(1) Nucleic Acids: their Chemical Properties and Physiological Conduct (2) The Simpler Natural Bases (3) The Chemistry of the Radio-Elements (4) Encyclopédie de Science Chimique Appliquée (5) The Principles of Inorganic Chemistry (6) The Chemistry of Cyanogen Compounds and their Manufacture and Estimation (7) Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (8) Preparations and Exercises in Inorganic Chemistry (9) A Manual of Chemistry: Theoretical

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(1) and (2) THE subject of biochemistry, like many other branches of knowledge; has already extended to dimensions which effectively prevent any one author from doing justice to more than a part of the subject. Under these conditions it has been usual to witness the production of a text-book in which a general editor has distributed the work amongst a number of colleagues. The two monographs now under review are excellent examples of a better method of treatment. The publication of a series of smaller monographs provides just that flexibility which is required by a rapidly-growing subject; topics which are not yet ripe for description in a text-book can be held over to await further development, whilst individual sections can be revised and brought up to date without rendering obsolete a whole edition of many volumes. (1) Nucleic Acids: their Chemical Properties and Physiological Conduct. By Prof. W. Jones. Pp. viii + 118. (Monographs on Biochemistry.) (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914.) Price 3s. 6d. net. (2) The Simpler Natural Bases. By Prof. G. Barger. Pp. viii + 215. (Monographs on Biochemistry.) (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914.) Price 6s. net. (3) The Chemistry of the Radio-Elements. By Prof. F. Soddy. Second edition. Part i. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914.) Price 4s. net. (4) Encyclopédie de Science Chimique Appliquée. Tome v., “Principes d'Analyse et de Synthése en Chimie organique.” By M. Hanriot, Prof. P. Carré., and others. Pp. 795. (Paris et Liége: Ch. Béranger, 1914.) (5) The Principles of Inorganic Chemistry. By W. Ostwald. Translated with the author's sanction by Prof. A. Findlay. Fourth edition. Pp. xxxiii + 836. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 18s. net. (6) The Chemistry of Cyanogen Compounds and their Manufacture and Estimation. By H. E. Williams. Pp. viii + 423. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1915.) Price 10s. 6d. net. (7) Advanced Inorganic Chemistry. By P. W. Oscroft. Pp. viii + 504. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1915.) Price 5s. net. (8) Preparations and Exercises in Inorganic Chemistry. By W. Lowson. Pp. vii + 128. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 2s. 6d. (9) A Manual of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical, Inorganic and Organic. Adapted to the requirements of students of medicine. By Dr. A. P. Luff and H. C. H. Candy. Pp. xix + 660. Fifth edition. (London: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1915.) Price 8s. 6d. net.