Domestic Economy and Household Science. By Robert James Mann, M.D.,
late Superintendent of Education at Natal. (Edward
fitanford.)—Amongst the many good aid useful books lately pub- lished on these subjects, the one before us seems particularly well deserving of the second edition to which it has already attained. It puts the most recent truths revealed by scientific research in a very popular and practical, but by no means superficial way, before those to whom its clearly-divided chapters are addressed ; and as these are teachers of the young, it is matter for special congratulation that such important information should be put within their reach in such a manner. We would specially commend to their notice the admire- able remarks on the word " Economy," p. 102, and Lesson xvi., on "Ammonia." The lessons also on "The Nature of Fermented Drinks," on their intoxicating = poisoning, power, are remarkable for their very temperate reasoning; and we must close our notice by quoting a few words of caution, which cannot be too often repeated :- " To give strong drink to children, who can know nothing about these reasons for its avoidance, is a most cruel act. Very few child- ren, who have been used to beer and wine in their tenderest years, will ever be able to lay them aside in maturer life It is almost a rule with children that they dislike beer and wine when they first take them; but after they have been induced to drink them a few times they begin to like them, and then after a while cannot do without them. It is certainly a maxim of the soundest domestic economy to see that no child of the house ever has beer, wine, or spirituous liquor of any kind placed within its reach."
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