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Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 23 The following members of our organization are to be congratulated on their recent attainment of the C. P. A. certificate of the several states specified: Mr. P. S. Gibson, New York Office, Pennsylvania; Mr. H . R. Gore, New York Office, New York; Mr. J . L . Martin, New York Office, New Jersey; Mr. Elijah Bates, Cleveland Office, Indiana. Book Review Keir, Malcolm. Manufacturing Industries In America. (New York, The Ronald Press Company, 1920. 324 p.) The accountant who glances over the pages of a new book may be pardoned if he wonders, perhaps selfishly, what value the volume may have for him from a technical point of view. Such, at any rate, was the attitude of mind in which the reviewer opened the treatise under consideration. Having read the book from cover to cover, which is something a reviewer seldom does, the accountant whose pleasant duty it is to review Keir's "Manufacturing Industries in America" is put to some embarrassment to describe his enthusiasm for it. The book is exceedingly entertaining. Few writers on dry technical subjects have been able to arouse more than technical interest. There is little of romance about iron and steel and cotton and wool. But Keir has written a historical novel with the industries as characters. He appeals to the interest of the reader by the simplicity of his style. He holds it with the cleverness of his composition. The book is instructive as well as entertaining. It brings out many bits of information which the average reader would rarely run across. For example, "Eastern Massachusetts has no high-grade iron although it was endowed with a poor variety known as bog ore, yielding from 25 to 50 per cent. of iron. As its name indicates, this ore was found in swamps or at the bottom of ponds, precipitated from the water by minute animals. . . . It lay from one-half to two feet deep, so a man in a boat working diligently with grappling irons or tongs could gather two tons in a day. . . . Thus one constricted area with a number of large ore-bearing ponds could keep a small-scale furnace in continuous operation. For example, a pond at Middleboro, Massachusetts, yielded 300 to 600 tons of ore a year for over 60 years." Read what the author says about the Bessemer process of making steel. "The
Object Description
Title |
[News items] Book review |
Author |
Anonymous |
Subject |
Books -- Reviews |
Personal Name |
Gibson, P. S. Gore, H. R. Martin, J. L. Bates, Elijah |
Office/Department |
Haskins & Sells. New York Office Haskins & Sells. Cleveland Office |
Citation |
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 04, no. 03 (1921 March 15), p. 23-24 |
Date-Issued | 1921 |
Source | Originally published by: Haskins & Sells |
Type | Text |
Collection | Deloitte Digital Collection |
Digital Publisher | University of Mississippi Libraries. Accounting Collection |
Date-Digitally Created | 2009 |
Identifier | HS Bulletin 4-p23 |