This section deals with surgery of the heart and pericardium, and surgery of the blood vessels. These chapters, like their predecessors, are well written, are well illustrated, and contain a good survey of the literature. The anatomy, normal and pathologic, is considered. In the chapter on surgery of the heart, much space is devoted to the operations incidental to acute and chronic pericarditis. Perhaps taking into consideration the fact that, from a practical standpoint, the operations on the heart valves are of secondary importance, the one page devoted to all the recent practical and experimental work that has been done may be regarded as ample. In the chapters on surgery of the blood vessels, the pathologic conditions that require surgical intervention are well covered. More space might have been devoted to the injection treatment of varicose veins, even though the writers evidently have but little use for this method of