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THE original German edition of this book has been already noticed in NATURE (March 9, 1905, vol. lxxi., p. 435). The translation into English will make it accessible to a wider range of teachers, and to them it is to be warmly commended. No one can fail to be interested in seeing how one of the most lucid of German expositors, and one of the most ardent of reformers, presents the material of ordinary inorganic chemistry to the elementary student, and there are probably few people engaged in the business of teaching chemistry who will not find Prof. Ostwald's book of chemical dialogue eminently interesting and suggestive.
Conversations on Chemistry. First Steps in Chemistry.
Part ii., Chemistry of the Most Important Elements and Compounds. By W. Ostwald. Authorised translation by Stuart K. Turnbull. Pp. viii + 373. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1906.) Price 8s. 6d. net.
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S., A. Conversations on Chemistry First Steps in Chemistry . Nature 74, 173 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074173a0
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