The author is an obstetrician who has pronounced opinions on the teaching of obstetrics, much of which, in this country at least, he believes to be incomplete and defective. In this he does not except his own school. With definite ideas of what should constitute good obstetric teaching he has prepared this book; it bears the impress of thoroughness in every line, and is at the same time a practical exposition of obstetric practice. Since the last edition was reviewed, the book has been revised materially in many respects, and expresses what the author believes to be sound conclusions from later research on many moot points, such, for instance, as eclampsia. The text offers an exceptionally clear exposition, taken together with the many excellent illustrations, of the management of normal as well as of complicated labor, and of obstetric accidents. The many other procedures connected with the puerperal woman and