Author Personality Research Articles

A Textbook of Ophthalmology.

Among the problems encountered in writing a short textbook are the proper selection of material and its presentation in a well balanced manner. It is self evident that nothing is more important than an adequate description of the methods of examination, as a knowledge of such methods combined with practical training forms the basis of all ophthalmologic experience. The selection of the rest of the material depends on what the writer has found to be of greatest importance to the beginner and to the general practitioner. These problems have been well solved by Dr. Gifford. The style of writing is clear and precise, and the descriptions are simple and adequate. The etiologic factors of the conditions described have been approached from a scientific standpoint, and the suggestions for treatment are practical and excellent. The author's personality appears on each page, so that the book is far

The Evolution of Man and His Mind. A History and Discussion of the Evolution and Relation of the Mind and Body of Man and Animals.

This is a comprehensive work, covering the history, ethnology, biology and sociology of humanity in a compass of a little over 600 pages. The author is evidently a man of wide reading and a naturally suggestive and ingenious thinker. Notwithstanding his generally scientific accuracy, we notice several places wherein one might think that his information has been erroneous. At least, in some instances, he appears to have accepted as facts statements that draw on the credulity of the reader and seem to us somewhat irrational. Among these statements we can include such a one as that of the osteopathic school in Missouri selecting its anatomic subjects "on the hoof" in one of the asylums and some few other like instances, indicating a lack of faith in modern popular and political administration, which we think is undeserved. There is also a strong element of the author's personality evident in many of