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Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University, has given us in this one small volume a collection of his essays and addresses. As in his previous books on the history of medicine he deals with his subjects in a most penetrating
and informative way, but here the objectives are to point out some of the important problems confronting universities and to offer suggestions as to methods that might be aimed towards solving some of them.
It emphasizes the role that the history of science could and does play to a certain extent in the broad field of education, where it could be of outstanding value if properly utilized in the curricula of all schools. We can only hope for the day when Dr. Sigerist's advice will be taken seriously.
Of the 12 essays it is not easy to indicate which ones are the more important for the serious consideration of our institutions of learning as they all concentrate on different aspects of the same plan for educational progress, but certainly the one on “War and Culture” belongs in the foreground and should be integrated into the minds of all concerned with the instruction of students in all branches of learning.