18 JULY 1891, Page 11

What Ails the Baby ? by John Dewar, M.D. (William

Paterson and Co.), is a compact, crisply written, carefully indexed, shilling book of less than a hundred pages, belonging to the excellent " Red Cross Series of Health Handbooks." Dr. Dewar, it need hardly be said, is not hampered by any of the traditions of the elders in dealing with infants. Thus, he says that milk from " one cow " for a child is a delusion when its parents are living in a town ; he thinks that even when such can be obtained, a child is safer when fed on mixed milk,—in the sense of milk from different cows. This is a book to be tested by a mother's or nurse's experiences. It will stand the test.