Public and Private Opinion. 



health and happiness, and the causes of disease and misery. Specially and very 

 thoroughly it treats of the relations of men and women to each other, of the nature 

 and uses of marriage, and the laws of a wise and healthy reproduction. It shows 

 bow the two sexes must be related to each other to insure painless maternity and 

 healthy offspring. It teaches, in short, the elements of human progress and well- 

 being." 



The following were among the testimonials to the value of " Esoteric Anthropo- 

 logy " on its first publication in America : 



Dr. W. M. Stevens, of Forest City Water Cure. " I look upon it, after a careful 

 perusal, as the most wonderful book ever written. It makes a new era in literature 

 and social life." 



Dr. E. Dodge, Oswego, New York. "This book contains more that is weighty in 

 fact and sound in philosophy more that is useful in medical science and effective 

 in medical art more that is purificative and elevative of man, than any one work, 

 in volumes few or many, that has ever graced the Librarie Medicale of civilisa- 

 tion." 



Alonzo Lewis, Esq., the Poet and Historian." My judgment is, that this is not 

 only the best book on the subject on which it treats, but the only true and satis- 

 factory one ever written." 



The testimony of English readers, since the publication of the carefully revised 

 and partly re-written English edition, has not been less emphatic : 



A Patient at Matlock. " If I could have seen and read such a work thirty years 

 ago, it would have been priceless to me. " [This is the testimony of many others.] 



A Gentleman from Manchester. " J have read your book, ' Esoteric Anthropo- 

 logy,' with very great satisfaction, and there is one part of it whose importance 

 cannot be over-rated, viz., the chapters on sexual relations ; and considering the 

 consequences of ignorance, the importance of affording reliable information on 

 those subjects seems greater than in any other branch of sanitary science " 



A Missionary in the Fiji Islands writes: "I bought ' Esoteric Anthropology ' 

 in Sydney, Australia, when I was preparing to come down to these Islands as a 

 missionary some years ago. That book I have found to be a most excellent com 

 panion in this out-of-the-way place, and have many a time thanked you for it. I 

 un thoroughly satisfied with the book. Doctors are scarce in Fiji. Nearly two 

 years ago my wife was confined, and, as I was doctor, monthly nurse, and every- 

 thing else, I followed the plan I thought best, and that was the plan of your "Eso- 

 teric Anthropology. " All went on well, and I have spoken of your plan of treat- 

 ment to my friends. " 



A Glasgow Surgeon writes in " Human Nature" : " ' Esoteric Anthropology ' 

 is one of the best popular works on physiology that we have seen. Dr. Nichols 

 writes with frankness on subjects usually shunned by popular writers, but igno- 

 rance concerning which has led to incalculable misery. He is never dull nor ob- 

 scure; and subjects often made repulsive by dry technicalities under his treatment 

 become attractive and fascinating. It is a multum in paroo of medical science." 



"FORTY YEARS OP AMERICAN LIFE," 



This was the first book Dr. Nichols published in England (edition of 1864 in 2 

 tola. 8vo), and it was widely and well reviewed and noticed, as will be seen by the 

 following extracts : 



" Dr. Nichols has broken new ground ground that has been little more than 

 touched by any of his predecessors and given us an exceedingly clear, pleasant, 

 and varied series of sketches of American life and manners, surprisingly free from 

 the customary defects of such works. No book we have ever read gave us anything 

 so clear and vivid an idea of American life. As a description of American homes, 

 and Americans at home, this book is the best we have seen." Saturday Review. 



" The descriptions of life in New England forty years ago, and in New York at the 

 present day, are really admirable. His narrative has that greatest of charms, that 

 he entirely sympathises in his heart even with the weaknesses which his intellect 

 jsses. Indeed, the ei 



confesses. Indeed, the early chapters of the first volume, in which he describes 

 \he State of New Hampshire during his boyhood, are perfectly \dylic. In conclu- 

 sion, we heartily recommend Dr. Nichols* book. It is thorouirbly amusing, 



