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The Mothers' Manual of Children's Diseases. By Charles West, M.D.

(Longmans.)—This volume is the outcome of a very extensive experience as a " children's doctor." The anther explains that he does not intend it as a "handbook for the nursery," still less as an attempt to supply a substitute for the doctor. He gives "a descrip- tion of the diseases of early life." By its help the mother may recognise them when they occur, and second the doctor's efforts to care them. Incidentally, of course, a good deal of advice is given in the coarse of its pages. Such subjects as " artificial feeding," " infantile indigestion," and the like, necessarily suggest a practical treatment. From any point of view this will be a useful volume.