The Simple Carbohydrates and the Glucosides

Abstract

THE third edition of Dr. E. F. Armstrong's monograph is something more than a new and revised issue; it is, to all intents and purposes, a new book. Such a statement may not, on first inspection, seem to be well founded, as the general scheme adopted by the author in the earlier editions has been retained, and the subdivision of the material into chapters remains much as before. A comparative reading of the texts, however, shows that some of the changes introduced are fundamental, and a reader making his first acquaintance with the specialised chemistry of the carbohydrates through a study of the latest edition will thus acquire not only much new information, but also an entirely new perspective.

The Simple Carbohydrates and the Glucosides.

By Dr. E. Frankland Armstrong. Third edition. (Monographs on Biochemistry.) Pp. x + 239. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919.) Price 12s. net.