Abstract
TRULY the number of little books coming into existence, presumably to aid students to do the Science and Art Department's examinations, is very great, and they are not by any means always good. The evil of a big book has evidently been well seen by chemical teachers, and more especially by teachers connected with the Department's examinations, many little books springing up intended originally for the class or school to which the teacher is attached only. In some, the greater number of cases perhaps, this is a very happy thing for students in general. When a book of this kind passes through two editions in a reasonably short time there is some cause for its survival. The book before us has evidently fulfilled its mission in a fairly satisfactory manner. It is still decidedly one of the cramming class, but it contains an amount of matter simply and well arranged which, with the aid of a teacher, or demonstrations, should enable any ordinarily industrious student to “pass” the first stage of the “Department's” examinations.
Practical Chemistry, with Notes and Questions on Theoretical Chemistry.
By William Ripper, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Sheffield Technical School. Second Edition. (London: Isbister and Co., 1885.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 33, 459 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033459a0
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