The copper era., 1908-04-16
Review Of the Copper Handbook.

Stevens, of Houghton, Michigan. |
The book has 1928 pages, octave,
BREWER type, being materially larger |
than before. The author apologies |
for his inability to revise the book |
throughout, explaining that fire, sick
ness and loss of five months time pre-
vented, but the new volume contains
about 10000 words of new matter,
equal in length to three ordinary
works of fiction, in addition to the
matter remaining unchanged from
the preceding issue.
The new edition of the Copper
Handbook contains % chapters. an
increase of nine, treating of copper
under the headings of history,
geology, chemistry, mineralogy, min
ing, milling, concentrating, hydro
metallurgy, pyrometallurgy, electro
metallurgy, alloys, brands, grades,
uses, substitutes, Technology,
geography, copper deposits, copper
mines and statistics. The treatment
given the subject in 1928 pages is en-
cyclopaedic in scope but the logical
and orderly arrangement of the
great mass of facts presented, cou-
pied with a table of contents, full in
dex and alphabetical arrangement of
districts, countries, mines, minerals
and glossary, render it possible to as
certain any given fact with almost as
much ease as a word is found in d
dictionary. This is point of much
value to readers that has been over
looked in many otherwise excellent
works of reference.
The Copper Handbook IS not in
tended to replace other works for the
use of technical men, but it does sup
plement all other technical books on
copper, while for the average reader
it's hundreds of pages devoted to the
scientific and technical features of
the subject will be found to cover
every point of interest. The Ian
guage is plain throughout, and the
layman, whether miner or investor,
will find the clear and easily under
standable exposition of scientific
facts great aid, as the highly tech
nical language used in many of the
best scientific works is a serious
stumbling-block in the path of the
man not technically trained, who is
forced to read such books with a
dictionary at his elbow.
In whatever light the Copper
Handbook is viewed. whether in de-
scribing the thousands of different
copper mines, in all parts of the
world, smelling and refining, or in
the forty pages of statistics covering
the copper industry of the globe in
its various commercial and financial
aspects, the book must stand as
monument of patience and labor, it
being the unaided work of a single
man.
The book will be found of deep in
terest and practical value to every
man interested ia the subject of cop
per, from whatever standpoint,
duction or use of the metal, or is an
investor in copper shares. The de-
scriptions of the mines are written
without fear or favor, and several
hundred mining companies, some
very prominent, are handled without
gloves, and in manner that would
Justify no end of libel suits were the
author not sure of his facts. In view
of the exceedingly plain speaking in
this book, in which scores of com
panies are termed swindIes and
frauds, it seems rather surprising
that in the seven years of its publica-
ton not one libel suit has been
brought into court, though many
have been threatened. In fact the
author of the Copper Handbook has
turned the tables on some of his
critics by placing d few of them in
prison, for their frauds upon the in
vesting public.
The price of the Copper Handbook
is So, and the selling plan used is alb
solutely unique in the book trade.
For five years past Mr.. Stevens has
sent his book, all carriage charges
prepaid, without a penny payment in
advance, to any person in any part of
the world, on one weeks approval,
subject to return if unsatisfactory.
It speaks Will for the book that only
about one copy in thirty has been re-
turned, and well for the honesty of
average human nature that only
about one man in thirty keeping the
book has failed to pay for it. On
these unusual terms anyone interested
in copper can well afford to send to
Mr.. Stevens for a copy of the new
edition OF the Copper Handbook.