27 JUNE 1914, Page 12

Applied Mechanics for Engineers. By J. Duncan. (Mac- millan and

Co. 8s. 6d. net.)—" The problems met with in actual engineering practice often differ greatly from the text- book form of exercise." Mr. Duncan has made this fact the starting-point of his serviceable manual of the principles of mechanics for engineering students, whom he assumes to have only an elementary knowledge of mathematics.