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the Benares Hindu University, the Patna University, the University of Mysore, 

 and the Indian University for Women. The schemes for the Dacca, Rangoon, and 

 Nagpur Universities have also progressed, although these have not matured. 



These are chief points of the Review, though much has of necessity been passed 

 without comment. There are, for instance, chapters devoted expressly to pro- 

 fessional and to technical education. Throughout the work there are frequent 

 references to the social and economic conditions which bear upon the subject- 

 matter. These help to enliven the work, as do the seventy-eight excellent 

 reproductions of photographs— most of them of the buildings which have been 

 erected during the period under review — which are printed as an appendix to the 

 volume. While describing progress, no attempt seems to have been made to 

 minimise the serious defects which still exist. The absence of any suggestion that 

 those responsible will "over-much recline upon achievement" is, perhaps, the 

 happiest augury for the future of education in India. 



C. L. Bryant. 



The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An Illustrated and Detailed 



Account of the Early Organisation and Work of the Australian Medical 



Units in Egypt in 1914-15. By Lt.-Col. J. W. Barrett, C.M.G., 



M.D., F.R.C.S., and Lieut. P. E. Deane, A.A.M.C. [Pp. xiv + 260, with 37 



Illustrations.] (London : H. K. Lewis & Co., 1918. Price 12s. 6d.) 



In 1914 we should have thought that Macaulay's Maori gazing on the ruins ot 



London was not much less likely to exist than an Australian R.A.M.C. " orderly- 



for-the-day " gazing on the ruins of Egypt; but it is never safe to prophesy. 



The world upheaval has brought many of us into strange lands, and the very title 



of a book like The Australian Artny Medical Corps in Egypt cannot but send 



a thrill through the veins of even the veriest Little Englander. The great Imperial 



dreams of statesman like Joseph Chamberlain have taken shape and awakened to 



real life at last, and Germany's savage attempts to sever our Empire have but 



welded it more firmly together, in bonds that we trust may never come apart. 



Australia's effort in the war will live for ever in the tales of Gallipoli, Egypt, and 



Flanders ; and her medical service (when it had overcome the initial difficulties 



of new work in a new country) became as well organised a service as any that 



have taken part in the great war. 



The authors of this volume— Sir James Barrett and Lieut. Deane— are well 

 yoked in harness for the purposes of their book, for the one was the Registrar and 

 the other the Quartermaster of the first Australian General Hospital ; and their 

 work thus threw them together in the organisation and setting up of a 500-bed 

 hospital, which eventually became the "mother-hospital" of some 10,000 beds. 

 Sir James Barrett is a well-known oculist in Melbourne, and was for a time 

 A.D.M.S. of the Australians in Egypt, and afterwards a member of the Executive 

 Committee of the British Red Cross there. He has criticised in this book in no 

 mild terms some of the ways of the Australian Red Cross, and there is probably 

 much searching of hearts in Australia at this moment as a result. Whether he 

 was right will be a matter for the future to decide, but the system of dual control, 

 with the balance of weight in favour of the civil authorities, which prevailed at 

 one period of the existence of the Australian Red Cross, was probably not a good 

 one in a theatre of war. 



The book is illustrated by many photographs, mostly by Pte. Frank Tate, 

 and for a war-time publication is well got up by Messrs. H. K. Lewis & Co. 



T. R. St.-Johnston. 



