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nursing." The book is more than an account of that, for its teaching is scientific, practical, and "humane." The first chapter is on the " humanity " of children's nursinga it is an inspiring guide to the young nurse entering on her'new work, describing the essential qualities needed by the nurse of sick children, and a general picture of her work and of the high obligations that rest upon her. As a compendium of principles, standards, and tradition, and as an introduction to the whole subject, this short opening chapter could hardly be bettered. The succeeding chapters are on the practical and scientific aspects of nursing in general, and the authors give simple and clear directions on nursing techniques accompanied by concise scientific explanations. The authors of the second part of the book discuss, chapter by chapter, the diseases of children, as well as the subject of dietetics. They preserve throughout a successful blend of the practical and the scientific, with the proper emphasis on nursing. The book closes with a number of short but uEeful appendices. The editor, Prof. Alan Moncrieff, and his medical and nursing collaborators are indeed to be congratulated on the past success and present merits of this book. They have done good service in promoting and spreading through Great Britain the' high standard of nursing long associated with the Great Ormond Street Hospital. It would perhaps be risky for the reviewer to suggest any improvement in a book so successful and so carefully planned and replanned. But the young nurse, a little bewildered by the multitude of diseases with their many names and symptoms, might be helped by a short section giving a general and simple account of pathology and of the special pathological features of children's diseases.