The Treatment and Education of Mentally Feeble Children. By Fletcher Beach, M.B., F.R.C.P. London: J. and A. Churchill. 1895. Pp. 32. Price 1s. 6d.

In this booklet Dr Fletcher Beach summarises his experience of twenty years in the treatment of mentally-feeble children. After a rapid description of the principal characteristics of idiocy and imbecility, he explains what measures of hygiene and therapeutics have been found most useful to meet the peculiar deficiencies and diseases of this unfortunate class. In reference to craniectomy, Dr Beach observes that in 82 cases in which it has been performed the results obtained were slight, doubtful, or nil. As Dr Beach remarks?" Independently of the fact that microcephaly is not due to premature synostosis of the cranial sutures, I do not see how