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Eyesight and School - Life. By Simeon Snell, F.R.C.S. (Wright, Bristol.)—The title

of this little volume recommends it. Mr. Snell is an expert in ophthalmic science, and his experience and conclusions are of the greatest interest. It is unfortunate that in the secondary schools, where the principles on which he insists are most important, we have no inspecting authority. Most im- portant, we say, on account of the longer duration of school-life. It is therefore all the more necessary to recommend such treatises as these to the attention of all who are concerned in the matter.