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, in a letter to the Author, says: “I read ''your book with great pleasure. I have no doubt it will do good, and I'' ''hope you will continue your work. Nothing spoils our temper so much as'' having to unlearn in youth, manhood, and even old age, so many things ''which we were taught as children. A book like yours will prepare a far'' better soil in the child's mind, and I was delighted to have it to read to my children.”

The object of the author in this book is to present the philosophy of Chemistry in such a form that it can be made with profit the subject of College recitations, and furnish the teacher with the means of testing the ''students faithfulness and ability. With this view the subject has been'' developed in a logical order, and the principles of the science are taught independently of the experimental evidence on which they rest.

''“Translator and Editor have done justice to their trust. The text has'' all the force and flow of original writing, combining faithfulness to the author's meaning with purity and independence in regard to idiom; while the historical precision and accuracy pervading the work throughout, speak of the watchful editorial supervision which has been given to every scientific ''detail. . . . Altogether, the work may be said to have no parallel, either in'' point of fulness or attraction, as a popular manual of physical science.” — .