7 DECEMBER 1889, Page 12

A Text - Book of Inorganic Chemistry. By Ira Remsen. (Macmillan.)—This volume,

on the whole, has much resemblance to Professor Remsen's smaller text-books. It is larger indeed, and it is fuller in treatment ; but then, we are not sure that the value of the work is dependent on its volume. The writer treats " general relations " with fullness, but, at the same time, with a want of decision which the student will not like. There is more temptation to the student to examine the reasons for a decision, than to study those reasons when they are simply stated and no inference drawn from them. Still, Professor Remsen's text-book is easy reading, if somewhat too dispassionate ; nor will it in any way be at variance with those already in the field.