Chemistry in Daily Life. By Professor Lassar-Cohu. (H. Grovel and
Co.)—Some lectures delivered by Professor Lasser- Cohn, of Heidelberg, are herein translated by Mr. Pattison Muir, and we hope they will prove as interesting to the English reader as they have done to the German public. We know so much more about the "chemistry of life" that the reader will read much that is embodied in this volume with a very clear idea of what it is all about. It is not, of course, so exhaustive on the question as the well-known "Chemistry of Common Life," but the average reader will find cooking, wine, digestion, spirits, and foods generally, clearly discussed, and will be able to grasp the most important points in the manufacture and use of paper, glass, Greek fire, coal-gas, explosives, iron, steel, soap, &c., and a chapter on bimetallism. This is a most readable volume, and can be understood by any one.
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