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The Steam-engine and its Inventors. By R. L. Galloway. (Mac-

millan and Co.)—Here we have the story of the steam-engine ones more told, and told carefully and clearly. Mr. Galloway does not take us back beyond the seventeenth century, but begins with the invention of the air-pump and the construction of pneumatic engines. In succeeding chapters he descr.bes the experimental engines of Pepin, Newcomen, and Savery, before giving full details concerning the further progress made by Watt, Trevithick, and their contem- poraries and immediate successors. The narrative is not continued to a later date than 1830. The volume is illustrated with woodcuts and plates.