How to Keep Healthy. By Alfred T. Schofield, M.D. (Religions
Tract Society.)—These "Familiar Chats on the Hygiene of Daily Life" have appeared in the Leisure Hour, and have been men- tioned, if we remember right, in our notice of the annual volume of that magazine. There are thirteen papers in the volume, all on interesting subjects. We turned at once to "A Few Notes on Influenza," and find that Dr. Schofield can only advise us to run away from it, or, if that is impossible, to face it with equanimity. It is, of course, true that our ignorance of what causes influenza is a "wholesome corrective to the somewhat too complacent belief in our scientific and medical omniscience." Still, we are weak enough to wish that a remedy had been discovered even at the risk of increasing this injurious complacency. Other papers are more satisfactory from the practical point of view ; all are in- teresting. When we come to Dr. Schofield's "Dissertation on Dress," we find at least one point of difference. The " stove-pipe " hat has one advantage : it is cooler than the wide-awake. A high- crowned felt hat would be better, but then, it makes the wearer look like a brigand.
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