29 DECEMBER 1894, Page 26

Electrical Apparatus for Amateurs. Edited by Francis Chilton. Young. (Ward,

Lock, and Co.)—This little manual will be most acceptable to those ingenious mechanical youths who desire to introduce to their own homes the benefits of the telephone and the dectrio light. The book is divided into five parts, treating of the electric light and the telephone for domestic uses, and the making of magneto-electric machines, cylindrical electrical Machines, and the building of a coil. The reader is supposed to have a knowledge of carpentering, and to know something about "fitting" work with metals. Provided with these elementary principles, he may tackle the guide and forthwith banish gas and bell wires from his house.