A Standard Treatise on Chemistry

Abstract

TO write a satisfactory review of this book is no easy task. The word which shall express an appreciation and a criticism does not come readily to one's pen. Turning over the pages and reading the lucid descriptions of preparations and properties of element after element, and compound following compound, one is depressed, and borne down by the burden of many facts and much learning. But to this depression succeed the pleasure and the sense of power that belong to the gaining of knowledge, and the feeling of security that remains with the man who has got down to fundamental facts.

A Treatise on Chemistry.

By Sir H. E. Roscoe C. Schorlemmer Vol. I. “The Non-Metallic Elements.” New edition, completely revised by Sir H. E. Roscoe, assisted by Drs. H. G. Colman and A. Harden. Pp. xi. 888. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1894).