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.

TEXTILE OILS -- Oleic Acid -- Blended Wool Oils -- Oils for Cotton Dyeing, Printing and Finishing -- Turkey Red Oil -- Alizarine Oil -- Oleine -- Oxy Turkey Red Oils -- Soluble Oil-Analysis of Turkey Red Oil -- Finisher's Soluble Oil -- Finisher's Soap Softening -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Index.