Ed ANNUAL U. S. Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce (Dept, of Commerce). Foreign commerce and navigation of the United States, 1914. Wash. Govt. print. off. 1915.* 31cm. 380.5 Issued annually since 1849; before 1903 published by the Statistics bureau of the Treasury department. For full description, contents and prices of different volumes see U. S. Superintendent of documents. Price list 62. Freeman, William George, and Chandler, S. E. The world's commercial products; a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Lond. Pitman, 1907. 380 391 p. illus. 12 col. pl. 28cm. $3.50. Not alphabetically arranged, but each chapter treats of a food product. Slater, J. A. The world's commercial products, with French, German and Spanish equivalents for the names of the commercial products. Lond. Pitman, 1907. 163 p. 22cm. 2s. 6d. Lond. ATLASES AND GEOGRAPHY 380 Contents: (1) Commercial maps of the world; (2) World's sources of supply; (3) World's markets; (4) World's trade; (5) Statistical maps and diagrams of the chief commercial countries; (6) Natural resources and communications; (7) Commercial compendium of the world's principal commodities. mercantile Good maps and statistical tables. Ocean Have Chisholm, George Goudie. of commercial geography. 380 Handbook 8th ed. rev. and extended. Lond. and N. Y. Long- 380 Alphabetically arranged. DIRECTORIES 380 Contains a good deal of gazetteer information as well as directory material. Kelly's directory of merchants, manufacturers and shippers, and guide to the export and import, shipping and manuLond. facturing industries of the world. Kelly's direct. N. Y. Kelly pub. co., 1887380 1915.* v. 1-30. 26cm. 36s. per vol. U. S. Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce (Dept. of commerce). Trade directory of Central America and the West Indies., Wash. Govt. print. off. 1915. 256 p. 23cm. 60 cts. 3523 17754 ures. Bost. Estes [c1911] 211 p. 11cm. 75 cts. 332.6 Two "vest pocket" dictionaries, giving very brief information, part of which duplicates the somewhat fuller information contained in his Money and investments. Planned especially for the business man, but useful also in libraries for short definitions and explanations of special terms. Smith, Howard Irving. Smith's financial N. Y. Smith, 1903. 543 p. dictionary. Philadelphia commercial museum, 1915. 66 p. 23cm. 50 cts. 389 22cm. $7.50. U. S. Bureau of standards. Units of weight and measure. Definitions and tables of equivalents. Wash. Govt. print. off. 1914. 68 p. incl. tables. 27cm. (Circular of the Bureau of standards, no. 47) 15 cts. 389 FINANCE Manual of statistics, stock exchange handbook, 1879-1916. N. Y. Nicoll, 18791916.* v. 1-38. 19cm. $5 per vol. 332 Covers railroad, industrial and government securities, stock exchange quotations, grain and provisions, cotton, money, bank, and trust companies. Moody, John. Moody's analyses of investments, 1909-16. N. Y. Analyses publ. co. 1909-16.* V. 1-7. maps (part fold.) 29cm. $15 per part. 332.5 1st-3d annual issues, 1909-12, had title Analyses of railroad investments, and covered railroads only; 4th-7th annual issues, 1913-16, each in two parts: pt. 1, railroads; pt. 2, public utilities and industrials. Covers much the same ground as Moody's manual, described below under corporations, but gives ratings, which are not given in the manual. Rollins, Montgomery. Money and investments; a reference book for the use of those desiring information in the handling of money or the investment thereof. Bost. Estes [1910] 446 p. 22cm. $2. 332 A dictionary of financial terms and phrases, financial slang, etc. Contains brief encyclopedic articles on important financial practices, associations, interests and other allied subjects. 332 "Compiled for the purpose of assembling and interpreting the terms employed in financial and allied commercial affairs." It contains the financial and related terms in use in Great Britain as well as those in use in the United States. Summary of the monetary systems of the world, with a table of the monetary designations of the vari ous countries. U. S. National monetary commission. Publications of National monetary commission. Wash. Govt. print. off. 1911-12 [i. e., 1909-12] 23 V. map, facsims. tables, forms, diagrs. 