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The Preferable Climate for Phthisis. By Charles Denison, M. D. 

 (Reprint from the " Transactions of the Ninth International Medi- 

 cal Congress.") Pp. 15. 

 This is, practically, a plea for the climate of Colorado for cases of 

 phthisis in the first stages, and the plea is a good one. The author ac- 

 cepts with confidence the bacillus theory of Koch, and argues that the 

 bacillus of phthisis works worse ravage in a moist, warm, dense, cloudy 

 atmosphere with equable temperature than in one dry, cool, rare, and 

 sunny with variable temperature. Further, that a clear atmosphere is 

 better for the phthisical patient than the smoke of cities ; a rocky or 

 sandy soil better than wet clay ; mountains better than plains ; frequent 

 electrical changes better than continual stillness of the air ; inland better 

 than sea-shore. The argument is well sustained, and we believe that 

 statistics thoroughly back the author's statements. At the close are 

 some contraindications for change to a high altitude, dictated by com- 

 mon sense. 



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 Within a hundred pages (12 mo, nearly square) are given all words 

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 are included and explained, as they should be. The two dozen illus- 

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 should be more fully carried out. Getting up several hundred such 

 illustrations for the next vocabulary would be expensive, but would be 

 advisable. This is the only improvement worth suggesting in the 

 book, which pleases us very much indeed. 



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A Hand-book of Rhetorical Analysis. By JohnF. Genung, Profes- 

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 The present Hand-book enables the student of rhetoric to study the 

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Under the two heads of Studies in Style and Studies in Invention is 

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