the landlord and the tenant, between the home government and the people, and the difference would have been settled years ago." This sage has never heard of the Land Question in the Highlands. He does not know that the people of half of Scotland are living under a tyranny, as regards the land, even more frightful than in Ireland, and that only the smallness of their number and their deficiency in spirit prevent a similar agitation. If he doubts our facts, let him ask Prof. Blackie of Edinburgh, or John Murdock of the Inverness Highlander.

A DOCTOR'S SUGGESTIONS TO THE COMMUNITY, being a series of Papers upon various Subjects, from a Physician's Standpoint. By Daniel B. St. John Roosa, M. D. Pp. 234, 12 mo. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates. MEDICAL HERESIES HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED. A Series of Critical Essays on the Origin and Evolution of Sectarian Medicine, embracing a special Sketch and Review of Homoeopathy, past and present. By Gonzalvo C. Smythe, M. D. Pp. 228, 12 mo. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston.

COMMON MIND TROUBLES. By J. Mortimer Granville. Pp. 102.
THE CARE AND CULTURE OF CHILDREN. A practical Treatise for
the use of Parents. By Thomas S. Sozinskey, M. D. Pp. 484, 8vo.
Philadelphia: H. C. Watts & Co.

EYESIGHT, GOOD AND BAD. A Treatise on the Exercise and Preservation of Vision. By Robert Brudenell Carter, F. R. C. S., Ophthalmic Surgeon to St. George's Hospital, with numerous illustrations. Pp. 267, 12 mo. Philadelphia: Presley Blakiston.

The medical profession neglect the best part of their vocation, in so far as they do not labor to instruct the community in the laws of life, as well as to heal its diseases. We hope the day will come when every church in Christendom will be open one night in each week for the doctors to expound to the public the physical conditions of human life. Dr. Roosa seems to have a proper view of his functions in this regard. His papers are not all addressed to the public, as their titles seem to suggest, but they have all something in them from which the public may derive instruction. If we are not misinformed, the eye is Dr. Roosa's speciality. Certainly the paper on Human eyes" is not the least valuable in the series. It is very largely devoted to a defence of the use of spectacles, and to an explanation of their value. The paper on "The Old Hospital" is the most interesting to general readers, and will gain a place among works on local history, as it contains a graphic account of the City Hospital of that city. Dr. Roosa takes high ground in his paper on “ The Relations of the Medical Profession to the State." He would like to have the sale of patent medicines sup

pressed by law. A fairer demand would be for the suppression of those of them whose indiscriminate use is injurious to health. But so long as the people prefer to be doctored in this way, the State has no right to prohibit the sale of any.

Dr. Granville's little book on Mind-Troubles strikes us as exceedingly well written and sensible. He discusses defects of memory, confusion of thought, sleeplessness, low spirits, bad temper and some other subjects. His object is to promote self-culture in these matters, and to offer suggestions which may be useful. He strongly emphasizes our responsibility for allowing our minds to take a false direction, and combats the materialistic doctrine that we are "the creatures of circumstance."

Dr. Smythe's book we took up with the expectation of finding in it a satisfactory discussion of the theory of homeopathy, from the orthodox standpoint. We wonder that this subject has been so much neglected by literary men in the medical profession. We are of those who have had to meet and counteract the Hahnemannian propaganda, with but little help from such "regular" medical books as came in our way. We therefore turned to Mr. Smythe's book with some interest, but we found in its opening chapter such evidence of its author's incapacity for fair discussion as shook all the rest in our confidence. If he has treated Hahnemann as he has treated the theologians, his criticism is of no importance.

Dr. Sozinskey's book on the care of children is the best American treatise of the sort that we have met with. Dr. Chauvenet's admirable manuals have been found useful in thousands of American homes, and Dr. Sozinskey quotes them. But they suffer from two demerits. The first is, that on one or two points Dr. Chauvenet is cranky. The second is more serious. It is that they are written for the latitude and atmosphere of England, and are therefore not suitable for our own "intemperate zone." Dr. Sozinskey's division of his subject, while practical enough, seems to us hardly logical. He discusses the care of children under the two heads Health and Sickness. He then proceeds to treat of their culture under the rubric, Physical and Mental. We think it hard to separate the care of a child in health from his physical culture.

Since we received Dr. Sozinskey's book we have had several occasions to make a practical test of its merits. We have found it highly satisfactory in every instance. Dr. Sozinskey is a clear, careful writer, and, as we judge, of sound discretion. We endorse his work as strongly as a layman may.

