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 to his task. Here we see the titles of many books that have long taken their place as medical classics. At the present time, including Sir Malcolm Morris himself, who received his K.C.V.O. in 1908, the Medical List contains the names of no fewer than fifteen authors upon whom titular honours have been conferred, and in almost every instance their inclusion in this company of authors long preceded the official recognition of their claims to special distinction. One of the first to join the band was Mr. Frederick Treves. The most monumental of the medical works with which this great surgeon's name has been associated is the "System of Surgery," which he edited, and to which he was one of the chief contributors. Since Sir Frederick Treves, still in the prime of his powers, retired from active professional work, this "System" has been replaced by another, of which the general editor is Mr. C. C. Choyce, and the pathological editor. Prof. Martin Beattie. It is significant of the extraordinary development which surgery, both as a science and as an art, has undergone during the last twenty years that while two volumes were found sufficient for the earlier work, three volumes were required for the later one. Sir Frederick Treves's name still appears in the Medical Catalogue as the author of two books, of the earlier of which some sixty thousand copies have been sold. In the General Catalogue of the House will be found the titles of some of the highly successful works that have beguiled such leisure as is left to him by the public work to which, since his retirement, he has devoted himself in connexion with the reorganization of the nation's ambulance services, and in other directions. The literary skill which gave distinction to such works as "The Land of 'The Ring and the Book'" and "The Riviera of the Corniche Road" was no surprise to those who were familiar with his medical books, in which there is a happy mingling of conciseness, lucidity and grace.

Another great name that until recently shed lustre upon the Medical Catalogue was that of the late Sir