Excerpt from Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry AT the present time it is not altogether easy to say on what lines a text-book of Organic Chemistry should be written. To state in the preface that the Author hopes it will supply a long-felt want is not always an injudicious method of announcing the Author's belief in the readers of text-books For if the long-felt want Of the public is to have a re statement of all the Old facts once more, with nothing new, no critical faculty shown, and an obvious lack of evidence that the book can be used to broaden our outlook on other sciences as well as chemistry, then no doubt the desire of the public for the time being is satisfied. It certainly is to be regretted, however, that so many books on Organic Chemistry are published regardless of the fact that Organic Chemistry is a growing science. If one wants to know about a new piece of country, to obtain a large number of photographs all taken from the same place is Obviously a foolish thing to do. Yet book after book on Organic Chemistry is published, covering the same ground, with a fine disregard of the fact that to the pioneers the out look is constantly changing. A book that has practically nothing new in it except the description of a few more compounds is unnecessary. Fortunately, however, there are some text-books which are not mere narrations of facts, and which do point out, not only what has been done, but what might be accomplished, and which do make the reader think. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.