Studies in Physiology and Medicine. By the late* R. J.
Graves, F.R.S., sk. Edited by W. Stokes, M.D. (Churchill.)—This portly volume, which is edited by the Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin, consists of a number of papers contributed from time to time to various scientific publications by one of the leading physicians of his day. Dr. Graves appears to have been especially successful as a medical teacher, and with him rests the credit of having been the first to intro- duce an adequate system of clinical instruction into the Irish hospitals. Among the most important of his contributions to medical practice was the employment of stimulants in cases of fever, it having been the received doctrine before his time that fever-patients must. always be subjected to a lowering treatment. The papers contained in this volume axe chiefly interesting as showing the wide range of Dr. Graves's reading and the depth and originality of his views ; and though Dr.
Stokes reminds us that they are not to ba taken as setting forth the present condition of physiological knowledge, many of them may still be read with advantage on account of the actual information which they convey. It may interest the reader to know that Dr. Graves was firmly convinced that cholera is an eminently contagious disease.
Messrs. Stanford have published a very opportune and useful map of Messrs. Speke and Grant's last journey from Zanzibar to the lower part of the Nile. It marks the general situation of the four negro kingdoms of lizinza, Karagwe, Uganda, and Unger°, and the form of Lake Victoria Nyanza, so far as explored, and, in short, makes the various newspaper reports of Captain Spoke's lectures intelligible, and enables the reader to correct easily the many blunders of the reporters.
We have also received Bessys Money, by the author of "Mary Powell" (Hall and Co.), a short story of the time of Edward VI., designed apparently for children ; Thanksgiving, by Frances Power Cobbe (Triibner and Co.), a chapter extracted from an "Essay on Religious Duty ;" a second edition of Miss Barlee's pleasant story, Helen Lindsay (Faithfull) ; a convenient re-issue of Des Maizeaux's Life of Chillingworth, with notes by the late James Nichols (Tegg) ; new editions of Dr. Leared'a treatise on Impeifret Digestion (Churchill), and Dr. Townley's work on Parturition without Pain (Davies); cheap editions of Mrs. H. B. Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento (Smith and Elder), Autobiography of Lutfullah (Smith and Elder), and Charles Lever's Fortunes of Glencore (Chapman and Hall); Part 4 of the Dictionary of Chemistry (Longmans), which brings us as far as "Carbon ;" Part 1 of a re-issue of the Nocics Ambrosicour, in twelve shilling parts (Black- wood) ; and a German pamphlet on the correlation of forces, entitled Die einheitliche Ursache alter Ai iifie-Erscheinungen im Universum, von W. Rissnecker (Munchen).
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