MARCH, 1953
GENERAL COLLEGE CHEMISTRY Andrew I. Scarlett, Professorof Chemistry, Dartmouth College, and Josh Ghrnez-Ibhnez, Associate Profemor of Chemistry, Wesleyan University. Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1954. x 645 pp. Figs. Tables. 24 X 16.5em. $6. FOURprevious editions of the text by Richardson and Scarlett of this same title have been well received; and now a "fifth edition" has been prepared. However, this new text differs in form and content from its forerunners. It is divided into seven parts of three to ten chapters each: Fundamental Principles and the Kinetic Theory of Matter, including stoichiometry, gas laws, etc.; Chemical Properties and the Periodic Table, introduced hy descriptive chemistry of H, 0,N, acids and bases, the inert gases; The Structure of Matter and the Chemical Bond, including redox reactions; Chemical Equilibrium and Solutions of Electrolytes, including kinetics and e. m. f.; The Chemistry of the Elements, occurrence, preparation, properties, history; Compound Substances, compounds of H, the halogens, S, N, P, Si, and two chapters on organic compounds; Thermochemistry, Colloids, Nuclear Reactions, one chapter on each; thermochemistry has been treated earlier in an introductorv manner. T h o authors stdt!, snd thir reviewer agrees, that it is prolmtrly not poaril~let
