| Show BOOKS DOOKs we have received I 1 hrom irom scribner gc co of newyork otNer ofner NeW York copies of spelter lert leet I 1 and a text bookoff chemistry by leroy loroy 0 cooley A M works recently published y them arter alter a careful examination lof lot the speller we are convinced that while it has almost if not every point of excellence possessed poss posa essed by any other work of the tho baale same class it has some peculiarly its own and as a teacher of the tho oid old method of english orthography tho 0 graphy aaby has no superior uie lie text book of chem chemistry try we have submitted to a gentleman in this city a skillful amateur inthe in the science balence of chemistry 9 well qualified from years of study to pronounce with judgment aa as to its real merits the following is 19 his 1 cri tiple of the work this valuable book brings the student into acquaintance with chemistry in its present state so far as its elementary principles permit nothing seems to be lost sight of to make this a complete text textbook book for high schools and academies step by step in an easy manner the student ascends from the most simple to the most advanced I 1 principles rin I 1 es one no thing at a time and every thing n in rits fita natural order are distinguishing t g I 1 ng features of its mode of imparting I 1 formation simplicity 4 and system also aiso a c characterize so the work chemistry as it was Is not forgotten while chemi chemistry etry as it is is forced upon the attention side by side old and new names the notation of the past ash ast and present are that those fam familiar liar ilar with standard works of earlier days may understand those of today to day As to the student every facility to acquire knowledge is offered modern nomenclature is explain edthe necessity for and uses of a symbolic language shown the mode of solving problems by equations is simplified substances are grouped in a natural order to make general investigation possible light in its relation to chemical phenomena the spectroscope and ana stellar chemistry with results of recent analysis the nature and conservation of forces and everything necessary ito eto to a correct understanding of elementary chemistry may be fauni found in this interesting and instructive tive tiTe manual |
