4 MARCH 1882, Page 24

Mechanical Industries Explained, by Alexander Wall (W. and A. K.

Johnston), gives practical directions for the following of a great variety of arts and employments. Some sixty of these are enumerated and described, ranging over almost every province of human life. Here we may learn how to make bread or bricks, to construct balloons or pencils, to prune our trees and shrubs ; in fact, to provide life with all the outside furniture that it needs.