12 MAY 1894, Page 24

There is much that is interesting, and of necessity a

good deal that is eminently Richardsonian, in Sir Benjamin Ward Richard- son's quarterly magazine, the Asclepiad. In a recent volume we are told such things as that quackery will be rampant till the weighing out of talent by guineas is abandoned, and that there is not the shadow of a proof based on sound statistics that abstinence from alcoholic treatment increases the mortality from enteric fevers. The same volume contains an interesting sketch of the life and work (anatomical and physiological) of Marcellus Mal- pighi of Bologna. Some mistake, however, is surely made about dates. Thus, he is said to have been born in 1628, and to have died in 1654, and yet to have attained sixty-seven years.