Modern Architecture Complete Perspective Course Notes on Carpentry and Joinery

Abstract

THE first of these three books suffers from the too prevalent custom of assigning a title to a book that conveys the idea of a greater scope and value than the contents can candidly be said to justify. In the preface the author fairly states the origin of the bulk of the book in a course of lectures delivered to a class of architectural students, not, it is true, previously published, but which, we venture to think, should have appeared in their primary form, possessing all the interest and actuality that such deliverances would have had; without being dressed up with a title that leads the reader to expect a more serious treatment of such an extensive subject as modern architecture.

Modern Architecture.

A book for architects and the public. By H. H. Statham., Editor of the Builder, &c. 8vo, pp. 275. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1897.)

Complete Perspective Course.

Britannia Series. By J. Humphrey Spanton. 8vo, pp. 282. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1898.)

Notes on Carpentry and Joinery.

By Thomas Jay Evans. 8vo, pp. 396. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1897.)