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This collection of previously printed articles by W. Mattieu Williams is of interest to all readers who are sufficiently intelligent to prefer sober fact to sensational fiction, but who, at the same time, do not profess to be scientific specialists. The author has combined clearness and simplicity with an attempt at philosophy.

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Excerpt from The Chemistry of CookeryDuring the infancy of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, when my classes in Cannon Street constituted the whole of its teaching machinery, I delivered a course of lectures to ladies on Household Philosophy, ' in which The Chemistry of Cookery' was included. In collecting material for these lectures, I was surprised at the strange neglect of the subject by modern chemists.On taking it up again, after an i...

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Excerpt from The Chemistry of Iron and Steel Making: And of Their Practical UsesTh e men who had reached this stage rapidly developed a desire for more and more scientific knowledge, each additional step increasing the desire for further progress as if increasing appetite had grown by what it fed on but in their efforts to make uch progress they suffered much discouragement from the lack of any means of obtaining direct instruction in what the...

Excerpt from A Vindication of PhrenologyI was first introduced to Felice Orsini, a highly educated, refined, and courteous Italian gentleman, in the autumn of 1857, and having lived for a while in Italy and witnessed the iniquities of the Austrian, Papal, and Ducal despotisms that crushed the nation, I heartily sympathised with his patriotic yearnings for the liberation of his country. He told me that the people were preparing for a great effo...

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Excerpt from A Vindication of Phrenology I was first introduced to Felice Orsini, a highly educated, refined, and courteous Italian gentleman, in the autumn of 1857, and having lived for a while in Italy and witnessed the iniquities of the Austrian, Papal, and Ducal despotisms that crushed the nation, I heartily sympathised with his patriotic yearnings for the liberation of his country. He told me that the people were preparing for a great ef...