(1) Introduction to Qualitative Chemical Analysis (2) A Text-book of Practical Chemistry (3) Public Health Chemical Analysis

Abstract

(1) THE treatises on chemical analysis—qualitative and quantitative—planned so far back as 1840 by C. Remigius Fresenius, the original proprietor and director of the well-known Wiesbaden laboratory, have enjoyed an almost unchallenged position in Germany as Standard works for more than three-quarters of a century. During- that period they have been frequently revised and reprinted. English editions of these works have been published by the firm of J. and A. Churchill at various times, and are, of course, well known in this country and in America, but have never acquired the same popularity as in Ger many. Manuals of chemical analysis written by English and American authors have been found more suitable for class and laboratory in struction. Chemical analysis is, of course, an art which can be acquired only by practice, and a book on the subject should be substantially a vade-mecum, which is defined to be anything, especially a book or manual, a person carries with him for daily use. Now this is precisely what the works of Fresenius are not. They have grown so unwieldy that it is impossible to use them as manuals or as the constant companion of the student on the laboratory bench. They are to be regarded rather as works of reference to be consulted in the college library, in which the learner may hope to find an account, more or less detailed, of everything connected with the subject, arranged systematically, and with bibliographical references to the original sources of information.

(1) Introduction to Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

By Th. W. Fresenius. Seventeenth edition. Translated by C. Ainsworth Mitchell. Pp. xx + 954. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1921.) 36s. net.

(2) A Text-book of Practical Chemistry.

By G. F. Hood Major J. A. Carpenter. Pp. xii + 527. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1921.) 21s. net.

(3) Public Health Chemical Analysis.

By R. C. Frederick Dr. A. Forster. Pp. viii + 3O5. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1920.) 21s. net.