Theoretical Organic Chemistry

Abstract

THE author commences his preface with an apology for bringing out a new book on organic chemistry. We are not, however, prepared to agree with Dr. Cohen that an apology is necessary. There are not very many good and complete text-books on organic chemistry in this country, therefore a new book—provided that it is good—would not be at all out of place. At another place in his preface the author says, “The production and uses of common materials, which come under our daily observation, are frequently relegated in some text-books of organic chemistry to a background of small print; in others entirely omitted.” Dr. Cohen particularises such substances as lanoline, linseed oil, gelatine, the tannins, turpentine, &c. Our interest is at once aroused and we turn up turpentine, and this is what we find:

Theoretical Organic Chemistry.

By J. B. Cohen Pp. xv + 57. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1902.) Price 6s.