Dr. Carter's book on Eyesight is an English treatise on a subject in which our climatic differences are of infinitesimal importance. The author is an oculist in large practice, and finds too much of his time taken up with explanation of the principles upon

which the treatment of the eye in health and disease is based. This suggested to him the preparation of a treatise, in which the matter is explained from beginning to end. He begins by describing the formation of the eye, and giving the outline of the theory of vision. He then takes up the diseases from which the eye principally suffers, and from these proceeds to practical suggestions as to the care of the eye. He writes clearly, although at times with more thoroughness than many readers will like, and his suggestions seem very sensible. He recommends, as an eye-saver, Remington's type-writer, which he himself has used for years. On one point we venture to differ from him. He recommends porcelain shades, green externally and white internally, as best for those who write by candle-light, and naturally lift their eyes and look toward the light at any pause in their thought. Some years ago we used such a shade, having procured it at the best establishment in this city. After we got it, we observed a soreness and smarting in our eyes after writing at night, but failed to associate it with the shade, until, by a lucky accident, we broke it, and at once the smarting ceased.

WOMANHOOD. Lectures on Woman's Work in the World. By R. Heber Newton. Pp. 315. 12mo. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

This is a volume of sermons preached by the rector of Anthon Memorial Church, in New York, on Sunday evenings, to young women. To those who have read anything of Mr. Newton's writing, or have heard him preach, we need not say that they are much above the average. This is an age when as much good writing and valuable thought is given to the world in this shape as in any other; and Mr. Newton's work always ranks with the best.

The object of these sermons is not to urge on the public attention any special hobby of their author, nor to advocate any special reform. Mr. Newton understands the preacher's true vocation, to take the common and everyday things of life, and make us feel their vast importance. And so he takes womanhood as he finds it, shows us the glory which graces her social functions, and the open doors of opportunity which God has set before her and no man can shut. He turns to the past history of her sex, to illustrate the present and the future. The whole book seems to us an expansion of a splendid passage in Charles Kingsley's Yeast-a passage which it is impossible to forget after having read it once with due attention.

Mr. Newton analyzes his subject as follows: (1) Woman's Vocation; (2) The Lady, Housekeeper and House-maker; (3) The Queen, or, the Rulership of the Heart; (4) The Mother; (5) The Modiste, the Fashioner of Manners and Morals; (6) The Angel of Mercy; (7) Education. It is the sixth of the sermons that especially

attracts our attention, as an exposition of what woman may do beyond the circle of home, without entering that political sphere which some of her sex claim as her rightful domain. In this direction there has been a great onward movement in our times, represented by Florence Nightingale in its inception, and by Octavia Hill in its consummation. To both these great women, and to their associates in merciful works, Mr. Newton renders an ample meed of praise, and holds up their example before their sisters as the highest points reached in human service. Certainly nothing can be grander as an educational agency than the enlistment of women in the service of the suffering poor. It is a mutual education. No one can exercise such influence as a woman in the bestowal of praise and blame. And no other work so broadens and refines a true woman's nature, and lifts her out of and above the limitation of our border existence, as that of benevolence.

LEARNING TO DRAW, or the Story of a Young Designer. By Violetle-Duc. Translated from the French by Virginia Champlin. Illustrated by the Author. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Violet-le-Duc was a man of immense learning in his own special branch of study, who was yet able to use his learning in a light and graceful way for popular instruction. That the author of the Dictionaire de l' Architecture should also be the author of The History of a Fortress, of The History of a House, and of the book before us, shows him to have been a man of as great versatility within a single field, as other men are in ranging from field to field.

The skeleton of story which runs through this excellent treatise is that of an eccentric and learned gentleman, who takes a fancy to a little boy, and sets himself to educate him. He is struck with the boy's drawing of a cat. He has represented it as he actually saw it-rudely and with vitality, and an evident feeling for life and form. His young friend, who has been taught not to look at things, but at drawing masters' pictures of them, disputes its accuracy, but the incipient artist defends his work, and the dispute attracts the attention of their elders. So M. Magorin adopts Jean, with the consent of his parents, and sets about, not making an artist of him, but giving him the sort of training that makes a man in his own eyes and fits him for any occupation in which the use of the observant powers is fundamental. From looking at a table he brings him to the essentials of geometry, thence to botany, mensuration, comparative anatomy, and so on. At every step he encourages him to use his eyes and fingers in making pictures of what he In fact, he makes drawing.the central stem of an education, in which the training of the powers of observation and of judgment are the chief objects. We do not regard that as the sum of

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genuine education as M. Le-Duc seems to regard it. We think he would leave untouched still more important powers, whose training is essential to all good citizenship to mention the first and simplest of their uses. M. Le-Duc writes under the influence of the prejudices of his own age, in assuming that this is all. It certainly is a very important part, and our author has shown excellently well how it may be effected.

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Report of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Education for the year 1878. Washington: Government Printing Office.

Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages. By J. W. Powell. Second Edition-with charts. Cloth. 4to. Pp. 228. Washington: Government Printing Office. Schiller and His Times. By Johannes Scherr. Translated from the German by Elizabeth McClellan. Cloth. 12mo. Pp. 454. Price $2.00. Philadelphia: Ig. Kohler. All Round the Year, Verses from Sky Farm. Elaine and Dora Read Goodale. Cloth. 16mo. Pp. 204. Price $1.25. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. [Claxton & Co.

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