The Doctor and His Patients. By Arthur E. Hertzler. (Bodley
Head. 12S. 6d.) THIS is a book of elderly advice on love and marriage by the author of The Horse and Buggy Doctor—a book of old-fashioned charm which had a great success in the land which invented Mother's Day. The chapters have poetic names with, the truth in brackets—the truth must always be looked for in brackets : " Paradise Visioned (The Child Learns of Love and Sex)," " Dream of Paradise (The Honeymoon and After)," " The Struggle for Paradise (The Happy American Home)," and so on. The advice—to the hard-boiled modern ear—seems some- times a little strange, and there is an affecting story of a wife whose husband unexpectedly ordered her to milk the cows. " Who remembers when they first tried to milk a cow? Suppose you were not raised for such work but a recently acquired husband insisted that you do it. Only hate could be the result." This is a book which should not be put in the hands of any young people under the age of sixty-five.
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