22 DECEMBER 1888, Page 27

Our Nurses, and the Work they have to Do. By

H. C. O'Neill and. Edith A. Barnett. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is an admirable little handbook for nurses. Not that any handbook can teach the art of nursing any better than a handbook can teach the art of cooking. But for those who have learnt nursing in the only way in which it can be learned, by training under experienced hands, such a book as this is most useful in giving proportion and clear- ness to their conception of their duty as a whole, and in reminding them of the weighty reasons for the various precautions which they have learned to practise. It is very clearly written, and seems to be very well arranged.