The Industrial Self - Instructor. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This monument of industrious
compilation contains instructions in the leading branches of technical science and industrial arts and processes, and comprises building and mechanical design and con- struction, materials used in the arts and sciences, manufactures, chemical industry, art manufactures, rural work, and technical drawing and design, with innumerable technical notes, figures, and facts. It is most copiously illustrated with designs, drawings, and house-plans, besides many designs for decorative art, pottery, cabinet-work, and wood-work of all kinds. Every possible illustra- tion and reference which the technical workman may require seems to be embodied in these five volumes. Nor must it be supposed that agriculture is allowed to languish. There are a series of articles, exceedingly good, entitled respectively, "The Market-
Gardener," "The Farmer as a Technical Workman," "The Cottage and Villa Gardener," and "The Cattle-Breeder," which will show how much attention has been bestowed on the first of all sciences.
The main bulk of the work is, however, devoted to technological science and arts, and, in fact, all the branches of manufacturing and industrial enterprise which this country excels in. It is hardly necessary for us to say more than that all the articles bear the impress of an expert, and the illustrations are abundant and
accurate. There is a copious index, and a dictionary of archi- tectural terms and of industrial chemicals. The edition con- sists of five quarto volumes each containing four hundred pages. It is a marvellous work of its kind, and should do lasting credit to both writers and editors.
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