23 AUGUST 1879, Page 21

Many persons now enjoying, or trying to enjoy, their annual

sojurn at the sea may road with profit the Hygiene of the Sea, trans-

lated from the Italian of Dr. Victor Grassi, by Frederic W. Wright. (Bemroso and Sons.)--If the author is right in his estimate of the benefits of sea-bathing (" money spent in sea-bathing, medically end

hygienically done, is capitalised at cent. per cent."), Paterfamilias ought to be reconciled to the discomfort and expense even of sea-side lodgings in August.