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ABSTRACT IT is rare in these degenerate days to find an enthusiast for the teaching of qualitative analysis, who regards it as “a source of joy to the majority of normal minds,” and as


affording “the keenest delight and satisfaction.” For analysis, as it is taught, is usually an arid tract, which the student is compelled to traverse on the way to earning a grant or


receiving a degree, not a fertile country which he can cultivate with profit and pleasure. Yet one is bound to confess that these pages reflect the author's interest in his subject, and


leave the impression that, in the hands of such a teacher, analysis might possess the attributes he describes. This is effected by making the student discover and tabulate the reactions for


himself. Thus, the mere mechanical following of directions is, to a great extent, avoided, and the student is freed from the burden of making his own observations correspond with the


printed information in his textbook. For an elementary book the subject is very fully treated. It is not intended to be used without some assistance from the demonstrator, and consequently


many details of manipulation are suppressed. Qualitative Chemical Analysis. By John B. Garvin Pp. viii + 241. (Boston: Heath and Co., 1902.) Price 3_s_. 6_d_. Access through your institution


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