TY - JOUR T1 - The collected editorials by Martin CO Bax from <em>Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology</em>, 1961–2003 JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 878 LP - 879 DO - 10.1136/adc.2004.063453 VL - 90 IS - 8 AU - J B P Stephenson Y1 - 2005/08/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/90/8/878.2.abstract N2 - Edited by Martin C O Bax. London: MacKeith Press, 2004, £18.00, pp 264. ISBN 1898683417 And it’s only £18, including postage! But how does one review a book like this, a collection of twelve dozen editorials spanning four decades? I thought of the late Ronnie Mac Keith (“I am not your boss, I am your colleague!”) whose evocative personal memoir by Martin rounds off this book, and looked for a bottle of Madeira to accompany my morning coffee and sweet biscuit. All I could find was port, and at once I was there watching Ronnie standing on the college dining room table between the silver giving an after-dinner speech, while Martin, already an editor since 1961, sat beaming below. But before I continue, I should explain about the editor date. The year 1961 is when Martin first became co-editor (with Ronnie Mac Keith) of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. Martin had already been editor of Ambit (the literary and artistic … ER -