Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Part 16

The Bedroom and Dressing-Room; Sleep; the Toilet; Dress; Buying Clothes; Outfits; Fancy Dress.

The Nursery.--The Room; Clothing; Was.h.i.+ng; Exercise; Sleep; Feeding; Teething; Illness; Home Training.

The Sick-Room.--The Room; the Nurse; the Bed; Sick Room Accessories; Feeding Patients; Invalid Dishes and Drinks; Administering Physic; Domestic Remedies; Accidents and Emergencies; Bandaging; Burns; Carrying Injured Persons; Wounds; Drowning; Fits; Frost-bites; Poisons and Antidotes; Sunstroke; Common Complaints; Disinfection, etc.

The Bath-Room.--Bathing in General; Management of Hot-Water System.

The Laundry.--Small Domestic Was.h.i.+ng Machines, and methods of getting up linen, Fitting up and Working a Steam Laundry.

The School-Room.--The Room and its Fittings; Teaching, etc.

The Playground.--Air and Exercise; Training; Outdoor Games and Sports.

The Workroom.--Darning, Patching, and Mending Garments.

The Library.--Care of Books.

The Garden.--Calendar of Operations for Lawn, Flower Garden, and Kitchen Garden.

The Farmyard.--Management of the Horse, Cow, Pig, Poultry, Bees, etc., etc.

Small Motors.--A description of the various small Engines useful for domestic purposes, from 1 man to 1 horse power, worked by various methods, such as Electric Engines, Gas Engines, Petroleum Engines, Steam Engines, Condensing Engines, Water Power, Wind Power, and the various methods of working and managing them.

Household Law.--The Law relating to Landlords and Tenants, Lodgers, Servants, Parochial Authorities, Juries, Insurance, Nuisance, etc.

_On Designing Belt Gearing_. By E. J. COWLING WELCH, Mem. Inst. Mech.

Engineers, Author of 'Designing Valve Gearing.' Fcap. 8vo, sewed, 6_d._

_A Handbook of Formulae, Tables, and Memoranda, for Architectural Surveyors and others engaged in Building._ By J. T. HURST, C.E.

Fourteenth edition, royal 32mo, roan, 5_s._

"It is no disparagement to the many excellent publications we refer to, to say that in our opinion this little pocket-book of Hurst's is the very best of them all, without any exception. It would be useless to attempt a recapitulation of the contents, for it appears to contain almost _everything_ that anyone connected with building could require, and, best of all, made up in a compact form for carrying in the pocket, measuring only 5 in. by 3 in., and about 3/4 in. thick, in a limp cover. We congratulate the author on the success of his laborious and practically compiled little book, which has received unqualified and deserved praise from every professional person to whom we have shown it."--_The Dublin Builder._

_Tabulated Weights of Angle, Tee, Bulb, Round, Square, and Flat Iron and Steel_, and other information for the use of Naval Architects and s.h.i.+pbuilders. By C. H. JORDAN, M.I.N.A. Fourth edition, 32mo, cloth, 2_s._ 6_d._

_A Complete Set of Contract Doc.u.ments for a Country Lodge_, comprising Drawings, Specifications, Dimensions (for quant.i.ties), Abstracts, Bill of Quant.i.ties, Form of Tender and Contract, with Notes by J. LEANING, printed in facsimile of the original doc.u.ments, on single sheets fcap., in paper case, 10_s._

_A Practical Treatise on Heat, as applied to the Useful Arts_; for the Use of Engineers, Architects, &c. By THOMAS BOX. _With 14 plates._ Sixth edition, crown 8vo, cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._

_A Descriptive Treatise on Mathematical Drawing Instruments_: their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon Drawing and Colouring. By W. F.

STANLEY, M.R.I. Sixth edition, _with numerous ill.u.s.trations_, crown 8vo, cloth, 5_s._

_Quant.i.ty Surveying._ By J. LEANING. With 42 ill.u.s.trations. Second edition, revised, crown 8vo, cloth, 9_s._

_Contents:_

A complete Explanation of the London Practice.

