99 WIMPOLE STREET By J. Johnston Abraham
All of these essays (Chapman and Hall, 5s.) are written with the fresh- ness and pungency that has already secured more than a quarter of a cen- tury's life for Mr. Johnston Abraham's well-known Surgeon's Log. They range from a provocative but seriously con- sidered study of the underlying motives governing women's dress and the periodical changes in its fashions to a wise, moving, and on the whole, com- forting chapter on the fear of death. The chapter. on Harley Street and all it connotes should go far to dispel many popular illusions and misunderstandings about that sacred area. And in another wise and amusing article on what doctors think of novelists, Mr. Abraham deals trenchantly with the extraordinary
inaccuracies that are continually to be found—and might so easily have been avoided—in the pages. of otherwise admirably written and-seriously con- ceived novels.
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