27 DECEMBER 1884, Page 24

Cotton-Spinning. By Richard Marsden. (Bell and Sons.)—After an introductory chapter,

in which we have a short record of cotton- spinning in the past, followed by a second which describes the principal varieties of the cotton-plant, as it is grown in various parts of the world for the purposes of commerce, we pass to the main subject of this treatise,--the mill, and the processes which go on within it. The description of these is continually illustrated, as it mast needs be, by the history of the past. The progress of invention does not stand still, and the machines of to-day have a long, if not a very ancient, ancestry. Useful practical hints complete the volume, which is well furnished throughout with illustrations.