Notes on Building Construction, Part U. (Rivingtons), have been specially
prepared to meet the requirements of students preparing for the examinations of the Science and Art Departments. The syllabus of subjects has been accordingly taken to foina the plan of the work. There has been a long-felt want for a treatise of this description, no elementary work containing descriptions of the whole of the building having ever been published. A student, therefore would have to consult, say, Seddon and Pasley for the brick-work, Tredgold or Newland for joinery, and Fairbairn if required to know the application of iron girders in roofing. A theoretical knowledge may now be obtained from these notes alone, and to an architect commencing his studies, or an intelligent builder, they will be invaluable. The value of the work is mach enhanced by the admirable illustrations with which the work abounds.
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