CHEMISTRY IN VERSE.
Mr J. Carrington Sellars, F.C.S., Birkenhead, has published what he calls “ Chemistianiby, a poem ; also an oratorical verse on each known chemical element in the universe, giving description, properties, sources, preparation, and chief uses, arranged for familiar or memory reading, 15 Tins << poeiß. ,> contains 3,000 lines of verse, and statements of two thousand facts relating to inorganic chemistry. It is simply prose cut into very limping, uneqilal measure. Mr Sellars forecasts the triumphs of chemistry in the following language :
By thorough knowledge of heat extraction W e yet may freeze water evtensively ; In double wall’d, tiled, and maindrained alleys. Ice laid, or set with refrigerating tubes, Ur inclined skate roads with freezing stations. Make we roads for goods and passengers : By using trains still-worked by vapour force Whose obedient strength on such slipp’ry paths Would swiftly impel to uttermost; safe speed.
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Evening Star, Issue 3486, 25 April 1874, Page 3
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144CHEMISTRY IN VERSE. Evening Star, Issue 3486, 25 April 1874, Page 3
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