“The persons who suffer most from popular prejudice and ignorance on the subject of spectacles are men of the superior artisan class, who are engaged on work which requires good eyesight, and who, at the age of fifty or sixty, find their power of accomplishing such work is diminishing. It is a rule in many workshops that spectacles are altogether prohibited, the masters ignorantly supposing them to be evidences of bad sight; whereas the truth is that they are not evidences of bad sight at all, but only of the occurrence of a natural and inevitable change, the effects of which they entirely obviate, leaving the sight as good for all purposes as it ever was.” His general interest in education and its effects is abundantly manifested as in the description of the late Mr. C. Paget’s half-time experiment at Ruddington near Nottingham, where garden work was substituted for about half the ordinary school hours of a portion of the scholars. The children so treated were found after a short period altogether to outstrip in their schoolwork those who devoted, or were supposed to devote, twice as much time to it. Mr. Carter has translated two valuable works bearing on his specialty: viz., Zander on the Ophthalmoscope, and Scheffler on Ocular Defects. He has contributed to “Our Homes, and How to Make them Healthy,” to the Sydenham Society’s _Biennial Retrospect of Medicine_, and to many other publications. * * * * * Aural surgery has not long been raised to the rank of an honoured specialty. JOSEPH TOYNBEE was told on one occasion by an eminent member of the profession that he would make nothing of aural surgery. He replied, “I will work at it for ten years, and then if nothing can be made of it, I will tell you why.” On another occasion he said, “I’ll rescue aural surgery from the hands of the quacks” (_Medical Times_, July 14, 1866). Prematurely cut off though he was, he added largely to the scientific knowledge of the ear and its maladies, and vastly improved their treatment.