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THE essential features of a book dealing with the subject of commercial analysis, whether intended for student or professional analyst, are careful elaboration and extreme minuteness of detail. As it is impossible for any analyst to have had an experience of more than a limited number of analytical processes, or at least such an experience as would justify him in publishing them, one naturally expects a book on commercial analysis to be devoted to special branches of the subject, unless, of course, a number of writers co-operate in its production. There are many special treatises of the kind relating to assaying, iron and steel analysis, to the analysis of soaps and fats, tanning materials, &c, which supply everything that is needful in this respect. To state that the present volume contains an account of nearly every branch of commercial analysis within the compass of 279 small octavo pages, that the subjects of leather, glue, vinegar, &c., are dismissed in one page, and that the analyses of other products are treated in the same cursory and superficial manner, is a doubtful recommendation.
Essais du Commerce et de l'Industrie.
By L. Cuniasse R. Zwilling. Pp. viii + 302. (Paris: Carré and Naud, 1899.)
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Essais du Commerce et de l'Industrie . Nature 61, 176 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061176c0
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