Manual of Bacteriology for Practitioners and Students, with especial reference to Practical Methods

Abstract

THE bacteriological library has recently been enriched by yet another text-book which, although only published in German a few months ago, has already appeared in an English translation. In this work we have the responsibility divided between the author and translator, for the latter has not merely acted as interpreter, but has added numerous foot-notes, besides an appendix intended to bring the book as far as possible up to date, all of which additions are signed by the translator. It does not appear to us that there is much advantage in thus dividing the responsibility in a small text-book which does not contain any original or speculative matter of importance; and in our opinion the reader would have gained had the German original been freely edited by the translator, who should have borne the entire responsibility for the English edition.

Manual of Bacteriology for Practitioners and Students, with especial reference to Practical Methods.

By Dr. S. L. Schenk, Professor Extraordinary in the University of Vienna; translated from the German, with an Appendix by W. R. Dawson, B A., M.D. (Univ. Dublin). 8vo. 310 pp. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1893.)