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 u'hen 

 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. 



SOULANGE BODIN. 



Art. X. — Chemical Works. 



1. Brande's Manual. — This valuable work, (especially in the 

 improved edition of Prof. McNeven of New York,) is extensive- 

 ly known in tbis country. A new English edinon, 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. 



2. Dr. Turner's Elements ; 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 impossi- 

 ble to present to the student a more judicious selection of facts, or 

 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 in 

 his experiments. From so active and accomplished a teacher and 



^ Confining tVio remark (o (he mo?( complefn elcmenfory books. 



