30 JUNE 1894, Page 39

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Tower Bridge. By C. Tuit. (The Engineer.)—In this volume Mr. Tuit tells the story of this great work "from the date of the earliest project to the present time." Full particulars are given, plans of all kinds, photographs of the work as it has appeared at different stages, details of the ornament which has been liberally employed. Scarcely less interesting are the early designs, for the present form has not been arrived at without much previous effort, and the description of similar works planned or executed in other places. No less than eight contracts have been made. The quantities of materials employed are indeed vast,-235,000 cubic feet of granite and other stone, 20,000 tons of cement, 70,000 cubic yards of concrete, 31,000 bricks, and 14,000 tons of iron and steel, not less altogether, we suppose, than 300,000 tons weight.