A Text-book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis

Abstract

THE book is so excellent as far as it goes, except in the quality of the paper and the print, that it seems a pity it goes no farther. A little more elaboration would have converted it into a really serviceable manual. The reviewer has failed to discover any important omission among the special methods with which he happens to be familiar, but there is an absence of detail, which, it cannot be too often insisted on, deprives any treatise on analysis of much of its practical value. The chemist whose business it is to analyse cannot afford the time to elaborate methods for himself. The fact, of course, is not overlooked that the book is written for students, and no doubt the student is expected to supply any gaps which may occur. But apart from a chapter of typical exercises in analysis, it is difficult to see in what sense the book can be called a student's text-book, unless, indeed, the student is qualifying for the post of analyst.

A Text-book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis.

By Frank Julian. Pp. 604. (St. Paul, Minn.: The Ramsey Publishing Co., 1902.) Price 25s. net.