Theoretical Chemistry

Abstract

“GOOD wine needs no bush,” but a well-known bush makes one look for good wine. The translation of Prof. Lothar Meyer's “Die Modernen Theorien der Chemie,” made by Messrs. Bedson and Williams, is so well known and so appreciated by all English-speaking chemists, that everyone welcomes a new book by the author of “Modern Theories,” and expects the book to be a good one. The “Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry ” is a translation, by the translators of the “ Modern Theories,” of a book published in German in the course of last year. The translation is exceedingly well done; the English runs smoothly and lucidly; the book reads as if it were composed in English, rather than as a translation from another tongue.

Outlines of Theoretical Chemistry.

By Lothar Meyer, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Tübingen. Translated by P. Phillips Bedson, D.Sc., and W. Carleton Williams, B.Sc. Pp. 220. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892.)