"One of the most admirable little text-books I have ever seen."
T.H. Norton, Projessor of Chemistry, Cincinnati University, O.:
"Its clearness, accuracy, and compact form render it exceptionally well adapted for use in high and preparatory schools. I shall warmly recommend it for use, whenever the effort is made to provide satisfactory training in accordance with the requirements for admission to the scientific courses of the University."
CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS
General and Analytical. By R.P. WILLIAMS, Instructor in Chemistry, English High School, Boston. 8vo. Boards. xv + 212 pages. Fully illustrated. Mailing price, 60 cents; for introduction, 50 cents.
This book is for the use of students in the chemical laboratory.
It contains more than one hundred sets of the choicest
illustrative experiments, about half of which belong to General
Chemistry, the rest to Metal and Acid Analysis.
Great care has been taken to describe accurately and minutely the methods of performing experiments, and in directing pupils to observe phenomena and to explain what is seen. The work is amply illustrated and is replete with questions and suggestions. Blank pages are inserted for pupils to make a record of their work, for which careful directions are given, with a model, laboratory rules, tables of solubilities, etc.
A new feature is the supplementary and original work, vhich is given at the end of each set of experiments for such pupils as complete the prescribed work ahead of others in the class, and a list of terms to be looked up in some text-book. This gives an elasticity to the book and fits it for use in schools where much time is devoted to chemistry, as well as in the most elementary classes in labortttory work.
Another original feature which it is believed will be heartily welcomed by teachers is the method of treating Metal Analysis successfully used by the author for several years.
Briefly, the aim of this book is to aid the pupil to do, to observe, to explain, to record, aud thus to learn the essentials of chemistry.