The Varieties of Damage for which Claims may arise--Various Classes of Property--Points to be observed in Surveys--Notices to Treat--Nature of Damage for which Claims can and cannot be sustained--What Property can be compulsorily taken--When Entry on Property can and cannot be compulsorily made--Of Goodwill and Stock--and of the various Legal Methods of Settlement of Disputed Claims--together with Full and Explicit Instructions on the Methods of Valuing and of Making Claims; with Comments on Cases arising under the Metropolis Local Management and Metropolitan Buildings Acts; the whole given in a Practical and Comprehensive Form, supplemented by a copious Appendix, containing many Useful Forms and Precedents, and also Tables for the Valuation of Freeholds, Leaseholds, Reversions, and Life-Interests. * * * * * _Dilapidations_: a Text-book for Architects and Surveyors, in Tabulated Form. By BANISTER FLETCHER, Fellow Royal Inst. Brit. Arch. (Author of ‘Model Houses’). Showing who are liable for Dilapidations, and the extent of the liability of Lessors, Lessees, Tenants at will, Tenants by elegit, Statute, Merchant, or Staple Tenants in fee simple, Tenants in tail, Tenants for life, Tenants for years without impeachment of Waste, Mortgagor, Mortgagee in possession, Yearly Tenants, Tenants in common, and joint Tenants, Rights of coparceners; also what are dilapidations and waste, and further fully instructs the surveyor how to take and value them, to which is added the duties of surveyors, with a table of legal cases, embracing the most recent, and illustrated throughout by examples drawn from the author’s experience, and latest legal decisions. Crown 8vo, cloth, 5_s._ * * * * * _Quantity Surveying, for the use of Architects, Builders, and Engineers._ By J. LEANING. _With 42 illustrations._ 375 pages, crown 8vo. cloth, 9_s._ * * * * * _Spons’ Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval_; with technical terms in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, 3100 pp., and _nearly 8000 engravings_, in super-royal 8vo, in 8 divisions, 5_l_. 8_s._ Complete in 3 vols., cloth, 5_l._ 5_s._ Bound in a superior manner, half-morocco, top edge gilt, 3 vols., 6_l._ 12_s._ _See page 16._ * * * * * _A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, Prevention, and Cure of Dry Rot in Timber_; with Remarks on the Means of Preserving Wood from Destruction by Sea-Worms, Beetles, Ants, etc. By _Thomas Allen Britton_, late Surveyor to the Metropolitan Board of Works, etc., etc. _Plates_, crown 8vo, cloth, 7_s._ 6_d._ * * * * * _Metrical Tables._ By _G. L. Molesworth_, M.I.C.E. 32mo, cloth, 1_s._ 6_d._ CONTENTS. General--Linear Measures--Square Measures--Cubic Measures--Measures of Capacity--Weights--Combinations--Thermometers.