Books to Read

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 1 January 1921, Page 30

Books to Read

G. Bruton Sweet

"THE MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS."

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We have received the above publication from the publishers, Messrs. Whitcombe & Tombs. A book on the 'subject of infants, from Dr. Bruton Sweet, who has foir years made a special study of feeding 1 and general management, is a welcome addition to the literature produced in New Zealand, where a campaign against infant mortality, which has attracted the notice of the world, was instituted about 14 years ago by Dr. Truby King. The book is composed of lectures given to the nurses at St. Mary's Home for Infants, Auckland. The author does not agree in all points with the teaching of Dr. Truby King, whose pamphlets are well known throughout the Dominion. He does not advocate the use of humanised milk, partly on account of the difficulty of preparation in a poor home, and partly because percentage feeding has not proved to be entirely a success. He rathe:* advises a simple dilution method, which is given in detail. Food values for older children are fully discussed and much useful advice given We note especially his remarks on raw apples for young children, with which we fully agree. Part II of the book deals with Diseases of Infancy, beginning with congenital afflictions, and gives much both interesting and instructive information. We would advise all nurses and midwives to obtain it. The price is only 3/6.

" LADY LILLITH " (By Stephen M'Kenna, author of "80nia" and "Sonia Married. 7 ') We have been reading this boiok, and find it absorbingly interesting. It is the first of * l The Sensationalists, ' ' a trilogy the remaining parts of which ace in course of preparation. The heroine is a study of the modern girl of a certain type and class, with all the freedom at which our grandmothers would have held up their heads in horror. Our old friends "Raney," "Sonia" and their circle form part of Lady Barbara's circle, and the story is of an earlier period than tjhat of "Sonia Married," and one hopes that its continuation and conclusdon will not be so disappointing as the story of "Sonia." ' ' THE ( J A Y-DOMBEYS. ' ' (By Sir Harry Johnston.) The charm and interest of this book is great to lovers of Dickens. The Gay Dombeys are the descendants of Florence Dombey and Walter Gay, whom they would remember so vividly in "Dombey and Son." Paul Dombey, the heK>, is the nephew of little Paul. Entering upon the pages of th'ds new book is to make one feel that the characters of Dickens' pages are real personages, and that these people are the livinig descendants of a real family. Though not in the style of Dickens, there is a certain careful delineation of character which perhaps in some ways presents them, especially the women, in a more normal manner than did the old master with his touch of whimsical eccentricity and sentimentality.