This book is impossible to review in any detail. Yet it should interest the pediatric reader not only for the information in its pages but also for the light it throws upon what is happening to our specialty. Six subjects are covered in this new annual volume: "Porphyria in Childhood (Ihsan Dogramaci, of Ankara), "Ventricular Septal Defect" (Mary Ellen Engle, Kathryn H. Ehlers, Tomiko Ito), "Progress toward Transplantation of Tissues" (R. A. Good, Carlos Martinez, Alan E. Gabrielson), "Acute Bacterial Meningitis" (R. J. Haggerty, M. Ziai), "Thyroiditis in Childhood" (Gilles Leboeuf, A. M. Bongiovanni), and "Nutritional Disorders . . . in the Tropics" (C. C. de Silva).