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Handbook of Physiology. By W. D. Halliburten. (J. Murray. 113s.

-net.)—The publieher's note to tho twenty-sixth edition of this well-known text-book states that the first edition was written by W. S. Kirkes in 1848 from the notes of Sir James Paget, and that aueoessive editors rapidly transformed it, to embody the changing theories of modern physiology, so that even in 1867 little of the original matter remained. Professor Hittliburten, who became the editor in 1896, wrote the book of ; under him it has had thirteen editions land niaintains its hold as a standard book.