The Preservation of Health. By Thomas Inman, M.D. (Lewis.)— This
volume is a reprint of essays which have been already published in one of the medical journals. They are intended primarily for non- medical readers, though we can easily believe that professional men might learn not a little from them. Dr. Inman in fact has written a sensible, practical, useful book. We find but one fault with it, and that can be easily amended. We think that he is perfectly right in dealing with certain subjects which, as he says in his preface, are very rarely handled. But we must say at the same time that his manner of deal- ing with them is quite wrong. He ought to have said what he had to say in the plainest, most straightforward language. When he is meta- phorical, and still more, when he is jocose, he becomes offensive. We are sure that his motive is most praiseworthy. He wants to get over a disagreeable subject as lightly as he can. But he has not chosen the best way.
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