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Recent Books The Spirit of Chemistry. An Introduction t o Chemistry for Students of the Liberal Arts. ALEXANDERFINDLAY, Professor of Chemistry. University of Aherdeen. Longmans. Green and Ca., London, New York, Toronto, 1930. 480 pp. 88 figures, 62 portraits xvi and illustrations. 21.5 X 14 em. $3.00.
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graph is given to the experimental work of the last five years on the wave properties of matter. The silence on the modern theories of solutions will also be disappointing to those who are dependent upon the genius of s man like Alexander Findlay to interpret for them the technicalities of modern science. Such topics would serve t o show the liberal arts student that chemistry is a growing science theoretically as well as industrially, and t h a t some of our most fundamental concepts are undergoing change. JOHNR. SAMPEY
~h~~~who read with pleasure and profit the author,s work, in the Service of Man,u will find in the present volume even a greater treat. Professor Findlay refers to the former as "the HOW*RDCOLLBCB first roueh B~RM~WGH ALIBAIA AM. - sketch of this work." "The Spirit of Chemistry" has more than twice the number of c h a ~ t e r soresent in the The Science of Everyday Life. EDGAR F. VANBUSEIRK,Head of the Departolder volume, and it is much fuller in ment of Science, Stephens College, historical and biographical material. he number of figures, portraits, and illustra. Columbia, Missouri; EDITH LILLIAN tions has also been increased. S ~ H Recently . Instructor, Boston while the book remains unsurpassed in Teachers' College; and WALTERL. the richness f, its historical and bio. NOURSE, Vice Principal. John Burgraphical features, it is somewhat disaproughs Junior High School. Los Anpoillting in its presentation industrial geles. Revised edition. Houghton TI,^ question of how much Mifflin Company, New York City, 1930. space should be devoted t o industrial xvii 620 PP. 297 figures. X l4 processes in a text for students of the Cm. $160. liberal arts is one upon which there is no Several excellent general science textagreement today among educators, hut books have appeared within the last few surely such important industries as those years, emphasizing the fact that general manufacturing rayon, paper, and electric science has came t o occupy a place of furnace products are deserving of more permanence in the science sequence of than one Page each. And few American secondary schools and that educators chemical engineers would allot twice the realize i t fills a mast vital need. More space t o the manufacture of candles t h a t than twice as many students are enrolled is given to the carbonization of coal. in general science as in any other science. The theoretical treatment is so masterly The present volume is a revision of a that the reviewer for one is ruffled that widely used textbook k s t appearing in the author did not treat some of the more 1919 and later revised in 1925. Two rerecent advances. The classical laws of visions of an originally meritorious textchemistry are developed fully and criti- hook in a little more than ten years is cally, and the illustrations and demon- indicative of the rapid changes occurring in strations of the same are aptly selected. science. A science textbook which is not The chapter on atomic structure closes, revised every five or so years is practically however, with scarcely a reference to the out of date. The authors were formerly Bohr and Lewis models, and only a para- general science teachers, giving them a 3018
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