EXTENSION FUND CAMPAIGN BROUGHT TO A SUCCESSFUL ISSUE.

The Extension Fund Campaign for the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania closed on December 16th, as planned, with more than the desired amount ($200,000) realized in cash and pledges. The success of the campaign has encouraged the formation of a permanent organization for the further promotion of the endowment fund. An important result of the campaign is seen in the increased enthusiasm of the alumnæ for the continuance of the college as a separate institution. The college is the logical center of special medical advantages for women, and its friends hope that all medical women throughout the country may recognize the pressing necessity for at least one such center where women may direct their own professional desti nies, and will, therefore, help in whatever way they can to perpetuate and sustain this pioneer college for the medical education of women.

Book Reviews.

Outlines of Physiology.-By Edward Groves Jones, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Surgery, Emory University (Atlanta Medical College), and Allen H. Bruce, A.B., M.D., Associate in Medicine, Emory University (Atlanta Medical College). Fourth edition revised; 111 illustrations. Published by P. Blakiston's Sons & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1916. Price, $1.50 net.

If one is looking for a brief and authoritative manual, or outline of physiology, we commend this little book. The chapters and general arrangement are the same as in the third edition, but the details have been revised and every effort made to bring the subject matter to date and keep the book up to the highest standard in every way.

The Nose, Throat and Ear-Their Functions and Diseases. By Ben Clark Gile, M.D., Instructor in Otology in the University of Pennsylvania, and formerly assistant in the Throat and Nose Dispensary of the University Hospital; Consulting Laryngologist in the Taylor Hospital, etc. With 131 illustrations, 8 of which are printed in colors. P. Blakiston's Sons & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Price, $2.75. There is no subject with which the general practitioner has less knowledge than the subject of the present treatise, and the books are few whose teachings are more direct and to the point than are those of the present volume.

The author has gone to great pains to put the logical sequence of the anatomical facts, with their diseased conditions and the treatment before his readers. He has gone to considerable expense and the most careful and painstaking labor in order to procure a book which will adequately illustrate his salient points, and at the same time teach as well as illustrate. The volume before us does both, and in an admirable manner. The book covers 445 pages, including an index of 9 pages. The chapters are brief but to the point.

We congratulate the author in giving to the medical profession and to the specialists in the subject such a valuable volume.

American Public Health Protection.-By Henry Bixby Hemenway, A.M., M.D., author of The Legal Principles of Public Health Administration, etc. Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind., 1916. Price, $1.25 net.

Dr. Hemenway gives us not only a most admirably compact history of the public health movement, but also sets forth the modus operandi of this new pro

fession, whereby it is to become an effective means of advancing efficient living.

Every physician who is interested in public welfareand what woman physician of the day is not?-should not only read, but study and digest and assimilate this splendid treatise on the new science of Public Health Protection.

Sex Education-a Series of Lectures Concerning Knowledge of Sex in its Relation to Human Life.-By Maurice A. Bigelow, Professor of Biology and Director of the School of Practical Arts, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1916. Price, $1.25.

Professor Bigelow has had a very deep interest in the subject and been in close touch with its promoters since the early days of sex education. His book is the outgrowth of mature thought and practical experience, and is very valuable; its scope is broad, its treatment catholic, and its subject-matter vital.

Civilization and Womanhood. By Harriet B. Bradbury.
Richard G. Badger, Boston, Mass., 1916. $1.00 net.
Dedicated to American womanhood.
Miss Bradbury's book deals with the condition of
women in all the greatest civilizations.

With a brief résumé of women in prehistoric times, she traces their developments down to the present time. She notes the effect upon woman's character and the home of the religious ideals of Buddhism, Confucianism, Mohammedanism and the various forms of Christianity.

She deals with social evolution and states "Power to rule is not what American women want, but power to help rule-hence their desire for suffrage."

There is an optimistic forward outlook in the book which is pleasant to contemplate.

My Birth-the Autobiography of An Unborn Infant.— By Armenhouie T. Lamson. Illustrated. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1916. Price, $1.25.

This daring little volume has much to be said in its favor in that it is, as the publishers and author profess, based upon the "most up-to-date theory regarding the birth of a human being," and it has, therefore, a direct appeal to the layman who is interested in a simple presentation of this very important subject.

However, if it is the purpose of the author to present this highly technical subject in non-technical language, there appear to be insuperable obstacles, in that the processes of evolution and growth, which are carefully described, are necessarily burdened with highly techni cal names; and it appears to be untranslatable into common every-day language without producing in the mind of the untrained reader a hopeless confusion of scientific names and technical jargon.

To any one acquainted with the processes of evolution and growth from conception-even from the period preceding conception-to birth, this is a highly enter taining presentation, and of decided interest as illustrating what can be done, by sincere effort and honest purpose, to simplify a very complex story and add an element of romance to the presentation of scientific

theories and facts.

To the uninitiated reader the simplification of the story will hardly be appreciable when such statements as these, to give only two samples, meet the bewildered gaze: "Also the oral cavities were one with the primitive mouth. About the sixth week six little buds appear around the first bronchial cleft. They, too, by fusion and rotation, come to form one structure-the external ear. "Therefore, it has been justly said that we little no-ones, during the early months of our physi cal development and coming, recapitulate-repeat-the evolution of the race. According to this law of biogenesis the newly fertilized ovum may be compared to the lowest form of unicellular organism-like the amaba. After segmentation, when the working forces are created and organized and the primitive body cavity is formed, the ovum is said to resemble an organism like the adult volvox."

Truly, this autobiographic fœtus is more precocious in the uses of scientific-especially biologic-terms than the ordinary college graduate!

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The Poison War.-By A. A. Roberts, Member of the Chemical Society of France; Member of the Society of Chemical Industry. William Heinemann, 21 Bedford St., Strand, W. C., London. Price, 5 shillings net.

The book contains much valuable information. There is a description of the poisonous gases used by the Germans during the war, their chemical composition, their nature, and the machines by which they are projected; and there is a description of the means taken to neutralize their disastrous results. The various explosives used in modern warfare to combat the enemy are described. The author thinks that the allied troop soldiers have been subjected to systematic poisons, and he sets himself the task to prove his statements.

The book is very interesting reading. There are a series of appendices, dealing with extracts from the Hague Convention, relative to Laws and Customs of War on Land, Automatic Submarine Contact Mines, Asphyxiating Gases, and some letters of importance relating thereto.

Dostoievsky-His Life and Literary Activity.-A biographical sketch by Evgenii Soloviei. Translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth. Published by The Macmillan Co., New York, 1916.

The subject of this sketch is ranked with the great writers of Russia, with Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Goncharov. His father served as a surgeon on the staff of St. Mary's Hospital in Moscow, and there the little boy was born, subjected to the sternest repression while a child; his parents spared no money to give their children the best education. During his childhood he suffered from hallucinations, which told upon his later life. He was incarcerated for several years in a prison in Siberia, and when he left the prison he was very iH-he had developed epilepsy.

It was while in this penal servitude that he wrote both the "Uncle's Dream" and "The Village of Stepantchikovo, " and there he thought out one of his finest books, "The House of the Dead," or "Letters from a Dead House."

It is most interesting to trace his life and to see what influences were brought to bear in forming his character, and his literary genius which would not be downed despite the most severe reverses and griefs.

His books are well worth reading, presenting as they do the times in Russia in which he lived, and the hardships encountered in the quest of his profession.