Miscellaneous Intelligence. 297 
much as = therefore the writer has not thought it expedient to 
__ insert the many long and prolix tables upon the subject of heat which 
the larger works upon Physics contain.” “At the same time we venture 
the assertion, that in the condensed matter contained in this volume the 
student will not fail to find the laws of these sciences, and the principal 
: sen associated “sis their revelation clearly explained.” 
. an able chemist, and has the merit of being the — 
“expounder i in our dangeagt of the chemical school of Liebig. We 
_ teadily i simgine the vexation he must feel, and with it the minwalliill 
_ ‘ontempt for American science, at the manner in which his handbooks 
are ca presented. as never been our misfortune to see any 
more sadly spoiled by the bungling of an editor. His ignorance 
of his subject is equalled only by his — and his short-comings in 
syntax. These broad assertions find ample illustration and support on 
ied page which is not a literal mr tote Dr. Gregory. His bad 
ee even mo more energies than he supposed.” That is, Newton aecaae oré 
than he was aware of. The student is informed (p. 39) that “the nar 
oe of the undulations or waves in an attenuated ether, may per- 
for the present answer for the luminous rays, but it will not stand 
te test in 'Tegard to those more refrangible ones which produce chemi- 
action. 
The following felicitous sentences introduce the student to chromatic 
“Th 
polarization. following. di eopied from Woodward) will 
Masteie ng diagram ( 
= rendere 
in his able work upon tao’ ae. &e.” -W. = no ent a state- 
ied 
” giving numerous minute and technical “details 20s 
of y, which, grantin r importan 
proper place, are completely out of place in a Handbook of id 
chemistry. 
— 
gh Dr. Bend le of 
ers d deep conviction that the whole theory 
Physical optics Teante epan es fT cach costae equilibrium, that unless he con- 
hor reminds his readers of the fact, 0 me of them may unfortunately rest too 
in it, 
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