A New System of Musical Gymnastics. By Moses C. Tyler.
(W. Tweedie.)—Mr. Tyler is the Principal of the London School of Physical Education, and he contends that the object of gymnastics should be to develop not mere muscular strength, but rather rapidity and flexibility of movement. All his apparatus is quite light and simple, and his system is therefore as applicable to girls as to boys. We have no doubt of the soundness of these principles. Muscular force is often obtained at the expense of vital force, and is only necessary to porters or coalheavers ; but the thorough development of the capacities of the body is essential to the health even of the mind. Whatever may be gained, however, by making music an element in gymnastics, we can scarcely believe it to be either an "essential" or "inseparable" one.
We have also received Parts IX. to XII. of the Gallery of Geography, by the Rev. Thomas Milner (W. and R. Chambers) ; Parts IV. to IX. of Homes without Hands, by the Rev. J. G. Wood (Longman and Co.); How to Play Cricket and Football (W. Stevens); The Fisherman's Magazine for September (Chapman and Hall); Part IV. of London Labour and the London Poor, by Henry Mayhew (Griffin sand Co.); Part VII. of Dr. Cumming's Life and Lessons of Our Lord (John F. Shaw and Co.); Part XIV. to XIX. of Mr. Watts' Dictionary of Che- mistry (Longman and Co.), which brings the work down to "Lencates ;" Part V. of Dr. Latham's Dictionary of the English Language (Longman and Co.), which takes us about half way through the letter C ; and Part TX. of the magazine called 'Christian Work, published at Good Words office ; also I Tre Despoti ad I Popoli (P. Rolandi); and Schleswig- Holstein, by Patrick Matthew, a pamphlet full of the most comical grammar and the most wonderful blunders of all sorts, so mu as to be almost worth reading as a curiosity.
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