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malcontents with the food we eat in 

 England today; and to men, rather than 

 to women, among my long-suffering 

 compatriots." 



One might venture to suggest that this 

 volume be read shortly before meal time. 

 Not that the book is only readable under 

 such conditions. Far from it! But, like 

 an Amer Picon, a slightly famished state 

 will whet the reader's perceptions, and 

 along with the author his enthusiasms for 

 oeufs-au-plat and Sole a la Meuniere will 

 carry him to happy realms. American 

 women, whose customary source of food 

 lore is that of the monthly magazine or 

 daily paper, should find this book a 

 welcome diversion. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING HIS- 

 TORICALLY MINDED. 

 By Wm. Allen Pusey. 



American Medical Assoc. Press 

 4I x 6f ; i.z Chicago 



An amusing and at the same time 

 penetrating little tract on the present 

 status of medicine, philosophically con- 

 sidered. The author is a wise old clini- 

 cian, and in this address gives the brash 

 young laboratory boys, whose behavior 

 indicates that they suppose scientific 

 medicine began about a fortnight after 

 they got started, a good deal to think 

 about. It is an excellent piece of de- 

 bunkification, a word that the office cat 

 brought in the other day. 



