(1) Cane Sugar: A Textbook on the Agriculture of the Sugar Cane The Manufacture of Cane Sugar, and the Analysis of Sugar-house Products (2) The Manufacture of Cane Sugar (3) Condensed Description of the Manufacture of Beet Sugar

Abstract

(1) BEARING in mind the importance of the sugar industry to the British Empire, more especially in its relation to sugar cane, it is not surprising, and distinctly comforting, to know that we are so well supplied at the present time with up-to-date literature on the subject. Mr. Deerr's treatise ranks among the most important, occupying as it has done for the last ten years—and if we include his first smaller work we may say seventeen years, not to mention his “Sugar House Control” published in 1900—a unique position, the subject being treated from both the theoretical and practical standpoints. The long experience of the author as a technologist I and an experimentalist had qualified him eminently for the task he undertook, while for the past ten years he has added still further to his previous extensive experience by being associated with the sugar industry in Cuba and with a sugar refinery in New York. The first edition of Mr. Deerr's treatise was published in 1911. The present edition covers 52 additional pages, each containing some 11 per cent. more words, in addition to which it has been completely rewritten. The reputation of the author is so well known and generally admitted that it is a guarantee at once that his task has been carried out with thoroughness. It is worthy of note, however, that his MS. has been submitted to the following authorities, to whom he acknowledges his thanks for help and criticism: Mr. J. Hamill, Dr. C. A. Browne, Dr. C. A. Barber, Dr. E. J. Butler, and Mr. J. P. Ogilvie.

(1) Cane Sugar: A Textbook on the Agriculture of the Sugar Cane. The Manufacture of Cane Sugar, and the Analysis of Sugar-house Products.

By Noël Deerr. Second (revised and enlarged) edition. Pp. viii + 644 + xxix plates. (London: Norman Rodger, 1921.) 425. net.

(2) The Manufacture of Cane Sugar.

By Llewellyn Jones Fredric I. Scard. Second revised edition. Pp. xix + 481 + 270 plates. (London: Duckworth and Co., 1921.) 255. net.

(3) Condensed Description of the Manufacture of Beet Sugar.

By Dr. F. Murke. Pp. v + 175. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1921.) 15s. net.