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any part, but in addition to the contentsof that compendium. Thus, in the" Pocket-Book," there is a good chapteion

" New Medicines," and an abstract oithe Pharmacopoeia, which-defective as

is that official index-would be regardedas a useful medical breviary, in its con-

temporary. The chief feature of the" Pocket-Book" consists in a series 01

ruled pages for recoiding cases, makingdaily memoranda, &c. ; but, heaven blessus, what a pocket practice must that bein which they can be turned to account.The " pre-disposing symptoms

" and" treatment " in any case worth record-

ing, would occupy ten times the spaceallotted to them. There is not room ina pocket-book to accomplish the objecthere designed. These pages, however,may serve, with advantage, the purposeof registering disorderly memoranda, to

be " posted at leisure. Accounts of

schools, medical corporations and socie-ties, directions for drawing up cases, re-marks on medical evidence, and on poi-sons, with the common non-professionalinformation of book-almanacks, leather

covers, a couple of pockets for bank notes,and a " tuck," complete the features ofthis candidate for professional patronage.To those who wish for a " medical" poe-ket-book, it will be a desirable companion.

The "British Medical Almanack" due-serves (when some errors in it have beencorrected, which the publisher informsus will not appear in the revised copies ofthe work) to receive a high character fromus. It is a production of much labour andprofessional learning, and is published ata price which we doubt not will induceevery member of the profession to pur-chase a copy. To secure the success of

the work, we need do little more thanenumerate its contents; but these are toonumerous to be individually detailed inthis place. The calendar-which is ex-

ceedingly complete-combines an excel-lent bibliography of medical authors withits other information, and is followed by agreat variety of medical facts, worthy ofnote, and useful for reference. Lists ofthe British and some other medical insti-

tutions, and of various official medical

officers, are subjoined ; and, in fact, as

much matter is added as could be made

portable in a publication of this descrip-tion. A plate of the new Westminster

Hospital forms a frontispiece, and a pre-face is given, which, by-the-by, does not

seem to us to be very apropos to the work.

An "Almanack" certainty is not a

" means of communication between en-

lightened and benevolent men." We ob-serve that a Supplement is to be publish-ed. We can almost venture to recommendit before i appears.

INTERCEPTED NOTES.

" THE Editor of the Gazette presentshis respectful compliments to Sir HENRYH*LF*RD, and begs to request that SirHENRY will do him the honour to furnishhim with copies of the bulletins composedby Sir HENRY during the lamentable ill-ness of his late Royal Highness the Dukeof GLOUCESTER, the editor being very de-sirous of having those valuable documentscollated and printed together in theirJournal.

" St. George’s Hospital, Monday,One o’clock."

" Sir HENRY H*LF*RD desires that theEditor of the Gazette will not, under anypretence, presume to publish a copy orcopies of his bulletins, either separatelyor collectively, those documents not hav-ing been intended to communicate any-thing like a medical view of the case ofthe Royal Sufferer, but merely being de-signed to produce a temporary quietudeand tranquillity in the public mind at thatmomentous crisis." May Fair, Two o’clock."

CHRIST’S HOSPITAL.

To the Editor of THE LANC-ET.-SIR,-You said in one of your late numbersthat it would be desirable to submit thesubject of the medical department ofChrist’s Hospital to the notice of Mr.Warburton. I presume, as the medical 1committee has closed its sittings for thereception of evidence, that the best modeof introducing new facts bearing on pro-fessional matters, will be by direct com-munication with that gentleman, as a

member of Parliament. This course, Iapprehend, must be adopted, for I findthat the venerable apothecary hopes, by