3 p.l., 85 p., 6 pl. 12°. tables. VTL Tells the layman in an entertaining way the salient facts about sugar its increasing use as a food, something about its manufacture, a comparison of the commercial possibilities of cane as against beet sugar, and the importance of Cuba as a source of supply. 75. *Woodroffe, Joseph Froude. The rubber industry of the Amazon, and how its supremacy can be maintained; based on the experience of Joseph F. Woodroffe...edited and with additions by Harold Hamel Smith...with a foreword on the LatinAmerican Indian, by Viscount Bryce... [London:] J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd., 1915. 435 p., 25 pl., 1 port. 8°. illus. VMV Over 400 pages devoted largely to the labor aspect of the problem, with considerable information relative to the technology of rubber preparation. Suggests that the industry be made subsidiary to agriculture, stock-raising, and other industries; that Chinese, Japanese, and other labor be introduced to clear and settle the lands; that the flat open lands be ditched, drained and cultivated, and that the forest areas be cleared and drained. Mr. Smith, the editor, discusses the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine as affecting the industry. The work is well illustrated and is provided with a bibliography and an exceptionally complete index. Reviewed in India Rubber World, Jan., 1916, p. 175. INDEX Numbers refer to individual entries not to pages. Aeronautics, 68. Ammonia, 12. Assaying, 57. Automobiles, 1-2. Baking, 65. Benzol, 7. Boats, 72-73. Building construction, 3-5. Cartridge manufacture, 41. Coal distillation, 7. Compass, Aeronautical, 68. Diesel engine, 34, 51. Drawing, 43. Driers, 6. Electric lighting, Economics of, 27, 32. Electric power, Economics of, 27, 32. Electric power transmission, 26. Electric railways, 28. Electric wiring, 29. Electrical engineering, 24-30. Engineering, 21. Engineering handbooks, 47. Engines, Internal combustion, 1, 34, 45-46, 50-51. Engines, Traction, 36. Explosives, 13. Forging, 39. Galvanizing, 38. Gas manufacture, 7-8, 14-15. Gold, 61. Heating and ventilation, 44. Hydraulic tables, 20. India-rubber, 75. Iron, 62. Irrigation, 22. Laundry work, 66. Manual training, 33, 39. Military science, 41, 42, 52-56. Moving pictures, 71. Packing houses, 4. Paper, 67. Petroleum, 9, 35. Poles, 26. Projectiles, 42. Refrigeration and cold storage, 4. Safety appliances, 31. Sewerage, 19. Springs, Mechanical, 49. Steel, 58, 62. Sugar, 74. Surveying, 18. Textiles, 63-64. Thermodynamics, 37. Tinning, 38. Toys, 69-70. Water power, 23. Weirs, 17. Welding, 48. |