1 AUGUST 1863, Page 24

Brief Biographies of Inventors of Machines for the Manufacture of

Textile Fabrics. By Bennet Wooderoft, F.R.S. (Longmans.)-The title of this small volume conveys all the information that can possibly be required respecting the nature of its contents. The inventors whom Mr. Woodcroft delights to honour are John Kay, Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton, Edmund Cartwright, Joseph M. Jacquard, William Radcliffe, Richard Roberts, Joshua Hellmann, and Lewis Paul. The book seems designed as a companion to a series of engraved portraits of these individuals, with which Messrs. Agnew and Sons will be happy to supply the public to any extent.