PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Evening Star, Issue 12764, 17 March 1906, Page 5

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

» ■ The "Mechanical World" Pocket- Diary and Year Book for 1906 (John Chambers and Son) is a neatly-bound volume of 400 pages that contains n. variety of interesting and) useful information to mechanics, engineers, and others. There are numerous elaborate tables, illustrations, diagrams, and articles, -which cannot fail to attract the attention of those more immediately concerned, -whilst, as a -work of reference for the general reader, the Diary has exceptional merits. The lengthy index • provided Tvill be regarded as not the least among the welcome facilities to ready reference.

' Progress' (Bald-win and Rayward) is a Wellington publication, chiefly devoted to mechanical arte. As a purely local production, it is deterring of praise, the articles being timely and the illustrations many* and excellent. For the March number the motor is the prominent feature, and numerous photographs of motor cars containing well-known public men" are given. The articles include of tho Motor,' "The Sun's Heat,' *'What We Owe to Inventors,' 'Hints to Purchasers,' etc. There are the elements of permanency about 'Progress' that augur a useful career.