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The Rise and Development of Organic Chemistry. By Carl Schor-

lemmer. (Macmillan and Co.)—This most important work was first published in 1479, but has been out of print, we are told, since. It has been •-xtensively revised as to style, and is distinctly improved. It is an exceptionally able work, and has been well edited by Mr. Arthur Smithella. A fine portrait of the great chemical philoso- pher figures as a frontispiece. Every chemist ought to possess what we may call with justice the first history of the development of organic chemistry.