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THE SKIN IN HEALTH AND Disease: By L. D. Bulkley, M. D., Philadelphia : 
Presley Blakiston, 1880: p. 148, 12 mo., 50 cents. 
This is number ten of the American Health Primers, which have proved so. 
timely and so successful. The author, who is attending physician at the New 
York hospital, writes with experience and consequently with a ready pen; 
dividing his subject into but four chapters, which, however, cover the whole 
ground as fully and completely as could be asked ina merely popular treatise. 
In the first chapter he undertakes to combat certain popular prejudices in regard 
to diseases of the skin by briefly describing the anatomy and physiology of the 
skin. The second is devoted to directions in regard to the care of the skin in 
health and for the prevention of disease, and this is the most important of the 
whole. ‘The third takes up the diseases to which the skin is lable, their recogni- 
tion and home treatment. The last furnishes directions for diet, hygiene and 
mode of life, which will aid the physicians in their cure. The author’s remarks 
‘upon soaps will certainly surprise most readers and should serve to put them 
upon their guard against the numerous ‘‘ medicated,” ‘‘ soothing ” and ‘‘ curative” 
nostrums, which are usually manufactured of the cheapest and most objectiona_ 
ble ingredients and are far more likely to communicate disease than to remove 
it. It is abundantly illustrated and handsomely printed. 
FELTER’s ELEMENTS OF ARITHMETIC: By S. A. Felter, A. M., and S. A. Far- 
rand, Ph. D., New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1880, p. 154, 12 mo. 
Cloth, 30 cents. 
Felter’s Arithmetics have been used for years in the New York schools and. 
have received the highest commendations from the principals of many of them. 
Their advantages seem to be the ignoring of theoretical discussions, technica] 
definitions and rules, and the furnishing of a larger variety of practical examples 
and a closer and improved grading, while the illustrations are marvelously fine 
for a school book. ‘The charm of the illustrations and the easy and simple steps 
of the ascent, from the notation one book, two boys, three ducks, four hens and 
five birds, all depicted in the most artistic manner, to the handling of fractions. 
also illustrated in an equally attractive way, must necessarily beguile the most 
wary boy into an interested examination and study of the subject before he 
knows it. The series comprises the above and The New Intermediate, The 
Advanced and the Complete Arithmetics, all by the same authors and all spoken | 
of, by those who have used them, in the highest terms. 
