5 DECEMBER 1891, page 33

The Magazines.

WE welcome back M. Gabriel Monod to the Contemporary, from which he has been absent for a twelvemonth, not writing, as he says, simply because there has been nothing in French......

My Water-cure.*

NOT even Thales of Miletus, nor that more modern philoso- pher, Sir Wilfred Lawson, has preached the doctrine of water with more energy and sincere conviction than Pfarrer......