Book of the Week. Rupert Everett reads Derek Jarman's vivid memoir of his life and the garden he made in Dungeness in the wake of his HIV diagnosis.

IN this book the author of “Modern High Explosives” has collected much useful information about the various explosives now in use. The greater part of the work is devoted to nitro-compounds ...

Appleton's “Dictionary of Engineering,” an American book, was published in the year 1851, and was the first to gather in cyclopedic form descriptions of products of American mechanical industry.