This article focuses on the book "Penell of the Afghan Frontier," by Alice M. Pennell. Pennell, the author of this interesting record, also belongs to a family intimately connected with welfare in India. Many amusing incidents are narrated showing the conflict between Western medical practice and Eastern superstition, anecdotes that should prove valuable to the profession at large and the medical missionary in particular. Ethnological differences have been observed and recorded, and these, with the folklore, descriptions, and illustrations of a little-known region, present to the student, in an informal manner, results of a trained and varied experience.