Adam & Charles Black

IntroductionIt used to be fashionable to say airily that nothing worth knowing could be learned from a book, but if it were ever true the time has gone. Tommy Armour's great book How to flay Your Best Goli All The Time must have gone far towards destroying the belief and John Hislop's...

preface to the twenty-fourth edition In preparing this new edition, many sections have been revised or rewritten and many new ones have been added. Among the sections that have been entirely rewritten are those on chronic alcoholism, detergents, influenza, leprosy, mental defectiveness, mental...

IM^MWaíCTM-1®» The Author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from, which he drew the tragic subject of this history,^ because, though occurri'ng at a distant period, it m,ight possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an...

CHAPTER ONE The General Picture - What is it all about ?When I first decided to take up teaching, I was profoundly ignorant of preparatory schools; and although I had attended just such a school myself as a boy, yet I remembered strangely little about it. Even now, when I have spent most of my...

PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION Although it is just over two years since the last edition was published, it has been found necessary to make considerable additions and revisions for this edition. Much new material has been added to the sections on endocrinology and ovarian tumours and there are...

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITIONSince the second edition of this book there have been some notable changes in the British shooting scene. In particular clay pigeon shooting has continued to grow in popularity, with increasing specialisation in relation to game shooting. I have therefore taken advantage...