The Man Who Lived for To-morrow

Abstract

ROBERT BRIDGES in a letter to Mrs. Henry Bradley, commented in these terms on his memoir of her late husband, the philologist, and one who had been for long his close friend: “It is a first essential in such literary portraits to write something which will engage the reader's attention.” When judged by this test, Dr. Wade Oliver's book is a notable success, for it gives the reader a firm and attractive outline of the life and character of Dr. William Hallock Park and of the setting in which his work was done. Dr. Park was for many years director of the research laboratory of the Board of Health in New York City, and he held a well-earned reputation as an exponent of the first rank in the field of applied immunology. Not only so, but he also gained the respect and affection of the leaders of medical research throughout the world, as is witnessed by the generous tributes that were paid to him on the occasion, in October 1936, of the opening of the new laboratories in New York which were rightly named after him.

The Man Who Lived for To-morrow

A Biography of William Hallock Park, M. D. By Wade W. Oliver. Pp. 507. (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1941.) 3.75 dollars.