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REVIEWS. 
AN ATLAS OF CLINICAL Microscopy. By Alex. Poyer, M.D. Trans- 
lated by Alfred C. Girard, M. D. Ninety plates, one hundred and 
five illustrations, chromo-lithographs. Large 8 vo. pp. 200. D. 
Appleton & Co. $5.00. 
The work is divided into seven parts: Examination of the 
blood; the mammary secretion; the urine; the sputum ; intes- 
tinal contents; contents of stomach; ete. The author gives us 
selections from over four hundred drawings he has made during 
the past few years. The majority of these are very well exe- 
cuted, while some are not so accurately rendered. There are 
some subjects elaborated upon out of all proportion to their 
practical value, while others are but slightly mentioned. 
The subject of spermatorrhcea is putin altogether too prom- 
inent a way, at least so it seems to us. There are a few glaring 
errors in the text, as on page 2, when it is stated that “ the 
total quantity of blood is estimated at one-third of the weight 
of the body.” But any work is liable to these slight over- 
sights. 
The volume will be found of great service to the physician 
who has faith in his microscope, and is one of the few works 
offered to him that can be put to practical use every day. 
The work of the publishers is of the very best order. 
WE Two ALONE IN Europe. By Mary L. Ninde, Chicago. Jansen 
McClurg & Co. 1886. 8 vo., pp. 350. Illustrated. $1 50. 
Two “ very joyous, not the oldest nor the wisest” girls take 
a trip alone to Europe. They spend two years in visiting foreign 
places of interest. In Berlin, Naples, Moscow, Paris, and Pal- 
estine, they were evidently the same two very joyous travelers. 
It is our unanimons verdict that a more fascinating book of 
travel was never written. From first to last the reader is sur- 
prised at the fresh and vigorous descriptions of places of interest, 
and at the novel situations in which the authors frequently find 
themselves placed. Being ladies, too, they were admitted to 
sights and scenes, where men could not go; as, for instance, to 
a Turkish wedding. It was a grand wedding at the house of a 
Bey; and from the description it was evident that their presence 
was as novel to the wedding guests as the whole scene was to 
our travelers. It is a book of universal interest. 