23-392cm (v. 21, 30em; v. 22, 29em; v. 23, 39cm) Many folded tables, diagrs., etc. 332 Partial contents: v. 2, Financial laws of the United States, 1778-1909; v. 3, Digest of state banking laws; v. 4, Banking in United States before civil war; v. 5, The national banking system; v. 6, Clearing houses and credit instruments; v. 7, State banks, trust companies; v. 8, The English banking system; v. 9, Banking in Canada; v. 10-14, German banks; v. 15, Banking in France; v. 16, Banking in Belgium and Mexico; v. 17, Banking in Sweden and Switzerland; v. 18, Banking in Italy, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Japan; v. 21, Statistics for the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France. Moody's manual of railroads and corporation securities, 1st-17th annual number, 1900-16. N. Y. Moody manual company, 1900-16.* v. 1-17. illus., maps, fold. plans, tables. 23em. $20 per year. 332.6 Title varies: 1900, Moody's manual of industrial and miscellaneous securities; 1901-04, Moody's manual of corporation securities; 1905-16, Moody's manual of railroads and corporation securities. 1900-1912, one volume per year; from 1913 on, each annual issue is in two parts; pt. 1, Steam railroads; pt. 2, Industrials and public utilities. Poor's manual of industrials, 1910-16. N. Y. Poor, 1910-16.* v. 1-7. 23cm. $7.50 332.6 per vol. Gives for industrial corporations the same general type of information as that given for public service companies in the manual of public utilities (see below). Issues for 1910-12 included both the industrial and public utility corporations, but the latter were taken out in 1913 to form the Manual of pub. lic utilities and only the manufacturing, mining and miscellaneous companies left in the Manual of industrials. General index includes also names of merged companies. An appendix gives recent information about both railroads and public utilities received too late for insertion in the other manuals. Poor's manual of public utilities, street railway, gas, electric, water, power, telephone and telegraph companies, 1913-16. v. 1-4. N. Y. Poor, 1913-16.* maps. 23cm. $7.50 per vol. 332.6 A new separate manual for part of the material formerly included in Poor's manual of industrials and public utilities, giving, for each of the companies included, concise information about its history, mergers, property owned, earnings, securities owned or outstanding, balance sheets, personnel of management, etc. Names of merged companies are not given separate treatment in the body of the work but are brought out in the index. Complete issue for one year consists of an annual volume published in July, and eleven monthly sup plements containing recent information. Annual volume, 40 cts.; with monthly supplements, 75 cts. The authoritative manual for American postal information. Gives full information about postal rulings and regulations, postal savings banks, foreign mails, etc.; state, county, and alphabetical lists of offices; and lists of military commands, soldiers' homes, national cemeteries, navy yards, naval radio stations, marine corps barracks, etc. Scott stamp and coin co. Scott's standard postage stamp catalogue, 1917. N. Y. Scott stamp and coin co. 1917.* illus. 17cm. $1.25. SHIPPING 383 Exporters' encyclopædia, 1904-16. containing full and authentic information rela S. Title varies: 1894-1910, American street railway investments. Moody's manual of railroads and corporation securities, 1900-16. N. Y. Moody, 1900-16.* v. 1-17. illus. fold. maps, fold. plans, tables. 23cm. 332.6 From 1901 contains a section on railroads. Official guide of the railways and steam navigation lines of the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, also time-tables of railroads in Central America; issued under the auspices of the American association of passenger traffic officers. N. Y. Nat'l railway pub. co. 1916. 26cm. monthly; annual subs. $8; $1 per number. 385 Gives time-tables, many maps, indexes of stations; general index of railway stations shows on what road any given place is located. Poor's manual of the railroads of the United States. 1868/69-1916. N. Y. Poor, 1868-1916.* maps, tables. 23cm. $10 per vol. 38.5 Mackey, Albert Gallatin. Encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences, comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution; new and rev. ed. prepared under the direction and with the assistance of W. J. Hughan, by E. L. Hawkins. N. Y. Masonic hist. co., 1912. 