The chapter on hereditary syphilis is of value ; but the matter might, it seems to us, have been more clearly aud systematically arranged. We were also disappointed to find, in so comprehensive a work, no statement of the author's own views with regard to the deformities of the teeth first described by llutchinson, aud on which so much stress has been laid by that writer and by Fouruier. Dr. Taylor's large experience must have afforded him ample opportunity for studying this poiut, and we

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... also have been glad to have a more distinct and critical discussion of the so-called syphilis hereditaria tarda. Possibly an elabration of these subjects may be possible in a later edition. Traitement des Maladies des Femmes par L' \l=E' \lectricit\l=e' \. Par le DR. L. R. Regnier. Paris: Progr\l =e'\s M\l=e'\dical Bureaux. It is a curious fact that the French, who have been of late the most active exponents of the most radical gynecology extantthe application of vaginal hysterectomy to comparatively minor indications are at the same time by all odds the most earnest advocates of the moat expectant of all gynecological methods, the treatment of major affections by electricity. This book furnishes an extended description of the French views of the usefulness of gynecological electrotherapeutics. After the usual historical introduction, it gives a clear and complete description of the methods of managing the current, and thence proceeds to discuss the application of electricity to almost all known gynecological ailments. By all odds the most valuable chapters are those devoted to the treatment of menstrual troubles, uterine tumors and certain neuroses. Handatlas der Anatomie des Menschen. With 750 illustrations, in part colored, with text. By Werner Spalteholz, Extraordinary Professor at Leipzig, with the support of WM. His. Vol. I, Part II. Leipzig: S. Hirzel. 1896. We have already praised the first part of this work some months ago. Our good opinion is strengthened by the second, now before us, which completes the illustration of the ligaments, and adds some beautiful thin sections of boue showing the trabeculae, to the osteology. The illustrations of the ligaments are truly admirable, both for the dissection and for the representation of it. In some cases, perhaps, the dissection has beeu carried to the borders of the artificial ; but we are not sure that this is always a defect. To dissections have been added sections, which we only wish were more numerous. So far as it has appeared, it promises to be the best thing of its kind we have seen. T. D. Believing that the size aud expense of his " Manual of Bacteriology," published in 1892, might restrict its usefulness among students of medicine and biology, the author has issued under the above title practically a second edition of his well-known work, from which he has eliminated the detailed descriptions of nonpathogenic bacteria and the extensive bibliography contained in the Manual. The resulting volume of 693 pages, although nearly two hundred pages smaller than its predecessor, still forms a large aud haudsome book. Inasmuch as the arrangement of tho subject-matter remains the same ae in his Manual, anil the text has beeu only so far changed in places as to keep it fully abreast of the most recent advances iu the science of bacteriology, no detailed account of tho work is necessary. It remains unquestionably tho best book in the English language on the subject of which it treats. It is particularly useful on account of its completeness as a book of reference when some unusual form of bacterium has to be identified. Curiously enough, however, the subject of actinomycosis ¡8 omitted both from the Text-book and from the Manual, although the actinomyces are included by Günther in his list of the thirty most important pathogenic bacteria. To be sure, the classification of actinomyces has not yet been positively determined, but so long as the most recent authorities agree that it belongs to the pleomorphous bacteria, it would seem that this very important organism should be included in so extensive a work as this. It was also noted that the index contained no reference to Löfller's blood-serum mixture described in the chapter on the Bacteria iu Diphtheria. In conclusion, we should say for the benefit of those to whom the work is unknown, that it is very tastefully bound, is well printed on good paper, aud contains numerous excellent illustrations. A Manual of the Practice of Medicine. By George Roe Lockwood, M.D., and others. With 75 illustrations in the text and 22 full-page colored plates. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1896. It has been the author's aim to present in this Manual the essential facts and priuciples of the practice of medicine in a concise aud available form, aud thus " to meet the requirements of those who have been obliged to resort to the larger works of reference with which medical literature is so well supplied." The author has accomplished his aim sufficiently well, but we do not quite see the demand for its being accomplished at all at the present time. He himself realizes that medical literature is well supplied with larger works of reference. We should say it was equally well supplied with smaller manuals. However, this is a question which writers and publishers will decide for themselves. It is difficult to welcome a new Practice of Medicine with much enthusiasm. The present volume is really a manual aud has 935 pages. The Medical Record Visiting List and Physicians' Diary for 1897. New revised edition. New York: William Wood & Co. 1896. This last edition of this well-known visiting list has been revised and the list of remedies, etc., brought thoroughly up to date. Beside the list of remedies with their doses, a table is given of the number of drops of various liquid remedies in a fluid drachm, a list of convenient solutions of various drugs for hypodermic injection, a list of poisons and their antidotes, etc., arranged in compact aud convenient form. The visiting lists aud pages for memoranda, etc., form the bulk of the book, which is durably and couvenieutly bouud for the purpose for which it was intended. It seems fitted in almost every particular to be a convenient and aerviceable vade mecum for the physician.