174 THE MICROSCOPE. 



Traite D' Hygiene, Publique et privee. Par A. Bouchardat, Professor of 

 Hygiene in the Faculty of Medicine, Paris. Second edition, 8 vo. , pp. 

 1300. 1883. Illustrated. 



Man is considered individually and collectively. The atmos- 

 phere, aliments, excretions, sensations, etc., are all thoroughly dis- 

 cussed. 



Moral, general and international hygiene are taken up in turn. 

 An exhaustive treatise on this subject. 



The Physician Himself and what he should add to his Scientific 

 Acquirements. By D. W. Cathell, M. D. Second edition, 8 vo., pp. 

 203. Cushings and Bailey 262 West Baltimore St., Baltimore, Md. 



1882. $1.25. 



This edition differs from the first in being divided into chapters 

 and furnished with a full index. It consists of two hundred pages 

 of solid advice to professional men. Every young physician 

 especially should read the work until he has about committed it to 

 memory. How we wish some old doctors we know would read it 

 too! The precepts of Dr. Cathell's book, if carried out, will cause 

 many dollars to come to the "new doctor." 



Every physician, every one, should purchase a copy and read it. 



Sea Mosses. By A. B. Hervey, A. M. Illustrated with twenty full page 

 engravings in color, from photographs of actual specimens. Small 3 vo. 

 pp. 281. 1882. Boston: S. E. Cassino. 



If anyone should be contemplating a trip to the seaside this 

 book should form a part of the outfit. If obliged to stay at home, 

 then send for the book and get some idea what summer life by the 

 sea-side might be. 



The plates are simply beautiful. 



In outline and color they represent real plants, hence they must 

 be beautiful. 



A helpful guide to the botanist, a fine book for the library. 

 **Who does not love the sea! For every mood of the mind, with 

 some one of its thousand voices it speaks some answering tone." 



New Commercial Plants and Drugs, No. 6. By Thos. Christy, F. L. S. 

 1882. London: 155 Fenchurch St., E. C. 



As one takes in hand this thick pamphlet of upwards of one 

 hundred pages, he notices at once the varieties of paper employed 

 in it and is in doubt whether it is one of the fanciful variegated 

 books sometimes found in the book stores or the result of careless- 

 ness on the part of the printer. An examination of the pages, how- 



