Recent Advances in Cardiology

From a careful study of many monographs and magazine articles of the last two decades, the authors have produced a book that is far superior to the ordinary compilation. The thoroughness with which the literature has been reviewed, the good judgment shown in rejecting the insignificant and the repetitious, together with the fairness and wisdom of the editorial comment, make the book a valuable and reliable epitome of recent cardiology. One occasionally wonders why certain facts that might be assumed as known and that really are not recent are taken up. But this is evidently done so as to increase the usefulness of the volume to the student or practitioner whose knowledge of these topics may be a bit hazy or whose memory is a little unretentive. Naturally, some subjects appear to be handled in a more satisfactory way than are others. Rheumatic carditis, for example, seems to be more