This excellent volume is written in clear and forceful English. The subject matter is well balanced, 500 pages being devoted to the nonsurgical aspects of the specialty. References are carefully selected and properly limited to the minimal requirements of the average reader. The chapters on physiology, including the endocrines and menstrual phenomena, on diseases of the urinary tract, and on the newer tests and procedures, protein therapy, iodized oil, electrothermy, the sedimentation test, regional anesthesia and blood transfusion, are concise and accurate presentations of certain phases of gynecology which have not yet achieved a sufficiently widespread recognition. In the surgical chapters the author has wisely chosen, and well chosen, well standardized operations and described them fully. The illustrations add enormously to the value of the context. The author, in common with the authors of the other existing textbooks in gynecology, has failed to draw a clear word picture of the