A Manual of School Hygiene. By Edward W. Hope, M.D.,
and Edgar A. Browne, F.R.C.S.E. (Cambridge University Press. 38. 6d.)--The authors of this volume—one of the "Cambridge Series for Schools and Training Colleges "—treat of the various matters included in their subject with sufficient fulness and Plainness. Soil and site, the capacity, &c., of classrooms, ventila- tion, statistics of sickness, care of the physique of the pupil, exercise, the danger of over-pressure, are among the topics dis- cussed. The statistics of epidemic disease are curious. In the schools of Liverpool the cases of measles were much more numerous before the holidays than after. In eight years the average of cases one month before the holidays was five hundred and thirty-five, of cases one month after, one hundred and thirty-two.—Domestic Economy in Theory and .Practice. By Marion G. Bidder Ps Florence Baddeley . (Same publishers. 4s. 6d.) —This volume—another of the "Cambridge Series for Schools and Training Colleges "—is divided equally between the theo- retical (treated by Miss Bidder) and the practical (for which Miss Baddeley is responsible). Ventilation, the constituents of food, the principles of cooking, &c., are discussed in the first; the actual ;Leeds and rules of housekeeping, with budgets for various incomes, and other kindred matters, make up the subject matter of the second. We need not say that a very large zunonat details are included in both divisions. It must suffice to say that the impression left on the reader is of a judicious and well. arranged manual.
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