3 MAY 1890, Page 24

Habit and Health. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—In this volume Mr.

Grey Beddoes has collected a number of opinions and counsels by eminent physicians with an especial reference to ailments besetting professional and business men at the present day. The whole he entitles " a golden book for middle age." Opposite to his title-page he puts the admirable maxim, quoted from Dr. Crichton Browne, that it " is not pure brain-work, but

brain excitement or brain distress that eventuates in brain degeneration or disease." The names of Abercromby, Paget, Andrew Combo, T. K. Chambers, and Charlton Bastian, are among the counsellors whose advice is thus brought within easy reach.