We have received the last half-yearly volume of Work :
the Illustrated Weekly Journal for Mechanics (Cassell and Co.) It contains the usual variety, quite beyond any power of description or enumeration, of instructions for all kinds of work, ornamental and useful. The utility of the periodical is unquestionable, nor is it wholly devoid of humour, to be found, naturally, in the "Answers to Correspondents." "C. H." wants to know whether a certain canoe, figured in our earlier number, could be made to go by steam ? "You would have rather a warm time of it," replies an expert, "sitting between the steam-pipe and funnel, with furnaces between your feet." The juxtaposition of the various inquiries makes some fun. In the same number another gentleman wants to know how his watch can be made to tick softly ; another inquires the use of a substance which turns out to be powdered lava ; and yet another how to straighten warped bagatelle cues. Work evidently meets many needs.
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