The English version of Volume IIofBrauer's "Handbook follows the path of the vary well received translation of Volume I, Agatvt some of the material and particularly the bibliography has been corrected and brought up to date. Tbe nomenclature has been revised where nee essaiy, with the Stockandtbe S took-Wemer systems (the practice of using Roman numerals to define oxidation states of atoms) adopted as much as possible. ThlsconformBWlthcurrent I. U. P. A. C. and Chemical Abstracts practice Jfor details of ttaia, see Robert C. Brasted, J. Chem. Education 35, 136 {1946)]. The references to laboratory equipment and techniques reflect current U.S. usage, but useful European methods have been retained.