6 JUNE 1868, Page 24

A School Manual of Health. By Edwin Lankester, M.D. (Groom-

bridge.)—We are not all prepared to allow that "the elder scholars in our national and other schools " ought to be taught "those facts which must be known in order to secure the health of the body." We do not undervalue those facts ; we wish that everybody knew them ; but we cannot think that the school is the proper place for learning them. Of all subjects, human physiology—highly important as it is as a branch of popular knowledge, —seems the least fitted to be an instrument of education. Dr. Lankester probably would object to this phrase, and we have not space to defend it, but it expresses our views. The manual seems well put together and well written.