Intracranial Tumors of Infancy and Childhood.

This stimulating and much needed book is a treasure house of pathologic and clinical knowledge, and is therefore of essential value to the neurologist, pathologist and pediatrician alike. The senior author has devoted twenty years' intelligent observation to the subject, and this has been supplemented and reenforced by the alert assistance of his junior collaborators. As a background, it should be kept in mind that for ten years Bailey had charge of the Cushing pathologic material, and was able to follow in detail not only the clinical correlations of this finest of all collections but also the manner in which children differ from adults. To this previously acquired knowledge he has added, with the help of Buchanan and Bucy, 100 cases in which the ages of the patients antedated the sixteenth birthday and with the clinicopathologic aspects of which he has dealt in the last ten years. As might be