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THE many excellent elementary text-books now available for students of chemistry ought to have a very distinct influence upon chemical teaching in schools. The two books under notice differ in several respects, but each is the work of a teacher who knows the capacity of a school curriculum for science, and the limitations as well as the capabilities of the human boy. Mr. French's book follows more or less closely the chemical subjects included in the syllabus of elementary physics and chemistry prescribed for Evening Continuation Schools. The syllabus is a reasonable one, and therefore it has been possible to describe a course of work which will meet with the approval of the advocates of rational methods of instruction in chemistry. Intelligent work in experimental science is now encouraged by the authorities of the University Local Examinations as well as the Education Department; and Mr. French's book provides a course of instruction which may be adopted with advantage, not only by teachers who have the requirements of examiners and inspectors in view, but who desire also to cultivate habits of observation and reasoning in their pupils.
Practical Chemistry. Part i.
By William French Pp. xvi + 136. (London: Methuen and Co., 1900.)
An Introduction to Qualitative Analysis.
By H. P. Highton Pp. xii + 170. (London: Rivingtons, 1900.)
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Practical Chemistry. Part i. An Introduction to Qualitative Analysis. Nature 61, 514 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061514a0
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