Modern Trends in Paediatrics

plastic repair, but excludes the sphere of the neurosurgeon. Although a massive bibliography follows each chapter, and although a considerable uumber of introductory pages are devoted to embryology, the book is essentially the expression of the authors' personal views on the surgery and radiotherapy of the head and neck. The opinions which are advanced are doubly valuable in that they are the fruit of many years of direct experience and are expressed with the greatest clarity. The book is rendered the more readable by the avoidance of all but the most significant statistics and by the inclusion of a profusion of illustrations. R.S.M.