240
JOURNAL OF
CHEMICAL EDUCATION
DECEMBER, 1924
Recent Books Introduction to General Chemistry, by WILLIAM A Laboratory Manual in General Chemistry, by F O S ~ B R Princeton . University Press. PrinceW r ~ ~ r rPror s ~ e a . Princeton University Press, ton, N . I.,1924. 643 pages. Price $3.50. Princeton, N. 1.. 1924. Pages IX. 205. Prim $ 2 0 0 . To anyone who has had the privilege of listenThis book was written to accompany the ing to Professor Foster's lectures, this book will offer no surprises. I t is the product of fifteen author's "Introduction to General Chemistry." years' experience, including a year of trial with I t is the culmination of laboratory notes and his own classes. I t embodies the clarity and muluals written by Professor Foster and used simplicity of his lectures with the wealth of deby hi. daorer f a r many years. I t shares the fail, explanation and example proper to a textexcellence of the textbook mentioned above. book. If steers a straight course between the This manual doer not contain quite as many . some other now in individual experiments a use, but there ir an ample number for any thorough laboratory course. The selection of topics the practical application of the ~ubject. An and experiments is very good. Peaturer that make it 3tand out from other excellent series of portraits of eminent chemists serves to enhance its value still further. The manuals are a list of reference books to use in latest advancer on the frontiers of chemistry are the laboratory, a thorough~going chapter on not neglected. chemical operations including weighing and i t s accompanying manipulations, a table of 4-place Details of arrangement that commended thcmlogarithms, an excellent chapter on blowpipe selves t o the reviewer are the early introduetioo and dry way analytical test.. and abundance of of symbols and equations, a summary at the questions, plenty of "olvmetric analyse., a free end of all the earlier chapten, question. at the use of notes containing somewhat difficult and end of each chapter, and a group of 221 problemr obaEure explanations on the subject matter, t h e a t the end of the book. inclusion of complicated equations immediately The chapters on ionization arc very well following the place where the reaction is called written. Profe.ror Po3ter'. chapters on Valeace for, a chapter on qualitative analysis, etc. and Nomenclature, Molecular and Atomic Plenty of originality and mental cfiort is reWeights. Energy and Chemical Change, Structure quired of thestudent, but the timeconsumingand of Matter, Radioactivity, the Food of Plants ofttimer discouraging-book research" for obrcvre and Animals, Colloids, and Metals and Alloys are and difficult points is eliminated wherever pooexcellent. They appeal even to the advanced sible. Under B a and Sr we find a thorough chemist. direu9sion of the solubility prodoet principle This book should be in the library of every and hydrolysis is illustrated by precipitating teacher of Freshman Chemistry and no mistake AI(OH)s with BaClr. will be made in adapting it fmclann use. MALCOLM M. HAF~NO.
M. H A P ~ C . MALCQLX
