IIIureivwilng t h first cdfition of lis bho,k i ( )ct (t)r lfast, We VXIOl (lI to I(oq)p tII at it would have a wide circulation. WV.' ar. glal to see that we we-re jUStite'd ill SuLCh a1 lop)e, aS thie reprinting of the b1)k itt the re,co(l l)e(lpiod of less than seven imlonithis clearly demonstrates. A.ltIhough described modIestly as a "'repirint," it is to a large extent a new ((lition, for ...

This textbook, which owes its inspiration to Dr. Harvey Cushing, is placed before the medical world to record and amplify the teaching of the members of the surgical staff of the Harvard Medical School. The work of compilation has fallen to the lot of Dr. John Homans and ably has he fulfilled his task. In the preface he informs us that some of the teachers sent him what might be described as mo...

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves that we are underlings." The words of Shakespeare are not dimmed for us. In some respects we are nearer to the thought of his day than we like to admit, for the cults of astrology, numerology and their ilk still find ready adherents. The superstitions of the ball diamond seem to amuse us but it is disappointing to find counterpart...

The fourth edition of the Textbook of Pain reflects the evolution of Pain Medicine over the years. As in other editions of this landmark book, the editors have brought together an erudite commentary of 102 authors in addressing the science and philosophy of pain. The authorship is clearly international and multispecialty. This registration of thought gives an invaluable view of pain that knows ...

Supplementing the earlier published The Biology of Pneumococcus by White, this volume makes available data on every conceivable phase of pneumococcus lobar pneumonia. It is, of course, an outgrowth of the years of work carried out in the Massachusetts Pneumonia Study, the experience there gained being supplemented by an exhaustive critical examination of the literature (the bibliography present...

then 0 on'v temporary value, also certain hav FleS ^ave held the floor perhaps for years but e outlived their usefulness must be discarded modified on account of recent work disproving them. This publication is fortunate in its author in this respect and the present edition maintains the high standard of its predecessors. Although it is a heavy book it is well bound with a flexible back so that...

We discuss properties of recursive schemas related to McCarthy's " 91 function " and to Takeuchi's triple recursion. Several theorems are proposed as interesting candidates for machine verification, and some intriguing open questions are raised. John McCarthy and Ikuo Takeuchi introduced interesting recurrence equations as they were exploring the properties of recursive programs. McCarthy's fun...

A TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHOLOGY. By D. 0. Hebb. Philadelphia and London, W. B. Saunders Co., 1958. 276 pp. $4.50. The large and heterogeneous collection of books written over the past fifteen years for the first course in psychology can be fitted rather loosely into two categories-the encyclopedic and the systematic. At their worst, the "encyclopedic" text is merely sprawling and the "systematic" mere...