Vol. I. of this work was devoted to _Fractures Involving Joints_; Vol. II. (which completes the work) treats of _Fractures of the Shaft_, and is conceived in the same spirit--that is, with a view to the production of a work on _conservative surgical therapeutics_. The author strives on every page to develop the idea that anatomical conservation must not be confounded with functional conservation. The two things are not so closely allied as is supposed. There is no conservative surgery save where the function is conserved. The essential point of the treatment of diaphysial fractures consists in the early operative disinfection, primary or secondary, by an extensive sub-periosteal removal of fragments, based on exact physiological knowledge, and in conformity with the general method of treating wounds by excision. When this operation has been carefully performed with the aid of the rugine, with the object of separating and retaining the periosteum of all that the surgeon considers should be removed, the fracture must be correctly reduced and the limb immobilised. FRACTURE OF THE LOWER JAW. By L. Imbert, National Correspondent of the Société de Chirurgie, and Pierre Réal, Dentist to the Hospitals of Paris. With a Preface by Medical Inspector-General Février. Edited by J. F. Colyer, F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.D.S. With 97 illustrations in the text and five full-page plates. Price 6/- net Previous to the present war no stomatologist or surgeon possessed any very extensive experience of this subject. Claude Martin, of Lyons, who perhaps gave more attention to it than anyone else, aimed particularly at the restoration of the occlusion of teeth, even at the risk of obtaining only fibrous union of the jaw. The authors of the present volume take the contrary view, maintaining the consolidation of the fracture is above all the result to be attained. The authors give a clear account of the various displacements met with in gunshot injuries of the jaw and of the methods of treatment adopted, the latter being very fully illustrated. _The cost of postage per volume is: Inland 5d.; Abroad 8d._ LONDON: UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESS, LTD., 18, WARWICK SQUARE, E.C.4 MILITARY MEDICAL MANUALS THE SPECTATOR: "For our physicians and surgeons on active service abroad or in military hospitals at home these are the very books for them to dip into, if not to read through." FRACTURES OF THE ORBIT AND INJURIES OF THE EYE IN WAR. By Felix Lagrange, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Bordeaux. Translated by Herbert Child, Captain R.A.M.C. Edited by J. Herbert Parsons, D.Sc., F.R.C.S., Temp. Captain R.A.M.C. With 77 illustrations in the text and six full-page plates. Price 6/- net