The Logic of Vegetarianism . By Henry S. Salt. (The
Ideal Publishing Union. ls.) —" A. civilised future," hopes Mr. Salt, " will not for ever content itself with the diet of a barbarous past." He is quite within his right in so hoping ; meanwhile, would it not be better to let this matter settle itself? No one was ever convinced by a book radically to change his diet. Circumstances decide him. He makes the experiment, often an involuntary experiment, and is guided by the result. What is the good of telling us that " Shelley and Thoreau, Wagner and Tolstoy, Francis Newman and Edward FitzGerald " were vegetarians ? Not one of the six would be a safe model for ordinary people. The names which Mr. Salt should give us should be a non-flesh-eating dominant race and a vegetarian athlete. What mode of life would he recommend to the Esquimaux ? We should like to know what Mr. Eugene Sandow would say to it. He publishes a revised edition of his Strength and How to Obtain it (Gale and Polden, 2s. Gd.)
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