THIS is -really more like a series of after-dinner conversations
than a planned and proportioned autobiography, and, as the latter, it suffers a little in consequence. But if it is somewhat disconnected, the author's method—or lack of it--enables him to digress wisely and amusingly into various by-roads of reminiscence. Medicine, travel and politics have all interested him. But his main study, as all who have benefited by his administration at Mundesley will know, has been the problem of tuberculosis, the various measures taken to combat or prevent it, and particularly the sanatorium movernent, with which he has been associated since its earliest days in this country. It was because he himself became suddenly and quite unexpectedly a sufferer in his early professional life that he decided to devote him- self to this particular speciality. And as a personal example of a successful cure and a man with a very wide experience, he is able to give weighty and considered advice on the various lines of attack as well as upon those domestic_ dilemmas that necessarily confront so many tubercular patients. To these and their friends and to his professional brethren this book can be recommended.
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