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(1) IN the present writer's student days the favourite text-book of advanced organic chemistry was Prof, von Richter's well-known work, which had just been translated into English. Roughly, one might express the difference between that work and Prof. Cohen's by saying that whilst the former was largely an accumulation of facts, the latter is chiefly an exposition of theories and principles. There is much less recital and much more discussion. The mechanism of the chemical reaction, rather than the properties of the product, is now insisted on; and rightly so, for this aspect of the matter is the more philosophically interesting and scientifically valuable.
(1) Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students.
By Prof. J. B. Cohen. Vol. ii. Pp. vii + 427. (London: Edward Arnold, 1913.) Price 16s. net.
(2) The Volatile Oils.
By E. Gildemeister Fr. Hoffmann. Second edition by E. Gildemeister. Authorised translation by Edward Kremers. Vol i. Pp. xiii + 677. (London, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913.) Price 20s. net.
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S., C. (1) Organic Chemistry for Advanced Students (2) The Volatile Oils . Nature 92, 498–499 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092498b0
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