5 AUGUST 1905, Page 26

How to Manage a Baby. By Mrs. Frank Stephens. (Horace

Marshall and Son. Id.)—It is important at this moment to have available some simple pamphlets published at a low price con- taining plain directions as to the management of infants. This little book will be found a sensible example of this kind of literature, both because it contains very few fads, and because, being sold for a penny, it can be obtained by young mothers who have very little money to spend even on so important a subject as health. Dr. W. Collingridge prefaces the pamphlet with a short introduction, in which it would have been better, perhaps, to avoid touching on so controversial a subject as the ethics of municipal trading. Mrs. Stephens has packed a great deal of information into the small space at her disposal, and evidently knows the subject on which she writes.