88 Chemical Works. 
upon a theatre less vast, occupies and charms us by the elements 
that it employs, the processes that it invents, the experiments that it 
undertakes, the success that it obtains. Its attractive studies are 
constantly animated and sustained by variety and interest ; and when 
it has, like agriculture, loaded us with real blessings, its cheering pic- 
tures come once more to embellish our dreams, while the laborer 
fatigued finds only heavy slumbers on a glebe too often rebellious. 
Soutance Boni. 
Ant. X.—Chemical Works. 
1. Branpe’s Manvau.—This valuable work, (especially in the 
improved edition of Prof. McNeven of New York,) is extensive- 
ly known in this country. A new English edition, three volumes 
in two, with the latest revision of the author, is announced in the 
London Journals. It will of course embrace all the improvements 
and corrections in the science, and as it will doubtless be republished 
in this country, it will add to the means of information in chemical 
science already possessed by our students. 
r. Turner’s Exements; third American, from the second 
and latest English edition. The American editions of this excellent 
work, published by Mr. John Grigg of Philadelphia, under the vigi- 
lant and accurate revision of Dr. Franklin Bache, have made it fa- 
miliar to the scientific public of this country. Dr. Bache has cor- 
rected such errors of typography or inadvertence as were observed 
in the English editions, and our students, therefore, possess a chem- 
ical work which, in the American editions, is not only the cheapest 
in the language,* but inferior to none in precision, accuracy, dis- 
crimination and just philosophical views. Dr. Turner’s Elements 
are a medium between the larger and smaller works, and upon the 
scale which he has adopted, there is no better chemical book. 
Within the limits which he has prescribed to himself, it is imposs- 
ble to present to the student a more judicious selection of facts, o 
more scientific deductions from them. We understand from a friend, 
who is now attending on Dr. Turner’s courses in the London Univer 
sity, that he is very skilful in manipulation and extremely happy ” 
his experiments. From so active and accomplished a teacher and 
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* Confining the remark to the most complete elementary books. 
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