He was also, in his youth, a keen cyclist and his name and details of a race (in London) from Finchley to Welwyn and back appear in a copy of a US cycle magazine.
An identically titled work by American chemist Francis Gano Benedict (1870–1957), was first published in 1901 and acknowledges Newth's book.
Newth's Inorganic Chemistry (the most popular and remembered of his 5 books) was first published in 1894 although the earliest copy in the British Library is 1896.
An American chemist, George D. Timmons, had a book called Questions on Newth's Inorganic Chemistry published in 1912.
[18] A memoir of Herbert Marcus Powell (1906–1991) mentions a poem he wrote about chemicals ('The Chemists Dream') which included a reference to G S Newth.
[19] Newth's books offer insight into late Victorian chemistry for schools and colleges; he was in many ways ahead of his time.