Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 15th January 1886, Edition 1 of 1, Page 71

! SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , & CO'S NEW SCHOOL BOOKS . 4 ¦ Just published , large crown 8 vo . with numerous Illustrations , price 5 s . SCHOOL ELECTRICITY . By J . B . H . GORDON , B . A ., \ Author of'A Physical Treatise on Electricity and * Magnetism' { Second Edition , 2 vols . 8 vo . I Illustrated , £ 2 ] 2 s . f ; 'A Practical Treatise ' on-Electric Lighting * ( 8 vo . Illustrated , 18 s . ) \ EXTRACT FROM PREFACE . \\ In the the practical course state of the . last Special twenty branches years of the it have Science been of developed Electricity while has the © merged importance from of the otheac theoretical branches | to i ; 4 has dimiDished . The object of the present work is to give schoolboys a knowledge of electricity wMch , i however incomplete , shall bb of a useful kind . [\ For this purpose the vvirk commences with the study of electric'currents and Ohm ' s law , and the 1 teaching and to men is of employed the same in kind electric as that light which work I . ~~ have A . trthe been same in time the habit I have of g g iving iven such to members details of of theory my staff as , \\ : \ . will further , I ho en pe deavoured , show students to show that the a intimate science of connection electricity 1 which exerts exists and stimulates between electricity them to study and light it . I , heat htive , \ ; , and mechanical energy . i \\ ¦ ** " ' ^ " ^^^^ ^ mm ¦ ' ¦ —^^—¦ » i . i — . ¦¦ , i . .. . _ | . i — .. . . m m „ , „ i | , . .. I , | , _ - ¦ ifcn . — . - ^ . , ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ m ¦ . ! ^ ^ — ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ . I— ¦— I- i n m ~*^^ m- ' ¦ I " ^ - ^ - ^^^^ ^ ' m —^ ^ ^ Crown 8 vo . 330 pp . with very numerous Illustrations , half roan , cloth - sides ^ , 5 s . post-free , ;^ Second Edition . ; ' A SCHOOL COURSE ON HEAT . By "W . LAEDBN , M . A ., Assistant Master in Cheltenham College ; late Science Scholar , ~ Merton College , Oxford . ¦ — — ' . 4 Adopted at Rugby , Clifton , Bedford , Birmingham , and many other Public Schools * ¦ i * This treatise combines , within moderate limits , an elementary text-book for beginners with lessons for advanced classes . Equal attention is paid to the experimental and to the theoretical aspects of heat the subject for our . publi . . . c The schools book . ' will —The , we Spectator think , supp . ly the want of a suitable class-book on the subject of ! the language It covers and the the ground copiousness usually of occupi the ed illustrations by such treatises and analogies * but is emp distingui loyed/— shed The by Academy the simp . licity of ^ ' This most valuable compendium of experimental physics on the important subject of heat cannot \ fail , we think , of becoming a standard text-book . ' —Practical Teacher . \ ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS . EDITED BY E . B . IVAN MtJLLER , M . A * while A sufficientl view of the y work popular s and for lives genera of l English u « e . Cr thinkers . 8 vo . volumes , exhaustive of 180 enoug or 200 h for pp most . 3 educational * . 6 d . each . purposes , F Hamilton rancis Ba , b c y on , , b H y . Thomas S . Monck Fowler . ; . | ^ I ~ Shaftesbury Hartley and James and Hutcheson Mill , by , G b . y S . Fowler Bower . . I I I Adam Smith , by J . A . Farrer . I

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