Ophthalmic Pathology: An Atlas and Textbook. Edited by Michael J. Hogan, M.D., and Lorenz E. Zimmerman, M.D. Price, $30. Pp. 797, with 703 numbered illustrations. W. B. Saunders Company, West Washington Square, Philadelphia 5, 1962. Ostensibly this book is a second edition of the well-known volume published in 1952 under a distinguished editorial staff headed by Dr. Jonas S. Friedenwald. The second edition, however, in content as well as in format and organization, is a new book, as indeed the editors state in their preface. Many of the original plates have been retained, but many new ones have been added, and the arrangement of figures have been improved so that apt comparisons can be made with least effort. The remarkable advances of the past decade could be no more dramatically illustrated than in a comparison of the first and second editions of this book. In the latter, contributions from electron microscopy, histochemistry, immunology, biochemistry, and many other investigative areas are assessed and discussed in their important aspects as they apply to eye diseases. In presenting advances from such widely various areas of rapid change, the judgment and experience of the editors are well reflected. Most readers will feel indebted to them for their selection and evaluation. Ophthalmic pathology may be said to extend the breadth of general pathology— and indeed, beyond, for the eye and its appendages are exempted from none of the general etiologic classifications of disease. Furthermore, because of the remark¬ able and unique structures which comprise the eye, and their functions, many disease processes occur nowhere else in the body. Perhaps because of its uniqueness in some respects, ophthalmic pathology has been neglected by all but a small handful of general pathologists. The literature pertaining to it, its practitioners, and most of its advancements have come largely from a comparatively small group of able and dedicated practicing ophthalmologists. In the editorial combination of this book the greatest strengths of general pathology and of clinical ophthalmology have now been joined. The result is one which should encourage such joint efforts in other corresponding clinical and pathological specialties. There is the hope, with the publication of this textbook, of stimulating wider interest in both ophthalmology and pathology. Undoubtedly this complete and lucid reference source, lavishly illus¬ trated, and withal attractive, will go far to magnetize the interest of students, resi¬ dents, and practitioners alike. No textbook relating to ophthalmic pathology can compare either in scope or thoroughness with this book. Raymond A. Allen, M.D.