(1) Landolt-Brnstein physikalisch-chemische Tabellen (2) The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (3) A College Text-Book on Quantitative Analysis (4) A Laboratory Manual in Chemistry (5) Elementary Chemical Theory and Calculations

Abstract

(1) THE new edition of the Landolt-Börnstein tables has been very greatly enlarged and covers nearly 500 pages more than the previous edition. Almost every section of the tables has contributed to this increase: it is therefore impossible to direct attention to all the features which are characteristic of the new edition. There is, however, a marked development in the use of graphic methods which will be very widely welcomed. Thus the equilibrium-diagrams for metallic alloys have been increased in number from 54 to 251, and a series of 149 equilibrium-diagrams for binary mixtures of fused salts, including many minerals, makes its appearance for the first time. The interval of eleven years which elapsed between previous editions of the tables has now been reduced to seven years only; this appears to be justified by the vast multiplication of numerical data, as illustrated, for instance, by the fact that the ”Annual Tables” for 1910 cover more than 700 pages; but the issue of frequent editions, each of which renders the earlier ones obsolete, will tend to confine the tables more and more to the shelves of reference-libraries. The new edition is the first to be issued since the death of Prof. Landolt; it is, therefore, only fitting that a handsome portrait of the originator of the tables should appear as a frontispiece to the new volume.

(1) Landolt-Brnstein physikalisch-chemische Tabellen.

Vierte Auflage. Herausgegeben von Dr. Richard Bornstein und Dr. Walther A. Roth. Pp. xvi + 1313. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1912.) Price 56 marks.

(2) The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

With special consideration of the application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. By Prof. J. Stieglitz. Parts i. and ii., Fundamental Principles and their Application. Pp. xi + 312. Price 1.40 dollars. Parts iii. and iv., Laboratory Manual. Pp. viii + 151. Price 1.20 dollars. (New York: The Century Co., 1911–12.)

(3) A College Text-Book on Quantitative Analysis.

Prof. H. R. Moody. Pp. vi + 165. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 5s. 6d. net.

(4) A Laboratory Manual in Chemistry.

Prof. W. C. Morgan Prof. J. A. Lyman. Pp. xiii + 142. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 1s. 8d. net.

(5) Elementary Chemical Theory and Calculations.

Dr. J. Knox. Pp. vii + 103. (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1912.) Price 2s. net.