I really love those old chem books and their idealistic authors.
Me too...and especially the one author who wrote the abovementioned and a lot of other interesting books, not to mention his famous work "Chemie-Lexikon" (Roempps Encyclopedia of Chemistry) ;D
These old books can still be bought from our favorite auction site, are well worth reading and are highly recommended. Too bad that these books are not published in English ::)