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plicity of the dove, and has the attractive title of ' A Plea 

 for a Simpler Life,' by George S. Keith, a well-known 

 Edinburgh doctor. This little book is short, clear, and 

 wise. 



' Food and Feeding,' by Sir Henry Thompson. This 

 is a much-to-be-commended and really instructive book. 

 It goes into first principles, both of health and of the 

 chemical properties of food, and would be far more useful 

 to take to wild places or distant lands than any ordinary 

 cookery book. The commonplace of living is taken up 

 and handled for our benefit by a man of great talent and 

 learning. Everybody who has not got it, ought to buy it 

 and study it, too. 



The next is what, I suppose, would be called a quack- 

 book, and its name is ' Power through Repose,' by Annie 

 Payson Call. It is an admirable, healthy, and useful 

 little book, particularly suited to the straining, and striving, 

 and overworking of the age. It will be found most helpful 

 to the sleepless and the nervous, if they will study it and 

 give attention to its direction^. 



Last, but by no means least in its great utility, comes 

 ' A Handbook of Nursing for the Home and the Hos- 

 pital,' by Catherine Jane Wood. Miss Wood was for 

 years lady- superintendent of the Great Ormond Street 

 Hospital for Children, so she speaks with great authority. 

 Though it has reached the eleventh edition, it is astonish- 

 ing how many people have never heard of this first-rate 

 little handbook. It is condensed and yet detailed, it 

 is medical and yet simple and intelligible to a degree 

 which brings it within the comprehension of anyone. In 

 fact, I believe it to be the best book on nursing ever 

 written. 



This little poem of Mr. Lionel Tennyson's has, I 

 believe, never been published; a friend gave it to me 



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