334 Remarks on Chemical Theory, and on 
chemistry—La Grange and the abridgments of Thompson 
and Murray, Chaptal,  havaidies hus) Brande, and even 
Henry,* it has, we believe, a right to claima peculiar character 
as being more full than any of them, and more philosophical 
than most of them, while it is not encumbered with more of 
the details of the practical parts of the subject, than are ne- 
cessary to illustrate the philosophy of the science, which ap- 
pears to be the great object of the wo 
i would be saying a prea deal to adfiren that any work 
neiple 
stated with great mht elect is tippy ind we 
+ oe that few of Dr. ’s statements relating either 
le or practice can be seriously invalidated. His 
Bonk: Sinn eesbataibalt its standing for more than twenty years, 
i onl nearly half that number of editions. 
not meri to be soon superceded—it had its 
feebler youth—it outh=it now Hourishes in vigorous maturity, and it 
. Idage. ‘Thereisindeed 
Sowticonts between the works of Dr. Henry and Dr. 
Gorham, Each has its appropriate object and mode of exe- 
cution, and we think Dr. Gorham having resolved to ge be- 
in giving his work the ate ee ee 
blance th 
hy of chemistry. more resem! 
elements (in two vo! sclomsis)iat Wirhuas Leaoansd a: Maiey, 
cent than is latest ea but it is fuller, and much more re- 
es inthis country Scones ciagestuet hemistry 
