6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 13

Health at Home Tracts. By Alfred Schofield, M.D. (Religious Tract

Society.)—In a series of chapters devoted to the innumerable pre- cautions necessary to ensure a long life, Dr. Schofield carries the reader along between the physical and spiritual welfare of the man, keeping the two as close together as the exigencies of style will permit. There is nothing new in Health at Home Tracts ; but the substance of the book can never be repeated too often, and in one sense, therefore, much in it, as in all treatises on health, will be news to a very large number of readers. One axiom is that " doors are meant to shut, and windows to open ;" Londoners and country people never can and never will realise this. It is the awakening of people to this truth which has discovered a new terror, the dread of draughts.