The Threshold of Motherhood. By IL Douglas Howat, L.R.C., L.R.C.S.,
L.R.F.P.S. (Glasgow : Maclehose, Jackson and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Howat has written an excellent little text-book of midwifery—a text-book, as he explains in his preface, not intended for the use of the doctor or the nurse, but for that even more important person, the patient. The Threshold of Mother- hood is thoroughly sensible and up to date both in the matter and manner of the information it conveys. Many women are rather tired of what we may call the " wonderful-little-stranger " attitude being adopted in handbooks and mixed up with prac- tical details like brands of soap and lists of vests and flannels. But while carefully avoiding the sentimental and ecstatic, Dr. Howat also avoids alarming accounts of possible mischances such as might depress a nervous patient. The book is as simply as it is sensibly written.
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