NET, EDMONS.—The Home Nurse. By Esther Le Hardy. (Hard- ivicke.)—This
very thorough and valuable little treatise has reached a third edition. We can honestly bestow the praise, though the writer's views on "infection and disinfectants" seem to us very questionable. Oxygen being the great instrument of purification which Nature uses, she goes on to infer that such substances as carbolic acid, &c., are positively harmful ; " air-befoulers " she calls them. "Condy's fluid," however, she believes in. We must not neglect to quote the heroic remedy which is suggested for hysteria,—three buckets of cold water administered continuously. Very likely it would be commonly sufficient to warn the probable patient of what would be done.—We have also a second edition of Health and Longevity. By Lionel J. Beale. (Churchill.) Is not Dr. Beale very much at variance with his brethren about the quantity of food which is requisite for the support of a healthy adult ? He speaks with apparent approval of Louis Carnaro's regimen, " 12 oz. of bread and meat, and 14 oz. of light wine." His words are, "Half a pint of well-brewed ale is, I think, about equivalent to Cornaro's 14 oz. of Italian wine. In regard to meat, 4 oz. to 6 oz. of cooked meat, with 6 or 8 oz. of bread, is sufficient to maintain health and strength after the age of 50." Even with this limitation, the -statement strikes us as incredible.—Power in Weakness, Memorials of the Rev. W. Rhodes, by Charles Stanford (Hodder and Stoughton) ; —The State of the Dead, by the Rev. G. P. Badger. (Bell and Daldy). —Honduras. (Trubner.)—A. reprint from Mr. E. G. Squier's work on "The States of Central America."—The Great Duel. By W. R. Greg. (Triibner.)—This is a reprint of Mr. Greg's article in the "Con- temporary Review," and is published for the benefit of the "Victoria Institute for providing for the Widows and Orphans of German Soldiers." —Another reprint, which some of our readers will probably be glad to see in a collected form, is Letters on Military Organization, by Lord Elcho. (Murray.)—The English Bible: a Plea for Revision. By T. N. Abbott, M.A. (Dublin: Hodge, Foster, and Co.)—Mr. Abbott published this essay about fourteen years ago, before the question had become rife for settle- ment. He must have, therefore, the credit of having been one of the early advocates of the causes of revision. Apart from this his suggestions are worthy of republication and of the attention of those who are interested in the subject. —Bob* House, by C. J. Whyte Melville (Longmans) The Changed Cross and other Religious Poems (Sampson Low and Co.); An Atlas of Scripture Geography, by W. McLeod (Longmans); Hand- book for Young Painters, by C. R. Leslie, R.A. (Murray); The Argument, -a Priori for the Basis and Attributes of the Absolute One, by W. H. Gillespie (Houlston) ; The First Duty of Women, by Mary Taylor, (Emily Faithfull), a reprint of articles published in the " Victoria Magazine ;" The Popular Names of British Plants, by R. 0. Prior, M.D. (Williams and Norgate); Nature Study, as applicable to the Purposes of Poetry and Eloquence, by Henry Dirck, LL.D. (Nimmo.)
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