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THE author of this volume has exercised a consider able amount of ingenuity in illustrating his subject by reference to many of its most interesting technical applications. His own knowledge is evidently extensive and up-to-date, and it is therefore all the more to be regretted that he should have adopted a method of teaching which is radically bad and indefensible. As in so many other cases of the kind, he has evidently sacrificed sound method to the demands of those who require “a sufficient preparation for the London Matriculation (new syllabus), Northern Universities Matriculation, and Army Entrance Examinations in chemistry,” compressed into a two years' course, and has adopted a system which approaches perilously near to “cramming” pure and simple.
Inorganic Chemistry for Schools.
By W. M. Hootton. Pp. viii + 408. (London: Edward Arnold, n.d.) Price 3s. 6d.
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Inorganic Chemistry for Schools . Nature 87, 143 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087143a0
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