MISCELLANIES: Festschrift Alfred Bühler . CARL A. SCHMITZ and ROBERT WILDHABER

We are not exactly of the Chancellor's school, nor do we think it absolutely indispensable that a man should break his ribs, his head, or his skull, in order to be qualified to receive gratuitous medical assistance. No doubt, the knowledge that a pauper fund exists is injurious, in some measure, medically as politically. But the balance of good is vastly in its favour ; and medical charity, on an extensive scale, is probably attended with a smaller amount of ul-