NEW EDITIONS.—A Short History of China. By Demetrius Charles Boulger.
(Gibbings and Co.)—This is a new edition of a book published for the first time seven years ago. A supplementary chapter has been added (not by Mr. Boulger, we are told, but by "a competent authority ") giving the narrative of the present Emperor, Kwangsu. In this we have an account of the causes which led to the breaking out of the war between China and Japan, chief among them being "that haughty disre- gard for treaty obligations which distinguishes the Pekin officials." Then comes an account of the war, and then of the present com- plications.—Frederick Lord Leighton: his Life and Work. By Ernest Rhys. (G. Bell and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.)—A Summer in Arcady. By James Lane Allen. (Macmillan and Co. 3s.)—Health and Condition in the Active and the Sedentary. By Dr. Yorke Davies. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a new edition, and there is no need to criticise it. We observe, however, one interesting statement that may be noticed. All readers of works on health must be familiar with the table of the normal relation between the height and the weight. It will frequently happen that an indi- vidual finds in his own case a great discrepancy from this norma. Dr. Davies gives another table of the " weights compatible with health." This is a very different thing. At 5 ft. the normal is 8 st. 111b. (male) and 8 st. 11b. (temple) ; the lowest health weight is 6 st. 81b. At the end of the scale we have 13 st. 121b. and 13 at. 4, lb. against 10 st. 8 lb.—From a Bachelor Uncle's Diary, by Fox Russell (J. W. Arrowsmith, is.), is a reprint from Punch of those amusing papers of what may be called the " Winkle" species of humour.
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