Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation upon Health. By
Amariah Brigham, M.D. (Hatchard.)—This is a reprint from an American work which was published at Hartford in the United States rather more than forty years ago, and which then achieved considerable success. The republication is welcome. Students should read it. That anything can do us much good while we have too much work to do and cannot help doing it is not to be hoped. Still, there are sound sense and the wisdom that comes of experience in this little volume, and we can heartily recommend it. It is interesting to find here the complaints which have lately been made with such energy about the feebleness of American women, as caused by their methods of education, together with the neglect of physical facts. "There is no other country," says Dr. Brigham, "where the females generally receive so early and so much intellectual cult-me, and where so little attention is paid to their physical education." He also denounces the opinion that delicacy is requisite to beauty, and warns his countrymen that "no people will long hold a high rank among the nations of the earth, where such an opinion extensively prevails, and where females are generally feeble." Nothing is more interesting in this book than the accounts of precocious genius.
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