24 APRIL 1897, Page 12

Stories from the Diary of a Doctor. By L. T.

Meade and Clifford Halifax, M.D. (Bliss, Sands, and Foster.)—Dr. Clifford Halifax is evidently a very clever man. He cures, for instance, a case of congenital blindness which the greatest specialists had given up as hopeless. And, indeed, he needs all his cleverness, for he goes through a series of the most extraordinary adventures and ex- periences. But this, as may be supposed, makes a very interesting book, much superior to that with which one naturally compares it, Samuel Warren's " Diary of a Late Physician," superior because it has more reality about it, and less rhodomontade.