The Works of John Caius, M.D. With a Memoir of
his life by John Venn. Edited by E. S. Roberts. (Cambridge University Press. 18s. not.)—The quatercentonary of the birth of John Caine occurred in 1910, and the present volume is edited by the Master of Gonville and Caine College in commemoration of the occasion at the request of the governing body of the College and of the Royal College of Physicians. Antiquarians and students of the history of medicine will find the volume interesting if they are prepared to overcome the difficulties of its crabbed Latin. An English translation of Caius's "Treatise of English° Dogges " is appended. from which we must quote a sentence about the dog called "the Mooner, because he doth nothing else but watch and warde at an ynche, wasting the wearisome night season without slombering or sleeping, hawing & wawing at the Moone (that I may use the word of Nonius), a qualitie in mine opinion straunge to consider." Dr. Venn gives, by way of preface to the volume, an interesting account of Caius's life.
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