Celebrated Mechanics and their Achievements, by F. M. Holmes (S.
W. Partridge), tells again the more or less familiar stories of
how lighthouses were built, harbours made, canals excavated, the steam-hammer invented, and other things, wonderful in fact, though now become quite familiar, were achieved.—An expanded form of the same book, by the same author, and published by the
same firm, is Great Works and Great Men.—Industrial Explorings in and around London, by R. Andom (J. Clarke and Co.), describes
how the writer visited and made himself acquainted with various manufacturing processes. The names make a sufficiently mis- cellaneous list, beginning with pianos and ending with sweets
The trade in these last seems to be highly prosperous. It is the last thing that a man denies himself, and the first thing that he begins to spend his money upon. Among the other subjects are trams, paper, and pottery. Mr. Andom will be found an enter- taining guide.
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