Text-books of Physical Chemistry

Abstract

(1) WALKER'S “Introduction to Physical Chemistry ” appears to share with Roscoe and Schorlemmer's “Treatise on Chemistry” the gift of perpetual youth, if not of immortality, since it has now reached a tenth edition, and shows no signs of decay in its twenty-ninth year. There is perhaps something in common which keeps these books in steady demand over so long a period of years, and that something (it may be surmised) is a sound appreciation of values, which has led to the retention of things that matter, even if old, and to a cautious inclusion of new matter only if likely to be of permanent utility. In other words, the secret of youth seems to depend on permitting a natural process of ageing and avoiding artificial efforts to keep young.

(1) Introduction to Physical Chemistry.

By Sir James Walker. Tenth edition. Pp. xii + 446. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 16s. net.

(2) Elementary Physical Chemistry.

Adapted from “A Treatise on Physical Chemistry”. By Prof. Hugh S. Taylor. Pp. ix + 531. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 16s. net.

(3) Theoretical and Experimental Physical Chemistry.

By Dr. James Codrington Crocker Dr. Prank Matthews. Pp. viii + 581. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1927.) 21s. net.

(4) Lehrbuch der physikalischen Chemie.

Von Prof. Dr. Karl Jellinek. Fünf Bände. Zweite, vollständig umgearbeitete Auflage. Band 1: Grundprinzipien der physikalischen Chemie, die Lehre vom Fluiden, Aggregatzustand reiner Stoffe. Pp. liv + 966. 82 gold marks. Band 2, Lieferung 4. Pp. 272. 21 gold marks. (Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1928.)