2 v. illus. plates, ports. 27cm. $12. 366.1 Paged continuously, 943 p. New and revised articles are signed. Pronouncing dictionary and bibliography in vol. 2. Stevens, Albert Clark. Cyclopædia of fraternities; a compilation of existing authentic information and the results of original investigation as to more than six hundred secret societies in the United States. 2d ed. rev. N. Y. Treat, 1907. 444 P. illus. 25cm. $4.50. 366 BIBLIOGRAPHY Wolfstieg, August L. F. Bibliographie der freimaurerischen literatur, hrsg. im auftrage des Vereins deutscher freimaurer von August Wolfstieg. Burg b. M., Selbstverlag des Vereins deutscher freimaurer, zu bezichen durch A. Hopfer, 1911-13. 3 v. 27cm. 73.50m. 016.3661 Fesch, Paul. Bibliographie de la francmaconnerie et des sociétés secrètes, imprimés et manuscrits (langue francaise et langue latine) par Paul Fesch, Joseph Denais et René Lay. Paris, Société bibliographique, 1912-13. pts. 1-2. 25cm. 30 fr. per vol. 016.3661 Pts. 1-2, A-Compte-rendu. Latest に "Contains statistics relating to institutions for the care of children, societies for the protection and care of children, homes for the care of adults or adults and children, hospitals, dispensaries, and institutions for the blind and deaf, showing the name, location, and supervisory agency of each institution for which data was secured and the class of inmates received by each, the movement of institutional population, the number of employees, and certain statistics pertaining to equipment, financial, and property valuations, the whole forming a handbook and directory for use in organized or individual philanthropy." Letter of transmittal. Summary of state laws relating to the dependent classes, 1913. Wash. Govt. print. off. 1914. 346 p. 25cm. 40 cts. 360 Woods, Robert Archey. Handbook of settlements; ed. by Robert A. Woods and Albert J. Kennedy. N. Y. Charities pub. co. 1911. 326 p. 24cm. $1.50. 331.85 Presents an outline of the material facts,-founHation, organization, officers, activities and publications-about every settlement in the U. S., including non-residential neighborhood centers. Contains: (1) List of 413 American settlements, arranged alphabetically by states; (2) supplementary lists for Hawaii, Canada, England and Scotland; (3) a list of Continental European addresses from which information can be obtained; and (4) a list of discontinued settlements (Amer.). Continues the Bibliography of social settlements, published, up to 1905, by the College settlements association. The handbooks of the various charity organization societies, such as the New York charities directory, should also be used. Information about denominational charities can often be found in the denominational year books. EDUCATION Monroe, Paul. Cyclopedia of education, ed. by Paul Monroe, with the assistance of departmental editors and more than one thousand individual contributors. N. Y. Macmillan, 1911-13. 5 v. illus. pl. (partly col.) maps, port. 28cm. $5 per vol. 370.3 The best encyclopedia of education in English, with signed articles, good bibliographies and excellent illustrations. The scope of the work is general, including education in all countries and all periods, but American subjects receive somewhat fuller treatment than foreign topics. Analytical index in vol. 5 groups articles by larger subjects than those used in main alphabet. Editor is professor of history of education at Teachers college, Columbia university. Buisson, Ferdinand Édouard. Nouveau dictionnaire de pédagogie et d'instruction primaire. Paris, Hachette, 1911. 2087 p. 27cm. 30 fr. 370.3 Laurie, Arthur Pillans. The teacher's encyclopaedia of the theory, method, practice, history and development of education at home and abroad. Lond. Caxton, 1911-12. 7 v. illus. pl. (partly col.) 24cm 7s. 6d. per vol. 370.3 Not a dictionary, but a collection of monographs Con. on rather large topics, grouped by subjects. tains bibliographies. Rein, Wilhelm. Encyklopädisches handbuch der pädagogik. 2. aufl. Langensalza, Beyer, 1903-10. 10 v. 26cm. 18.50m. per •Lit Here U. S. Bureau of education. Digest of state laws relating to public education in force January 1, 1915. Comp. by William R. Hood, with the assistance of Stephen B. C Weeks and A. Sidney Ford. Wash. Govt print. off. 1916. 987 p. 23cm. (Bulletin, 1915, no. 47) 60 cts. 370.973 |