29 JUNE 1895, Page 11

Night - Lights. By Arthur Broadfield Frost. (Situpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—These "

Shadows from a Doctor's Reading-Lamp " are concerned, as might be supposed, with shadow rather than light. They show the seamy side of the medical profession. We see the doctor in a poor neighbourhood with his cheap and ready pre- scriptions, the out-patients' room of the hospital, with all its varieties of imposture and folly, and other places and scenes which one would gladly change if it were possible. But our writer is not always cynical and satirical. He can recognise and appreciate honest work. The fun is, perhaps, somewhat laborious, strained in quality, and excessive in quantity. Still, the book is distinctly entertaining.