Health Studies. By H. Sinclair Paterson, M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This
volume contains a course of lectures delivered in the lecture-hall of the Young Men's Christian Association. They are characterised by sober sense, though with some of the opinions advanced we cannot agree. In the matter of ".Good and Appetite," Dr. Paterson gives it, on the result of his own experience, that four ounces of animal food is sufficient. Much might be done in this direction. Most people oat too much meat. Only the dys- peptic, who mostly cannot use any green vegetables, should live on it as much as is commonly done. Dr. Paterson asks,—Why should we arrest waste, and prize articles of diet that have that effect ? Surely, it is much better, if it can be safely done, to diminish the quantity eaten,—better for economy, and boiler for mental exertion. One sometimes hears total abstainers boast of how much they can eat. The lecturer is far too sweeping, we think, about, our theatres, and in condemning not the principle of dramatic representations, on which he does not claim to pronounce, but "such dramatic repro- seatatious as are given to us." Some of them are bad enough, but some, surely, may help a man "to bear the burden of life." We have naturally dealt with points of difference, though for the main part we find ourselves in agreement with the writer.
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