This little manual aims to provide a working outline for clinical laboratory methods, which shall be complete enough for the average student and brief enough for the busy practitioner. In general, this purpose is well achieved, and in spite of Dr. Faught's determination not to "burden the reader with unnecessary detail," he has managed to include a great many helpful practical suggestions, although the clinical interpretation of results must, in a work of this size, be treated very lightly. The chapter on urine is the best in the book, and is especially good, presenting both the theoretical and the practical sides in a complete and available form. The chapter on bacteriology, also, is good, though brief, and gives not only rules for identifying various bacteria, but methods of preparing culture media, sterilization, etc. The chapter on blood is unsatisfactory. The examination of the stained specimen does not receive the attention