The General Practitioner's Guide to Diseases and Injuries of the Eye and Eyelids

is so great as to cause the omission of large portions of the subject there are grave objections to the plan. The author of the small work before us says in the preface that " brevity" has been his aim, so that busy practitioners, who have not time to read " more comprehensive " works, may yet be able to turn to his in the hour of need. Most men in active practice do not, however, read text-books?large or small? systematically through, but use their library for reference only ; and for this purpose a work which embraces the whole of