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THERE are two distinct aims that may actuate the writer of a text-book on practical chemistry, whether analytical or otherwise, namely, (1) the setting forth of principles, and (2) the enumeration of facts. To a certain extent they are inseparable, for principles without facts are useless, and facts without principles are not ordered knowledge. But it is impossible to make the best of both at the same time. If the principles are burdened with too great a multiplicity of facts, they are fairly certain to be smothered by them, and facts cannot be set forth in the clearest possible way if the method of arranging them is to serve some other end as well.
(1) Elementary Practical Chemistry.
Part i. General Chemistry. By Prof. Frank Clowes J. Bernard Coleman. Seventh edition. Pp. xvi + 241. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1920.) Price 6s.
(2) A Treatise on Qualitative Analysis: Adapted for Use in the Laboratories of Colleges and Technical Institutes.
By Prof. Frank Clowes J. Bernard Coleman. Ninth edition. Pp. xvi + 400. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1920.) Price 12s. 6d.
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J., C. (1) Elementary Practical Chemistry (2) A Treatise on Qualitative Analysis: Adapted for Use in the Laboratories of Colleges and Technical Institutes. Nature 104, 688–689 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104688a0
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