BOOK NOTES.
The Funk & Wagnalls Co. (18 and 20 Astor Place, New York) announce that Vol. I of their new “Standard Dictionary” was issued in December, but the first edition was not large enough to fill all orders booked before publication. A new edition is in press, and will be ready shortly. The second volume of the work will be ready in a month or two, and simultaneously the single volume edition of the entire work will be ready. Write for a prospectus: this Standard Dictionary is a wonderful book, and if you make yourself familiar with its features—as comprehensively shown in the prospectus—you are bound to secure a copy for your library. Write to the publishers at once.
E. B. Treat (5 Cooper Union, New York) has just issued two new volumes: Landis “How to Use the Forceps”, revised and enlarged by Chas. H. Bushong, M. D. (price, $1.75); and Beard’s standard work on “Nervous Exhaustion” (price, $2.75). Both books are issued in the familiar style of the publisher, and form necessary additions to available reference books on important specialties.
E. B. Treat also announces the early publication of his “International Medical Annual” for 1894 (the 14th year of publication). From the prospectus we note that the staff of editors and collaborators remains at the same high standard as heretofore, and hence the usual excellent annual review of medical progress in all branches is ensured. Write for prospectus; the book is sold at $2.75, and is cheap and indispensable.
Lea Bros. & Co. (Philada) announce the publication of the new National Dispensatory on January 25th. The J. B. Lippincott Co. had advertised the appearance of their new U. S. Dispensatory for January 15th, but some delay has apparently been caused, and the book will not appear until the middle of February. There will be greater rivalry than ever before between these two books; but each has its special features, and both are valuable—so that the careful student will do well to procure both volumes. The information in one will often amplify the other, and neither volume alone contains all the knowledge we possess—and ought to have at command—regarding drugs and materia medica.