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Fundamentals of Modem Chemistry. , Lake View HERBERTR. S M ~ HM.A., High School, Chicago, and HARRYM. Msss, B.A., Nicholas Senn High School, Chicago. First edition. Henry Holt & Co., New York City, 1928. vii 266 pp. Illustrated. 13 X 19 cm. $1.36.
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This text, one of the authors of which was a member of the committee of the American Chemical Society on Chemical Education, which prepared the "Standard Minimum Outline" for high-school chemistry, is admirable for its brevity. I t has to he almost telegraphic in places to accomplish this achievement. The design of the text is to help the student who has made an experimental approach to the topics of chemistry through the authors' "Modern Experimental Chemistry" (see review immediately follozuing) to sort out and consolidate the fundamentals from the mass of details and to evolve the principles from the collection of facts. The authors believe that there is too much detail in the average textbook of chemistry and that the student suffers from a scattering of his attention. One meritorious feature of the hook is its provision of projects for the more capable pupils. Weare accused of neglecting our leaders in America. Here is one text that a t t e m ~ t to s care for them. The make-uo of the lessons is such that the "contract differ. plan,, may he used if desired, ent is this hook from the ordinary text that the teacher must see a copy for himself t o really appreciate it. FRANnB,
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Modem Experimental Chemistry. HERBERT R. SMITH, M.A., Lake View High School, Chicago, and HARRYM. MESS,
B.A., Nicholas Senn High School, Chicago. First edition. Henry Holt & Co., New York City, 1928. xviii 204 PP. Illustrated. 25 X 19 cm. $1.00.
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This book, by the same authors as "Fundamentals of Chemistry," reviewed above, is a loose-leaf laboratory manual. I t contains 85 exercises and in addition very much good explanatory material such as is more often found in the tenthook. The electronic explanation of oxidation and reduction, for example, is furnished. I t is liberally illustrated and is as voluminous as the text is brief. This is of course due to the thesis of the authors to the effect that the laboratory approach to chemistry is the most effective. There is much good material of the "practical" sort including a large amount of elementary organic chemistry. A real teacher must be had to go along with this manual but the combination should bring results. FRANKB. WADE C S A O R T X HIOA ~ ( ~ HSCBOOL INDIINIPOLIS.
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Principles of Chemistry. JosEm H. ROE. Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, George Washington University Medical School, Washington, D. C. Second edition. The C. V. Moshy Company, St. Louis, 1929. 427 pp. 13.5 X 20 cm. 82.50. The object of this hook is to present a tent "to meet the requirements of the forty-five- to sixty-hour course in chemi s t ~for nurses, recommended by the National League of Nursing Education." The second edition follows the general plan of the first hut has been somewhat enlarged, the text proper consisting of 286 pages and 132 pages of laboratory directions and blank pages for notes. About one-half of the book is devoted to inorganic chemistry, the other half to organic and the physiological aspects of chemistry,
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