An attempt to condense the important knowledge in a broad field into a small volume is fraught with danger. It is particularly hazardous when the field at issue is one which straddles two established disciplines such as biochemistry and microbiology. A. H. Rose is aware of the problems inherent in his task, and it is probably due in no small part to this awareness that he brings it off so well....

DAIRY MICROBIOLOGY. By Edwin M. Foster, F. Eugene Nelson, Marvin L. Speck, Raymond N. Doetsch, and Joseph C. Olson, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1957. 492 pp. $5.65. There has long been a need in the dairy industry for a text or reference book to fill the gap between texts dealing with public health and theoretical aspects of dairy microbiology for college students and...