Einführung in die Chimie in leichtfasslicher Form

Abstract

THIS book begins with an interesting apologia. When the author first took up the work of teaching in Volkshochschulen he lectured to the pupils very much in the same way that he himself had been lectured to in the University during his first semester. He soon came to think, however, that this was a mistake, and that a class of people, meeting in the evening hours for the improvement of their general knowledge, should not be treated like students taking up a professional study. He therefore altered the form of his lectures, and endeavoured to present a more general and expansive view of chemistry, and to impart, as it were, the spirit and stimulus of the science. In like manner he came to the conclusion that ordinary chemical text-books are unsuitable for the pupils of Volkshochschulen, and the present work has been written to fill the void. The case which Prof. Lassar-Cohn endeavours to meet is a somewhat special one. Given an evening class of young men desirous of improving their general education, which is the best way of giving them some notion of chemistry? Prof. Lassar-Cohn answers this question by saying that as a laboratory is a luxury which a Volkshochschule cannot afford, you must content yourself with experimental lectures and present the subject in its broadest and most interesting aspect.

Einführung in die Chimie in leichtfasslicher Form.

Von Prof. Dr. Lassar Cohn. Pp. xi + 299. (Hamburg and Liepzig: Leopold Voss, 1899.)