30 MARCH 1872, Page 24

Wonders of the Human Body. From the French of A.

le Pilenr. (Blackie).—This seems a good little book of its kind, as indeed the French works on popular science commonly are. Dr. le Pileur writes with both liveliness and good taste, and shows the art, so characteristic of his nation, of putting things to the best advantage. Is it not a some- what strange statement that "in an adult in a normal condition the aeart beats about sixty times a minute." Surely no one is in a normal condition if this is the sign. We should have thought seventy nearer the mark.