Health and Occupation., by B. W. Richardson, M.D. (S.P.C.K.), is
one of a series of "Manuals for Health." It is almost needless to say that it is full of good-sense and useful advice. We may not in all things subscribe to the author's beliefs, may still indulge a glass of wine and a pipe (for wine he as no indulgence, but a pipe, "when work is over," is, we trust we are not wrong in inferring, a. venial sin), but we recognise in him a shrewd counsellor. What a golden rule is this !—" Whenever the brain, during hours of sleep, is occupied with dreamy recollections of the work of the previous day the scholar has passed the bounds of physical possibility.'" The chapters on the ills incident to manual labour of various kinds are remarkably interesting. So also is the chapter on averages of life. We gather that shoemakers, grocers, and gamekeepers live long. So do farmers :—" The English farmer is not poor, and he is not ill-fed The weather, it is true, troubles his mind, but against its severities he is well sheltered. Hia capital not being sunk in the purchase, he has more to expend on stock, implements, labour, and fartilising- materials. His profits are greater." (1}
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