#VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS:# Their Practical Preparation. Purification and Employment for Various Purposes, their Properties, Adulteration and Examination. Translated from the German of Louis Edgar ANDES. Ninety-four Illustrations. 340 pp. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 11s. home; 11s. 6d. abroad.) #Contents.# #General Properties# -- #Estimation of the Amount of Oil in Seeds# -- #The Preparation of Vegetable Fats and Oils# -- Apparatus for Grinding Oil Seeds and Fruits -- #Installation of Oil and Fat Works# -- Extraction Method of Obtaining Oils and Fats -- Oil Extraction Installations -- Press Moulds -- #Non-drying Vegetable Oils# -- #Vegetable drying Oils# -- #Solid Vegetable Fats# -- Fruits Yielding Oils and Fats -- Wool-softening Oils -- Soluble Oils -- Treatment of the Oil after Leaving the Press -- Improved Methods of Refining -- #Bleaching Fats and Oils# -- Practical Experiments on the Treatment of Oils with regard to Refining and Bleaching -- Testing Oils and Fats. #ESSENTIAL OILS AND PERFUMES.# #THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND ARTIFICIAL PERFUMES.# By Ernest J. PARRY, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S. 411 pp. 20 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home; 13s. 6d. abroad.) #Contents.# #The General Properties of Essential Oils# -- Compounds #occurring in Essential Oils# -- #The Preparation of Essential Oils# -- #The Analysis of Essential Oils# -- #Systematic Study of the Essential Oils# -- #Terpeneless Oils# -- #The Chemistry of Artificial Perfumes# -- #Appendix:# Table of Constants -- #Index#. #SOAPS.# #SOAPS.# A Practical Manual of the Manufacture of Domestic, Toilet and other Soaps. By George H. HURST, F.C.S. 390 pp. 66 Illustrations. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home; 13s. 6d. abroad.) #Contents.# #Introductory -- Soap-maker's Alkalies -- Soap Fats and Oils -- Perfumes -- Water as a Soap Material -- Soap Machinery -- Technology of Soap-making -- Glycerine in Soap Lyes -- Laying out a Soap Factory -- Soap Analysis -- Appendices.# #TEXTILE SOAPS AND OILS.# Handbook on the Preparation, Properties and Analysis of the Soaps and Oils used in Textile Manufacturing, Dyeing and Printing. By George H. HURST, F.C.S. Crown 8vo. 195 pp. 1904. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home; 5s. 6d. abroad.) #Contents#. #Methods of Making Soaps# -- Hard Soap -- Soft Soap. #Special Textile Soaps# -- Wool Soaps -- Calico Printers' Soaps -- Dyers' Soaps. #Relation of Soap to Water for Industrial Purposes# -- Treating Waste Soap Liquors -- Boiled Off Liquor -- Calico Printers and Dyers' Soap Liquors -- #Soap Analysis# -- #Fat in Soap#. ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS -- Tallow -- Lard -- Bone Grease-Tallow Oil. #Vegetable Soap, Oils and Fats# -- Palm Oil -- Coco-nut Oil -- Olive Oil -- Cottonseed Oil -- Linseed Oil -- Castor Oil -- Corn Oil -- Whale Oil or Train Oil -- Repe Oil. GLYCERINE.