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THIS book embodies the substance of a course, or part of a course, of lectures which the author gives to candidates for the Natural Science Tripos at Cambridge. Supplemented in practice by experiments appropriate to the topics of each lecture, it is intended to give the student a lead to the study of standard chemical literature. Mr. Fenton explains the difficulty of the circumstances under which the teaching has to be done, and he appears rather as one who has to comply with an established system than the exponent of a system that he thinks the best, or even very good. No one, of any modesty, who is engaged in teaching chemistry to university students at the present day will be very dogmatic about the details of the course that should be followed. The subject has become so vast and so varied that personal predilections and capacities may lead to courses very different from one another and yet of no very different merit. Two extremes may be found in the tendency of one kind of teacher to produce a chemist well informed about substances and another kind to produce a chemist well informed about principles; the first would ordinarily be the better craftsman, the second the clearer thinker.
Outlines of Chemistry, with Practical Work.
By Dr. H. J. H. Fenton First part. Pp. xvi + 365. (Cambridge: The University Press, 1909.) Price 9s. net.
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SMITHELLS, A. Outlines of Chemistry, with Practical Work . Nature 82, 186 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082186a0
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