Synthetic Organic Compounds

Abstract

SEVERAL books have appeared during the past year or so, both in Great Britain and in the United States, which deal with certain special branches of chemistry from the industrial and manufacturing points of view. Without doubt many of these treatises are excellent and constitute well-written and concise accounts of particular types of manufacture. They may be regarded, therefore, as valuable contributions to technological literature, and are comparable in this respect with similar treatises written by experts in one or other of the many sections of scientific chemistry. In each case the author may be supposed to have, not only a far-reaching knowledge of his subject, but also to possess sufficient wisdom, as distinct from know ledge, to enable him to sift the grain from the chaff in the published literature of the subject with which he deals. Nevertheless, even in a clear-cut comparison such as this, the difficulties met with by the two types of author are very different.

Synthetic Organic Compounds.

By Dr. S. P. Schotz. Pp. 412. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1925.) 45s. net.