The Surgery of the Kidney

This work, coming after Mr. Morris's admirable monograph, does not appear at the most favourable time. It is the Jacksonian Prize Essay of 1886, and was written before Mr. Morris's work appeared. What the Jacksonian Prize is, and how, why, and wherefore it is awarded, we have not the remotest idea. But if, in 1886, it was intended to be given to the author of the best work on renal surgery, then, without a doubt, Henry Morris ought to have received it. Compared with Morris's work, this one is sketchy and superficial. But it is readable and trustworthy. In these bustling times, when the greatest amount of practical show is sought from the least possible effort of the mind, a work like that of Mr. Bruce Clarke is sure to be appreciated. About details we need not be hypercritical. If we hurriedly reach down our English Dictionary when we meet such a word as " mortary," and wonder whether an Oxford graduate can make up his mind as to the spelling of nephroraphy, or nephrorhaphy, or nephrorraphy, or nephrorrhaphy (he wisely gives