This book is another textbook which covers the whole range of animal nutrition, and as such it cannot be said to be complete for any single reader who will have his own particular interest or speciality. The authors are well aware of this, and in their preface they say ". . . it is a matter of picking and choosing what to include or exclude . . . some area or subject must be slighted" to keep the book within reasonable limits of size and price. With this in mind it may be fairly described as a useful book for a wide range of readers, and the extensive coverage of applied animal nutrition is perhaps wider than is found in some other textbooks. However, as a book which is going to be consulted and re-read, the plastic ring binding, unfortunately small for the bulk of the pages, is a shortcoming which counteracts the advantage of lower price to some extent.T.D. Bell