Alfred Yarrow: his Life and Work

Abstract

LADY YARROW has given us a most interesting and genial account of the life and work of Sir Alfred Yarrow and has successfully portrayed, inhappy and engaging style, a character which Smiles would assuredly havebeen glad to utilise in his examples of “Self Help,” and to have included in his “Lives of the Engineers.” She has succeeded in showing not only the shrewd business capacity of Sir Alfred, but also his remarkable ability to apply science to the needs of the great industry with which he was chiefly associated, especially in those branches in which he was in the front rank of pioneers for a very long period. His admirationfor the attainments and; discoveries of the man of science stands high, but it| is equalled by his appreciation of the sound sense and fertility of resource of the skilful manual worker; iand a perusal of the book will indicate the reasons for this being in the forefront of those who have derived advantage from the happy combination of the two.

Alfred Yarrow: his Life and Work.

Compiled by Eleanor C. Barnes. (Lady Yarrow). Pp. xv + 328 + 78 plates. (London: E. Arnold and Co., 1923.) 10s. 6d. net.