THE CHINESE : Their Present and Future; Medical, Political, and Social. By Robert Coltman, Jr., M. D, Surgeon in Charge of the Presbyterian Hospital and Dispensary at Teng Chow Fu; Consulting Physician of the American Southern Baptist Mission Society; Examiner in Surgery and Diseases of the Eye for the Shantung Medical Class; Consulting Physician to the English Baptist Missions, etc. Illustrated with Fifteen Photo-Engravings of persons, places, and objects characteristic of China. In one handsome royal octavo volume. 220 pages. Extra Cloth, price $1.75, net. Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1231 Filbert Street.

CONTROLLING SEX IN GENERATION. By Samuel H.

Terry. Cloth, 209 pages. Price $1.00. Clark &
Zugalla, Publishers, 33 to 43 Gold St., New
York.

This book is a thorough and exhaustive review of the subject, giving the author's long extended observation and his practical views and plans. It is a subject that is well worth studying, especially since this work gives a successful solution of the problem. Every physician has some families in his clientelle that are anxious for reliable guidance in this matter, and are willing to pay well for it. Appropriate to this subject comes the next :

TOO MANY WOMEN AND WHAT COMES OF IT. By One of 'Em. 55 Pages, 10 cents. Clark & Zugalla, 33 to 43 Gold St., New York.

A well written little book, giving practical views.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISPOSAL OF WASTE AND GARBAGE. American Public Health Association, Concord, N. H.

VAN RIPER'S RECORD BOOK FOR PHYSICIANS AND TRAINED NURSES L. O. Van Riper, publisher, 325 and 326 Rialto Building, Chicago.

CONSUMPTION: How to Prevent it and How to Live With it. By N. S. Davis, Jr., A. M., M. D. Cloth, 75 cents. F. A. Davis Co., Phila., Pa.

SURGICAL HANDICRAFT. A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery, and other matters connected with the work of house surgeons and surgical dressings. By Walter Pye, F. R. C. S., Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital and the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children; late Examiner in Surgery at the University of Glasgow. Upwards of 300 Illustrations on Wood. First American Edition from the Third London Edition. Revised and Edited by T. H. R. Crowle, F. R. C. S., Surgical Register to St. Mary's Hospital, and Surgical Tutor and Joint Lecturer on Practical Surgery in the Medical School. 8 vo. 600 pages. Cloth, $3.50, net; Leather, $4, net. E. B. Treat, Publisher, 5 Cooper Union, New York. This is the work of an acknowledged master. The entire subject of Surgery is covered. Minor Surgery is given very completely. The illustrations are very skillful.

SPECTACLES AND EYE GLASSES: Their Forms, Mount

ings and Proper Adjustment. By R. J. Phillips, M. D. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., Philadelphia.

THE ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS OF GYNECOLOGY. In Two Volumes. By A. H. Goelet, M. D.

CEREBRAL MENINGITIS. By Martin W. Barr, M. D. CANCER. By Daniel Lewis, M. D.

USES OF WATER IN MODERN MEDICINE. 2 Volumes. By Simon Baruch, M. D.

These volumes are all respective numbers of the Physician's Leisure Library, published at the very low price of 25 cents each, by Geo. S. Davis, Detroit, Mich. They are written by authors of the highest ability and of wide experience.

ANNUAL OF THE UNIVERSAL MEDICAL SCIENCE, 1892. Compiled by Chas. E. Sajous, M. D., and seventy associates. 5 Volumes, $15 00. F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, Phila.

We have come to rely very largely upon this magnificent work for a review of current literature upon any medical subject. It is of inestimable value to any progressive physician who wishes a yearly cyclopedia of medical progress.

MICROSCOPICAL DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS.

Price, 50 cents. The little Blue Book Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

STRICTURE OF THE RECTUM. By Chas. B. Kelsey, M. D., New York. 48 Pages, illustrated, bound in flexible boards.

FOR THE MOUNTAINS, AND BY THE SEASIDE.—A drowsy August afternoon, the light shimmering through the dense leaves of the broad spreading beech-trees; a figure lying upon the grass holding in his hand a Magazine--not too heavy-just heavy enough for easy holding the Cosmopolitan, for August; just the sort of reading matter for a midsummer afternoon--full of attractive illustrations; scenes and life in the far off Phillipine Islands, with an experience of an earthquake; photographs on the Atlantic Beach accompanying a charming sketch of Jersey's "Salt-Water Day," by Hamlin Garland; charming Spanish bits by the artist Chase; lovely vistas, and enticing groves, illustrating a Califor nia Farm Village, in which Col. Fitzsimmons describes the growth and development of a model community of

fruit farms. Of the fiction, Henry James, "Jersey Villas" makes delightful midsummer reading and there is an odd story of Southern Life, while Curiosities of Musical Literature will furnish a half-hour's entertain ment for every lover of music, English high society is aiways an interesting subject when discussed by one who is of it, and knows it thoroughly, Henry Arthur Herbert, of Mucross, formerly an Officer of the Guards and an M.P., gives in an entertaining way the cause of the revolution which has taken place in the society of London during the past thirty years. Even Murat Halstead's description of the Convention at Minneapolis is breezy and bright, and the beautiful photographs which illustrate an article on Bridges and Bridge Building would attract a very unscientific reader. The one heavy article of the number is that of the famous English writer on Evolution, St. George Mivart.

For Ourselves and Others.

THE safest method of practicing medicine, if you are going to administer positive medication at all, is by the use of the dosimetric granules. They contain the right amount of the active principles, and may be given with entire confidence and safety. It is surprising how rapidly the system is spreading. The Phila. Dosimetric Co., 2009 Arch St., are enterprising, reliable manufac turers. Their granules are elegant, permanent and soluble. See their adv., and write to them, mentioning this journal.

ESGORGEMENT OF THE UTERUS-GONORRHEA,— ] have tried Sanmetto in engorgement of the uterus and found it better than anything I ever used. Also in a case of long standing gonorrhea which gave permanen: relief.

M. Rub together, and make 20 suppositories by using a cold mould. Sig. Insert suppository every night at bed hour.

ABORTED THE USUAL CORDEE.-One of our contribu tors lately told us of a case in which five grains of antikamnia, taken at bedtime, aborted the usual cordee On a subsequent night, it returned slightly, but upon the patient's taking another five grain powder, promptly left him.-Editor Medical and Surgical Journal, Aug., 1891.

As a baby powder and for chafing, Dr. Julius Fehr's, of Hoboken, N. J., is very fine.

TO THE W. D. ALLISON CO., Indianapolis, Ind.:-1 regard the Operating Table you made for me as the most complete and convenient thing of the kind in existence, and have inspected and tried many Operat ing Chairs and Tables on both sides of the Atlantic.DONALD MAC LEAN, M. D., Consulting Surg. Harper Hosp., Detroit, Mich.

TWENTY years ago very little was known about the isolation of pepsin and the other animal ferments, of their action. To day, much is known, although much may remain to be discovered.

One fact stands out clearly, however-if the raw material for the preparation of these ferments is handled at the place of supply by skilled chemists, then pepsin, and other ferments of much greater strength are obtained, and all disagreeable taste and odor, arising from decomposition, are avoided. The great packing firm of Armour & Company, Chicago, were the first to