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Oriole's daughter, a novel, Volume 3 (of 3)

Chapter 19: Heinemann’s Scientific Handbooks.
By Jessie Fothergill
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The novel traces the domestic and social life of a family whose ambitions and loyalties collide with caregiving, marriage expectations, and personal desires. Intimate scenes and conversations illuminate tensions between honesty and deception, the upkeep of outward appearances, and differing attachments to place and tradition. Characters pursue intellectual and artistic interests while negotiating class conventions and public reputation, and the narrative shows how pride, duty, and secrecy shape individual choices and relationships across a range of social encounters.

Heinemann’s Scientific Handbooks.

MANUAL OF BACTERIOLOGY. By A. B. Griffiths, Ph.D., F.R.S. (Edin.), F.C.S. Crown 8vo, cloth, Illustrated. 7s. 6d.

MANUAL OF ASSAYING GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, and Lead Ores. By Walter Lee Brown, B.Sc. Revised, Corrected, and considerably Enlarged, with a chapter on the Assaying of Fuel, &c. By A. B. Griffiths, Ph.D., F.R.S. (Edin.), F.C.S. Crown 8vo, cloth, Illustrated, 7s. 6d.

Colliery Guardian.—“A delightful and fascinating book.”

Financial World.—“The most complete and practical manual on everything which concerns assaying of all which have come before us.”

GEODESY. By J. Howard Gore. Crown 8vo, cloth, Illustrated, 5s.

St. James’s Gazette.—“The book may be safely recommended to those who desire to acquire an accurate knowledge of Geodesy.”

Science Gossip.—“It is the best we could recommend to all geodetic students. It is full and clear, thoroughly accurate, and up to date in all matters of earth-measurements.”

THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GASES. By Arthur L. Kimball, of the Johns Hopkins University. Crown 8vo, cloth, Illustrated, 5s.

Chemical News.—“The man of culture who wishes for a general and accurate acquaintance with the physical properties of gases, will find in Mr. Kimball’s work just what he requires.”

HEAT AS A FORM OF ENERGY. By Professor R. H. Thurston, of Cornell University. Crown 8vo, cloth, Illustrated, 5s.

Manchester Examiner.—“Bears out the character of its predecessors for careful and correct statement and deduction under the light of the most recent discoveries.”

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