610 with but an imperfect sense of responsibility. But taken as a whole, it is the most, important surgical work which has ever issued from the English press. It is a great honour to a surgeon, comparatively young as is Mr. Holmes, to have been entrusted with the editing of so great a work; but now that it is completed, it is only fair to say that he has .executed the difficult task with ability, fidelity, and judgment. His own personal contributions are of a high order, and both in choice of

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... thors and arrangement of subjects there seems rarely any fault to find.