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Moreover he recognizes the limitations of laboratory work in secondary instruction, holding that perhaps one-third of the time given to the study is sufficient for this. He has made a fresh and interesting book. His chief aim is to help the pupil to think scientifically, and to this end he has given more attention than usual to chemical theory, evolving skillfully those general laws which help to the rational explanation of matter and chemical changes. This we believe to be pedagogically sound. Another feature of his book which seems to us deserving of especial commendation is the historic notes which are scattered through it, brief resumés of the steps by which the subject under discussion attained to the conceptions at present prevalent in its treatment. This not only adds to the interest of the topic, but puts the pupil in right relations to it. 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