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THE above titles may be misleading to English readers, the ground covered by each book being practically of Matriculation standard. The authors have, however, conveyed in addition interesting information not usually found in English text-books of similar character. The chemistry of common life and of industry receives brief treatment, and these elementary books should prove interesting to the advanced English student who, in preparing for examinations, has attained detailed knowledge of such matters as the syntheses of alkaloids and other things he is never likely to see, but has been left in ignorance of chemical processes in the body, the growth of plants, the manufacture of such things as glue, ink, bread, candles, and soap, and most of the applications of chemistry to daily life.
(1) Intermediate Text-book of Chemistry.
By Alexander Smith. Pp. vi + 520. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1920.). Price 8s. 6d. net.
(2) College Text-book of Chemistry.
By William A. Noyes. Pp. viii + 370. (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1919.)
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P., J. (1) Intermediate Text-book of Chemistry (2) College Text-book of Chemistry. Nature 106, 208–209 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106208a0
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