8 SEPTEMBER 1900, Page 24

How to Make and How to Mend. By an Amateur

Mechanic. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s.• 6d ) -There is nothing, one might almost say, on which an "Amateur Mechanic" is not ready to instruct us. Aquariums, balloons, barrels, beds, bells (not bor,k8), boomerangs, bridges, are specimens from one letter only. Seriously, the b.ok is likely to be very uaeful. "How to Mend" especially is likely to be an indispensable knowledge when the Trade-Union rules come to be rigidly applied. Repairs which one workman was wont to execute now require half a dozen, a serious matter when they have to be brought five or six miles from a town.