New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-01
The Ar, Of Boo,r-,Instns.

3 ne hrt OF BooI-inhihS-
We have been interested IL examining snd com
pi-ing TWO recent WORKS on =. Tie ArF Of "eeF-
isg'-one- hitherto noticed II our columns %
CzIsroy G GI1aor. OF this SAFE he o;her- lja-t
received. By GEORGE WzIrE, Glasgow. Scotland
The American work was issued n his City fully
eighteen months ago the British was tirs, received
here OF the % ins; and of course FIST saw the light
soma time in Mag Eacn i g srse aad lair octsvo
the American Of SIS pages beside Plates; The
British Of 362 pages. The la:te: has ;Tsu'y Plates
and 4 Y. GOD Engrayiass ". Glroys has II 81
some $50 OK 20 Plates Figures ana Examples .Llas-
.rg,ing evsry department and process Of Wearing.
especially III fancy or figured work while Nj
Whites Is confined 10 plain Wearing OILY, ard ne
proposes another volume price - 5ol 10 enliEhien
manufacturers with regard 10 fancy wearing oy
power.
But while the works have some ostersib!e resen-
dances, their essential characters differ very wide
~ NJ. GIl,oy r, with some slight wanderincs Into
the domain of the antiqusry OF me hGmoTist, Is EN-
phatically an original and practical work and one OF
The highest valae 10 all engaged al all extensively in
Weaving while NJ. Whites may properly be d.
vided or assorted into three parts or parcels as o
lows
:. The large portion which he las stolen mani
testify from Gilroy whom he never nance u07 seems
10 know is in existence
, a portion nesrty as large .Plat-s excepted
which he has borrowed and reheshed from the well
known works OF I re and Baines, whom be conde-
scends TO recognize bat lsbors TO dispasage while
he feeces them
,. His own notions and diluiiOns. generally of
puerile and utterly useless character, necessarily
t5:cng on the careful readers attention the disch
originally provoked By an earlier snd less impuden
plagiarist, viz
Tho mart You sole Ike the best:
Take courage, then ana ''ed! ne TsS'.
Had Mr.. White seen fl 10 steal Mr. Gilroy's book
bodily. he would have presented volume worth the
manufacturers buying, whether be deserved pay
for il or not; bat as i. is he has only spoiled some
very good paper and earned most unenv liable no
toriety.
OF his twenty Steel Plates four are devoted to
2iIereu. views of his own powerloom exclusively,
being merely plain muslin loom, containing nothing
new another is his check loom three are taken di
rectly from Gilroy one may be iound in IRE; while
nearly all the remainder well known or useless,
better Inventions Ofhis Wood Engravings scarce
IL one Of the least use does not appear among the
far larger number in Gilroy's work, some OF them
being turned end for end or the other side up, or
given Two or more together, Win the Paipao'e
intent of concealing their source. several OF TIE
other. lust as useless and childish as would be
The inlrodu c,icn OF drawings OF common hoe rake
snsde &c. into new treatise on Scientic ASricul.
lure or an ordinary frying pan, shovel and tonge,
&c. into an essay on Cookery.
We are tempted TO make an extract from Mr..
Whites Intr0duction 10 show how little the man
knows Of the busipers in regard TO which be as
spros The part of teacher, else how grossly inca
psbe be is of telling what be does know. The fol-
lowing passage Will seem 10 The intelligent manu-
facturer to have been written for publication ten or
twenty years ago. And yet despite the positive
assertions OF the last paragraph quoted, it is certain
tina, This author had G:!roys book before him when
he prepared his owp for the press Hear him:
.weavine camprehensively considered, however. is
a difficult subject for machinery. The motons them
teves reciprocatDga kind OF motion not easily pro-
cuccd without Injurious disturbance tom tue re-
ection arising from the irrerusrly Of the resistance
The yarn therefore may be broken IN weaving from the
motions according the IN which they are per
formed and botn breassge aud bad work rnsy resali
from inad1ptd,i0z OF the tools.
In spinning again. almost The whole OF the e;nfnly
drought 0m agency is the expression oil two Ideas
namely GrGBgk admirably brought out by iuted rollers
and INIT the ores forming the threads In toe drcc
ton their sXcs Tee oiions IN spinning are there
fore rotaory and Tree from The disturbing influences Al
tending the application Of motion to weaving. Hence
the strain the yarn in weaving is relatively great ana
accordingly while machinery has done almost al! ina!
can be expected ircn least all az present required
Off in n.spiunpg-n weaving, although the power
loom has been than fifty years in use from the time
its being invented oy Doctor Cartwright mas as ytt
established its fnence those fabrics only in nhtct
breakoge IS be GpprfhendeG from The pt,trmdnce ~
the motions The finer departments vi goods which re
our- nice adaptation "A the means hGCe htr0 ben IN
dgproactd5ie By so great is The difference between the
motions performed IN weaving aud the motions rs
adapted 10 the weaving For although cloth may be made
bv both modes of working the effects IFS object ia
dependence the absolute strength OF the where
as BY the other the yarn subjected to the least posi-
bic strain in weaving. This adaptation is. hercre the
trpresscu 81 the ART Of rGrtsS by nhic Tie MOTIONS are
adap,sd 10 The yarn and The tools 10 both.
Tine Power Loom from the fret, has been chiefly In
the hands OF those who by circumstances were necessa
rily title acquainted with wearing a, an art WeaVers
in general the greatest knowledge OF weaving
have the least acquaintance with machinery aud me
chancs 10 whom the auperintendence OF weaving "
power properly belongs are necessarily Ignorant o'
weaving. There Is thus want oil communication oe
tween iheu by which the progress OF power loom nv"
chinery has been very much retarded ana hence gen
,ral eoirssness Of grssiop efdrdeo'-ss gu ts SORT
agency cs applied 10 treGot"t':
No attempt has been made in books 10 communicate
,b. art Treatiscs on weaving have hitherto, conhaed
themselves 10 the description of the cordnea Tor the
formation of figures In fancy weaving, ard t"eeAngs
ar calculations connected with the warp Tie art OF
managing the yarn the loom has been left IN the hahus
OF the weavers, untouched ny theih-
We might quote passages from nearly every page
equally mistaken or puerile with this. Thus on
page 81, he gravely tells bis readers that
IN loom
, End of .ork TO rsare al oil; and the adaptation Of
bot he motions aud he machinery is eces:dryt0 DearH
lrea,sG as art
Again on the next page We IRE told'
Thi, copinnc.ion ofmaciiaery 9Th art has bet
seienty attended to ~ rearing By poUsr or rataeT ne
hare been supposed TO Be Incompatible nth Il
Fac mKsitrls for Example IN !ts present stdtL are
beyond reach ana iie has been done 9Th II in The
rearing Of checks
The curious or in,eges ted reader find whole
chapters as silly as this-indeed, few when are not
Ii the author had endeavored TO see with how
little practical information he could contrve, by in
oessant repetitions, TO exc costly book assn
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