420 Miscellaneous Bibliography. 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1. A Manual of Inorganic Chemistry arranged to facilitate the experi- 
mental demonstration of the Facts and Principles of the Science; by 
Cuaries W. Exiort, oe of Analytical Chemistry and Metallurgy, 
and Frank H. Srorsr, Professor of General and Industrial Chemistry 
in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Boston. Printed for the 
authors. 1867.—We have received advance sheets of a good portion of 
this work, which will be completed in June. A careful examination of 
the 420 pages before us leads us to believe that the book will greatly 
contribute to extend the study of chemistry in this country. There are 
comparatively few students who can easily master chemistry under the 
system of teaching that now prevails. It is, on the one hand, impossible 
to make rapid progress in the acquisition of the facts of the science with- 
outa ope oe eerie naa and on the other hand, principles cannot 
take a firm hol e mind except as demonstrated by facts. The true 
method of seating hsenietey is in imitation of the process by which 
the science has been created, and this is primarily one of experiment and 
induction. 
Tn the book under notice, the authors open with a brief introduction of 
four pages, in which the objects and scope of chemistry are concisely de- 
fined. Then they enter at once upon the consideration of the science 
count of common phenomena which are ndcpasth after the natural method. 
Macaairations on page 27, the discussion of atoms and molecu 
is se ieae uced. In similar manner notation, typical and dualistic fons 
porn homologous series, and the most de Mea RE of 
chemical physics are introduced in their a 
science. While not rejecting the established modes of expression in 
shereby to enedy with profit and zest the writings of Wurtz, Kekule, Od- 
ce Hofmann, and Frankland. 
The adaptation to experimental teaching meets a want which has been 
pressingly felt, and should ensure the establishment of new working 
laboratories in our higher as as well as the practical drilling of 3 
much larger number of students in those now in operation. The experi- 
ments, more more than 200 in number, soil wall described and easy of exe 
