Books: Kitchen Surgeon

THE HORSE AND BUGGY DOCTOR— Arthur E. Hertzler—Harper ($2.75).

While publishers jump at almost any book about doctors, seldom have they published them as rapidly as they have the last three doctors' autobiographies: William N. MacArtney's Fifty Years a Country Doctor, Chevalier Jackson's autobiography, Arthur Emanuel Hertzler's The Horse and Buggy Doctor—the possible beginning of a trend that may yet make the late boom in foreign correspondents' memoirs look sick.

Founder of the 150-bed Halstead, Kans. (pop. 1,367) hospital which he gave away in 1933 to the Sisters of St. Joseph, "Pop" Hertzler, now...