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ALTHOUGH the authors of this small book have confined themselves to such parts of elementary qualitative analysis as find a place in Stage I. of the Science and Art Department Syllabus, neither in general plan nor in details of treatment does the book possess any educational advantage over its many competitors. A mere recital of reactions cannot be considered as “Elementary Practical Chemistry.” Surely it is possible to present even the array of facts utilised in analysis in such a manner as to comply with the fundamental requirements necessary to be fulfilled by all educational works designed for young students of science. The production of compilations of the present type will probably cease to exist when the new regulations for Organised Science Schools come into force. We may then, perhaps, look for the production of really philosophical text-books arranged on sound educational lines, and yet calculated to minimise the very real difficulties encountered by the beginner. Putting aside these fundamental considerations, it is only just to say that the authors have brought together a strictly limited set of reactions with few positive inaccuracies.
Elementary Practical Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic.
By J. T. Hewitt F. G. Pope. Pp. 42. (London: Whittaker and Co.)
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Elementary Practical Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic. Nature 51, 364 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051364a0
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