(1) Senior Practical Chemistry (2) Volumetric Analysis for Students of Pharmaceutical and General Chemistry (3) The Preparation of Substances Important in Agriculture: A Laboratory Manual of Synthetic Agricultural Chemistry (4) Salt and the Salt Industry (5) Industrial Chemistry

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(1) THESE small books differ from each other 1 perhaps as widely as it is possible for five chemical books to differ, except in one matter, namely, that each author seems to be fully competent to deal with his subject. Mr. Bausor disclaims responsibility for the character of the course of work given in his “Senior Practical Chemistry,” as it is designed to meet the requirements of the Senior Cambridge Local Examination in Practical Chemistry. We may be old-fashioned, but we still think that the qualitative character of things should be studied before an attempt is made to estimate their quantity. To say the least of it, it appears strange to us that a student, after having made preparations and done experiments some of which demand considerable manipulative skill, should then be instructed how to bend and cut glass tubing, and how to take small quantities of materials out of bottles by means of a spatula. But we suppose that this is a matter of the syllabus. The final section deals with qualitative analysis, but only so far as the detection of the acid and the base of a single salt. (1) Senior Practical Chemistry. By H. W. Bausor. Pp. viii + 217. (London: W. B. Clive. University Tutorial Press, Ltd., 1919.) Price 3s. 6d. (2) Volumetric Analysis for Students of Pharmaceutical and General Chemistry. By Charles H. Hampshire. Second edition. Pp. 127. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1919.) Price 5s. net. (3) The Preparation of Substances Important in Agriculture: A Laboratory Manual of Synthetic Agricultural Chemistry. Third edition. By Prof. Charles A. Peters. Pp. vii + 81. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1919.) Price 4s. net. (4) Salt and the Salt Industry. By Albert F. Calvert. (Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries.) Pp. vii + 151. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., n.d.) Price 2s. 6d. net. (5) Industrial Chemistry. By Dr. Clerk Ranken. (The People's Books.) Pp. 126. (London and Edinburgh: T. C. and E. C. Jack, Ltd.; T. Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1919.) Price 1s. 3d.