General Instructions.

Order of Taking Off.

Modes of Measurement of the various Trades.

Use and Waste.

Ventilation and Warming.

Credits, with various Examples of Treatment.

Abbreviations.

Squaring the Dimensions.

Abstracting, with Examples in ill.u.s.tration of each Trade.

Billing.

Examples of Preambles to each Trade.

Form for a Bill of Quant.i.ties.

Do. Bill of Credits.

Do. Bill for Alternative Estimate.

Restorations and Repairs, and Form of Bill.

Variations before Acceptance of Tender.

Errors in a Builder's Estimate.

Schedule of Prices.

Form of Schedule of Prices.

a.n.a.lysis of Schedule of Prices.

Adjustment of Accounts.

Form of a Bill of Variations.

Remarks on Specifications.

Prices and Valuation of Work, with Examples and Remarks upon each Trade.

The Law as it affects Quant.i.ty Surveyors, with Law Reports.

Taking Off after the Old Method.

Northern Practice. The General Statement of the Methods recommended by the Manchester Society of Architects for taking Quant.i.ties.

Examples of Collections.

Examples of "Taking Off" in each Trade.

Remarks on the Past and Present Methods of Estimating.

_Spons' Architects' and Builders' Price Book, with useful Memoranda._ Edited by W. YOUNG, Architect. Crown 8vo, cloth, red edges, 3_s._ 6_d._ _Published annually._ Seventeenth edition. Now ready.

_Long-Span Railway Bridges_, comprising Investigations of the Comparative Theoretical and Practical Advantages of the various adopted or proposed Type Systems of Construction, with numerous Formulae and Tables giving the weight of Iron or Steel required in Bridges from 300 feet to the limiting Spans; to which are added similar Investigations and Tables relating to Short-span Railway Bridges. Second and revised edition. By B. BAKER, a.s.soc. Inst. C.E. _Plates_, crown 8vo, cloth, 5_s._

_Elementary Theory and Calculation of Iron Bridges and Roofs._ By AUGUST RITTER, Ph.D., Professor at the Polytechnic School at Aix-la-Chapelle. Translated from the third German edition, by H. R.

SANKEY, Capt. R.E. With 500 _ill.u.s.trations_, 8vo, cloth, 15_s._

_The Elementary Principles of Carpentry._ By THOMAS TREDGOLD. Revised from the original edition, and partly re-written, by JOHN THOMAS HURST.

Contained in 517 pages of letter-press, and _ill.u.s.trated with 48 plates and 150 wood engravings_. Sixth edition, reprinted from the third, crown 8vo, cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._

Section I. On the Equality and Distribution of Forces--Section II.

Resistance of Timber--Section III. Construction of Floors--Section IV. Construction of Roofs--Section V. Construction of Domes and Cupolas--Section VI. Construction of Part.i.tions--Section VII.

Scaffolds, Staging, and Gantries--Section VIII. Construction of Centres for Bridges--Section IX. Coffer-dams, Shoring, and Strutting--Section X. Wooden Bridges and Viaducts--Section XI.

Joints, Straps, and other Fastenings--Section XII. Timber.

_The Builder's Clerk_: a Guide to the Management of a Builder's Business. By THOMAS BALES. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 1_s._ 6_d._

_Practical Gold-Mining_: a Comprehensive Treatise on the Origin and Occurrence of Gold-bearing Gravels, Rocks and Ores, and the methods by which the Gold is extracted. By C. G. WARNFORD LOCK, co-Author of 'Gold: its Occurrence and Extraction.' _With 8 plates and 275 engravings in the text_, royal 8vo, cloth, 2_l._ 2_s._

_Hot Water Supply_: A Practical Treatise upon the Fitting of Circulating Apparatus in connection with Kitchen Range and other Boilers, to supply Hot Water for Domestic and General Purposes. With a Chapter upon Estimating. _Fully ill.u.s.trated_, crown 8vo, cloth, 3_s._