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GIVERS of inexpensive Christmas remembrances—something more than a card and less than a present—have made us very familiar with the small volumes of the Temple series, and at a first glance the title pages of the two books before us seem to promise selections from Epictetus or De Quincey rather than an exposition of modern chemistry by a living authority. In the first of the volumes Prof. Ramsay has given an extremely condensed account of the present state of chemical theory, and in the second an equally condensed account of systematic chemistry. Both books bear the marks of freshness and originality, and, it must be added, both produce a certain feeling of breathlessness. They are eminently readable to a chemist, and extremely interesting as displaying a sort of camera obscura picture of the territory of chemistry as it is presented in the mind of one of the most active, most unconservative and most distinguished of contemporary workers.
Modern Chemistry. Part i. Theoretical Chemistry.
Pp. 126; Part ii. Systematic Chemistry. Pp. 203. By William Ramsay. The Temple Primers. (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1900.) Price 1s. each.
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S., A. Modern Chemistry Part i Theoretical Chemistry. Nature 64, 349 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064349a0
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