11 AUGUST 1917, Page 18

How to Rcar a Baby. By Mrs. Frank Stephens. Health

Visitors' Edition. (Horace Marshall and Son.)—This little pamphlet is intended for very poor, or rather very ignorant, mothers. The advice and information which it gives are excellent. It insists on the two great necessities, fresh air and cleanlineas. But is it net perhaps a mistake to put such advice as that the expectant mother should wear clothes hung from her shoublers and do daily breathing exercises on a par with the recommendation that flies must he kept out of the baby's milk and that babies under six months must not be put into " sitting-up " go-carts T We fear that a prejudiced person might reject the maxims en bloc. A useful table of normal weights and instructions as to bottle-feeding are given.