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So long as examinations in practical chemistry of the test-tube order are encouraged by examining bodies, there will be a steady consumption of chemical cram books. The peculiarities of such books are that the student is never allowed to step outside the limits of his syllabus without due warning, and his weary brain is not perplexed with explanations. Like the cattle in the large tinned meat factories, he is driven along a narrow gangway in which he cannot turn round; until he is delivered into the hands of the slaughterer.
Practical Chemistry.
By P. A. E. Richards Pp. viii + 136. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1904.) Price 3s. net.
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C., J. Practical Chemistry . Nature 70, 505 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070505b0
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