Bent Iron Work, Basket Work, Taxidermy. Handicraft series, edited by Paul N. Hasluck, 160 pp. 4x7 inches, 50 cents each. Cassell & Co., Ltd. London and New York. The Handicraft series of manuals, in which the above mentioned three books are included, present the several subjects upon which they treat in a plainly written and well illustrated manner. Nineteen different manuals are included in the series, a list of which may be obtained by application to the publishers. Many of them are upon subjects which are of undoubted interest to readers of this magazine, and are recommended as being of much value and interest.

Who Discovered Photography. George E. Brown and C. W. Canfield, Photo-Miniature, 25 cents. Tennant & Ward, New York. All photographers will find this number of much interest. The historic development of photography is traced from the beginning to the present day, and many parts have all the interest of romance, while being but the presentation of facts of the past. It could well be taken up as supplementary reading in manual training schools.

The Technical World is the name given to a new monthly magazine published by the American School of Correspondence, Chicago, 111. As its name implies, it is of a technical character, but not to such an extent as to be without interest to the general reader. The various subjects presented in the first number include:-"Radium, The Milling Machine, Wireless Telegraphy, Exhaust Steam Heating," and miscellaneous subjects in similar lines. The large number of eminent writers available to the publishers will enable them to make the magazine of undoubted interest to those desirous of following the progress of scientific and industrial affairs.