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REVIEWS. 
notice of Parliament at no distant date. It is impossible to 
predict what course the legislature may take, but it is to be 
hoped that no circumstances will arise to cause the removal 
of a very important safeguard to the stock of the country. 
Keviews. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.—H or. 
A Manual of Elemeiitary Chemistry^ Theoretical and Prac¬ 
tical. By George Fownes, F.B.S., late Professor of 
Practical Chemistry in University College, London. 
Tenth Edition. London : John Churchill & Sons. 
After long and anxious waiting on the part of many 
teachers and students of chemistry, the tenth edition of this 
most popular chemical manual has at length appeared under 
the joint editorship of Dr. Bence Jones and Mr. Henry Watts. 
For very many years Fownes’ manual was the text-book 
at probably every medical, veterinary, and other school 
throughout the kingdom, in which chemistry was taught; but 
it has recently fallen into desuetude, owing to the arrange¬ 
ment of the matter, as well as the notation and nomenclature 
adopted not being in accordance with the theoretical views 
held by the majority of both English and foreign chemists of 
the present day. 
In the edition just published, and to which we are now 
directing attention, these objections have been in great 
measure removed, so that we may expect ere long to see the 
work regain its original character, notwithstanding the 
recent publication of ^ Lessons,’ ^ Manuals, ^Outlines,’ ^ Budi- 
ments,’ &c., by many other able authors. 
The high reputation of the original work was due to the 
great talent displayed by Professor Fownes in the arrange¬ 
ment and condensation of the matter which he selected, witli 
