The history of this great Hospital is not only interesting on account of the particular incidents of its long and honourable career, and the prominent men who have been connected with it, but also provides a typical example of the way in which our splendid medical charities have grown and developed. Beginning with a survey of the condition of Medicine and Surgery in 1741, the date of the foundation of the Hospital, the author describes its early days in Goodman’s Field, the move to Whitechapel, and the gradual growth during the last hundred and fifty years. He then deals with the system of Administration, Finance, and Management, the relation of the Hospital to Medical and Surgical Science, the Medical School, and the Development of Sick Nursing. The reader is initiated into some noteworthy customs and ceremonies of the Hospital, and some account is given of the men whose names stand out in its history. The author has enjoyed exceptional advantages in writing his book, through his position as Secretary of the Hospital, and has collected some valuable materials for illustrating it from sources not generally accessible.
NEIGHBOURS AND FRIENDS.
By M. LOANE,
Author of ‘An Englishman’s Castle,’ ‘The Queen’s Poor,’ etc.
One Volume. Crown 8vo., cloth. 6s.
Miss Loane’s store of anecdotes and thumbnail sketches of the poor, their ways of living, and their modes of thought and expression, are apparently inexhaustible. Readers of her earlier works will find in ‘Neighbours and Friends’ a collection as entertaining and as full of interest as any of its predecessors. Miss Loane never dogmatizes, and rarely indulges in generalization, but there are few problems connected with the Administration of Public Relief on which her pages do not throw fresh light.
A SUMMER ON THE CANADIAN
PRAIRIE.
By GEORGINA BINNIE CLARK.
With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s.