The scope of the book might better have been either broader or narrower. A
book, restricted to oxygen compounds, could have included old and new data on the total amount of oxygen in petroleum. B u t one shudders t o think of the extra work that either would have taken; a meal part fish and part fowl is better than no meal a t all. The real reason for the duality of the book is that much oI what is k n o m about both zcids and bases was learned a t the University of Texas. Professor J. R. Bailey initiated studies there in 1926 and conducted them until he retired in 1934; Professor Lochte has continued them since. Although the Texas group shares credit for the present knowledge of acids with others, particularly the persistent von Braun a t Frankfurt, i t learned what is known about bases almost alone. The American Petroleum Institute's new Research Project 52 promises to extend the knowledge of nitrogen compounds in the next decade, but the information on acids in Lochte and Littman may stand for some time. ROBERT F. MARSCHNER S ~ * x o * n oOIL COMPANI(IND~ANA) WH~TIND IN , D~ANA
ADVANCED ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Walter Wagner, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Clarence 3. Hull, Assistant Profesor of Chemistry, and Gerald E. Markel, Associate Professor of Mathematics, all of University of Detroit. Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York, 1956. v 282 pp. 44 figs. 9 tables. 16 X 23.5cm. $6.
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THE authors intend this text for use in a firsbyear gradnate-level course in analye ical chemistry. I t consists of two parts. The first is a survey of important techniques, instrumentsl and otherwise, covering slight,ly more than 100 pages. The topics included are organic reagents, gas analysis, colorimetry and speet~.ophotometry, polarographs and smperometric titrations, chromatography and ion-exchange techniques, thermogravimetrio analysis, radiochemistry, and statistics. The reviewer has no quarrel with this list, but thinks others might well have been added. The treatment is necessarily brief, but extensive bibliographies are available a t the end of each ohapter. (In the areas with which the reviewer is most familiar, however, these do not in. elude references to the review articles which appear in Analytical Chernistru.) The reviewer thinks that some of the dozen cuts of commercial colorimetric and r e lated apparatus in Chapter 3 might well have been sacrificed in favor of one or two optical diagrams. The second part is a summary of the analytical chemistry of about 70 of the elements. The authors intentionally omit (Continued on page A470) JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION, OCTOBER, 1956
