graphic Engineers and Electricians in London and also a member of other scientific bodies both in the United States and in Europe. He has published 'A Text Book of Elementary Chemistry' (New Haven 1870) which has passed through eight editions and has been translated into the French and Japanese languages. It has met with great favor over 10000 copies were sold within five years of its publication and it has been adopted offi cially by many colleges in the United States and also at the University of Toki in Japan. Those who teach science know how hard it is to find a suitable text book on physics and those who have used his ' Chemistry ' will be glad to learn that Pro fessor Barker has in preparation a work on physics especially adapted to the wants of teachers. Japanese Carpentry. gives the following interesting account of how Japanese carpenters work : The workshop is a room perhaps twenty feet square the floor all covered with straw mats. We are accom modated with chairs. This is an unexpected and cer tainly a pleasant advantage. We had looked to sitting on the floor and accommodating our lower limbs as best we could. And now to give some idea of the manner of work ing if possible. There are four carpenters in the shop. Each squats on the floor with his bench—or what takes the place of the bench—and his smoking gear beside him. The bench is nothing more than a flat board of hard wood the dimensions some three or four feet long about eighteen inches wide and an inch thick. It lies of a stoneware bowl which is filled with wood ash in the center of which a few embers of charcoal are kept always alight. The bowl stands in a square box in one corner of which also stands a short piece of bambo into which is knocked the tobacco ash after smoking. The pipe has a wooden stem and a metal mouthpiece and bowl the latter very diminutive. A pinch of tobacco is put into the bowl the bowl is thrust among the live embers a single puff or at most tw are taken the ash is knocked
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