So much labor and pains by wise and skilful men for no better result! What a pity! The day of compound books by many authors is past. Any article good enough to be worth inclusion in such a work should be printed separately. Landis' fine summary of the treatment of tuberculosis ought to be in the hands of thousands who can never buy these bulky volumes. So with Riesman on typhoid and Leonard Rogers on plague. They will not reach the readers who need them most.