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Early History of the Retreat, York : Its objects and 

 influence. By D. Hach Tuke, M.D., LL.D. 8vo, pp. 96. (London: 

 J. and A. Churchill. 1892.) 



A paper on Reform in the Treatment of the Insane, read at the 

 Centennial Meeting of the Retreat, held at the Institution, May i6th, 1892. 

 With a report of the celebration of the Centenary. 



How Nature Cures, comprising a new system of Hygiene; 

 also the Natural Food of Man. By Ernest Densmore, M.D. 8vo, pp. 413. 

 (London : Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) Price 7s. 6d. 



A statement of the principal arguments against the use of bread, cereals, 

 pulses, potatoes, and all other starch foods. The author says, in the future, 

 when the doctrines herein taught are understood and adopted, mankind will 

 become "fruitarians." A fruit diet means the solution of the problems of how 

 to banish disease and intemperance from the race, and to give us a food which 

 is, at once, in accord with our higher instincts and the demands of aesthetics. 



A Manual of Current Shorthand, Orthographic and 

 Phonetic. By Henry Sweet, M.A., Ph.D.. LL.D. Crown 8vo, pp. xx. — 137. 

 (Oxford : The Clarendon Press. 1892.) Price 4s. 6d. 



In this system the author claims to give us a system of writing shorter and 

 more compact than ordinary longhand, and, at the same time, not less distinct 

 and legible. By this system the two styles, orthographic and phonetic, can be 

 written concurrently, so that orthographically written words, e.g., proper names, 

 etc., can be inserted in a phonetically written passage without confusion. We 

 could have wished that the alphabet, and some of the earlier examples, had 

 been written in much larger characters. 



A Synopsis of Trigonqaietry. By William Briggs, B.A., 

 LL.B., F.C.S., etc. Crown 8vo, pp. 43. (London : W. B. Clive & Co.) 



One of the Univ. Corr. Coll. Tutorial Series. A very concise and useful 

 little book. 



Standard Arithmetic. By William J. Milne, Ph.D., LL.D. 

 Crown 8vo, pp. 428. (New York : American Book Co.) 



In many cases in the book before us we think the rules, and explanatory 

 reasons for working the different problems, are more plainly expressed than in 

 some of our own arithmetics. 



Cassell's New Technical Educator, Parts 4 and 5, 



monthly. Price 6d. 



This is an excellent periodical for home study. The contents of each 

 number are very varied, and treat of Steel and Iron, Plumbing, Cotton Spinning, 

 Projection, Cutting Tools, Drawing for Carpenters and Joiners, Photography, 

 The Steam- Engine, Watch and Clock Making, Electrical Engineering, etc. 



Records of the Past. Vol. VL Edited by A. H. Sayce, 

 Hon. LL.D. Dublin, Hon. D.D. Edinburgh. Crown 8vo, pp. xxii. — 160. 

 (London : S. Bagster and Sons.) 



This volume completes the New Series of Records, which are English 

 translations of the Ancient Monuments of Egypt and Western Asia, and con- 

 tains, amongst other interesting papers. Historical Inscriptions of Rameses III ; 

 List of Places in Northern Syria and Palestine conquered by Ramses II. and 

 Ramses III. ; Letters from Phoenicia to the King of Egypt in the 15th Century, 

 B.C. ; The Non-Semitic Version of the Creation Story, etc., etc. 



