350  Book  Reviews.  { '^"'.hi?y,''i9n*""' 
been  pledged,  and  its  President,  Mr.  George  S.  Smith,  will  probable- 
welcome  the  association  to  the  city ;  Governor  Foss  and  Mayor  Fitz- 
gerald have  both  earnestly  assured  the  committee  of  their  desire  to 
extend  to  the  members  a  true  Boston  welcome. 
The  headquarters  of  the  association  will  be  at  the  Hotel  Vendome, 
one  of  the  noted  hotels  of  this  continent,  whose  walls  have  sheltered 
royalties  in  their  visits  to  Boston.  This  hotel  is  located  on  the 
famous  Commonwealth  Avenue,  one  of  the  finest  residential  avenues 
in  the  country;  within  a  stone's  throw  of  this  hotel  is  the  noble 
Copley  Square,  which  is  undeniably  one  of  the  finest  public  squares 
of  the  world,  vying  for  pre-eminence  with  the  Place  de  la  Concorde 
in  Paris. 
The  meetings  of  the  Association  will  be  so  arranged  as  to  give 
abundant  time  for  sight-seeing,  and  the  ladies  who  accompany  the 
members  will  be  taken  into  the  assiduous  care  of  the  Ladies'  Enter- 
tainment Committee,  of  which  Mrs.  Adelaide  Godding,  the  wife  of 
the  President-elect  of  the  association,  is  chairman ;  and  it  is  therefore 
certain  that  not  an  idle  or  a  tedious  moment  will  be  allowed  to 
intrude  its  attention  upon  any  of  the  fair  visitors  during  their  visit 
to  the  Hub. 
The  Committee  on  Entertainment  say  that  the  old  adage,  "  See 
Naples  and  die,"  has  been  recently  revised  and  now  reads,  "  See 
Boston  and  live ;  enriched  for  all  time  with  the  memory  of  its 
treasures,  and  of  its  hearty  New  England  welcome." 
Come  to  Boston  ! ! ! 
BOOK  REVIEWS. 
Organic  Chemistry  for  the  Laboratory.  By  W.  A.  Noyes, 
Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  University  of  Illinois.  Second 
Edition,  Revised  and  Enlarged.  Easton,  Pa.,  The  Chemical  Pub- 
lishing Company.  1911. 
Professor  Noyes  has  well  stated  in  his  preface  to  the  first  edition 
of  his  Laboratory  Manual  "  that  "  the  science  of  organic  chemistry 
rests,  for  its  experimental  foundation,  on  the  preparation,  usually 
by  synthetic  means,  of  pure  compounds.  Without  a  knowledge, 
based  on  personal  experience  in  the  laboratory,  of  the  relations 
involved  and  the  methods  which  may  be  used  in  such  preparations, 
no  satisfactory  knowledge  of  the  science  can  be  acquired." 
