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Numerous books treating this subject in some This important volume contains definitions, descriptions and specifications for food materials, bever- of its aspects have appeared in England and European ages, and petroleum, together with legislative enact- continental countries, but none recently ; and, so far ments and similar material, and as a whole is the as the reviewer knows, this is the first book on the official source of information regarding the examination subject written b y a paint manufacturer. Mr. Toch and valuation of foods and certain other materials brings to the work a large fund of experience, and in Austria. ,4 large number of experts have partici- ways of looking a t the subject which ought t o stimulate pated in the preparation of material for the codex. intelligent thought among those for whose especial The preface is b y F. W. Dafert, who is the head of benefit it was written. About half the book is given the commission having the work in charge, and there t o discussion of some of the more important topics. is also a n historical introduction explaining the de- and the remainder t o descriptions of about 1 5 0 pigvelopment and extent of the Austrian work with ments, with reasons for the author's conclusions respect to judging of quality and the suppression of as to their merits. If it contained nothing new it adulteration and sophistication of foods and other would not be valuable; so it is no disparagement to materials. The present codex is the outgrowth and say t h a t not all will agree to everything the author completion of an enterprise begun under different says; but looking a t it in a large way, the chief merit of the book is the novel and expert manner in which auspices in 1891 which bore the same title. C. F. LANGWORTHY. the subjects are handled. It is handsomely gotten up and well illustrated. A. H. SABIX. Materials for Permanent Painting. By ~ ~ A X I N I L I A K TOCH. pp.
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