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THE appearance of a third English edition of Julius Schmidt's text-book bears witness to a steady demand for this work by advanced students of chemistry and biochemistry. This is not surprising, as the choice of comprehensive text-books of advanced organic chemistry in the English language is strictly limited. The work under notice deserves commendation as providing a coherent and well-documented background to the numerous monographs and series of lecture-notes with which the present-day student reading for honours in. this expansive subject is hedged about. Although it has grown from 798 to 865 pages since 1926, this text still remains between two covers. This is a distinct merit; for, as a modern Dean Swift might write, whoever can reduce two volumes of an advanced organic chemical text-book into one deserves better of the honours student than the whole race of Beilsteins and Richters put together.
A Text-Book of Organic Chemistry
By the late Dr. Julius Schmidt. English Edition by Dr. H. Gordon Rule. Third Edition, revised and extended. Pp. xxiv + 865. (London and Edinburgh: Gurney and Jackson, 1936.) 25s. net.
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R., J. Chemistry. Nature 138, 633 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138633b0
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