Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.

Chemistry

2 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

Chemistry

IN the eleventh century, and during the reign of King Henry the First, surnamed Beauclerk, or the fine scholar, there appeared for the…

Chemistry: Non-metallic

These ultimate elements amount of 64 in number, according to the present state of our knowledge, and may be arranged in various ways; the…

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