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solutions of the various problems in hip-roofs, gothic-work, centering, splayed 
work, joints and jointing, hinging, dovetailing, mitering, timber-splicing, circular 
work, etc. It seems to be thoroughly practical and reliable, and is written in a 
clear and concise manner, adapted to either master workman or apprentice. The 
first thirty-two pages are devoted to carpenter's geometry, with numerous illus- 
trations, while the whole volume contains over three hundred explanatory engrav- 
ings and cuts. 
The Maintenance of Health: By J. Milner Fothergill, M, D,, M. R. C. P. 
i2mo, pp. 366. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1S83. For sale by M. 
H. Dickinson. 
This is a book which teaches a vast deal that should be known in every 
family concerning the means of preserving health and vigor of body. It is not a 
medical work, but rather a hygienic work; one however, that may be consulted 
without hesitation by medical students as well as by fathers and mothers, and 
nurses. 
It commences with the discrimination between ideal health and practical 
health, explaining what the latter actually consists of, including bodily and mental 
conditions in the categor}''. Then takes up the training of youth, the period of 
growth, the maintenance of bodily integrity in maturity, the changes induced by 
advancing age and the corresponding changes rendered necessary in habits, 
diet and clothing. 
The succeeding chapters are devoted to food and clothing, to stimulants and 
tobacco, the effects of inheritance, the election of pursuit in life, overwork and 
■physiological bankruptcy, mental strain, over-work and tension, hygiene, what to 
do in emergencies, advice as climates suited to consumptive, gouty and rheumatic 
patients, etc. 
No similar work that we have seen covers so much ground or covers it so 
well. 
Contributions to North American Ethnology : Volume V ; Illustrated ; 
4to. pp. 237. Department of the Interior, Washington, 1882. 
This is one of the supplemental volumes of the United States Geographical 
and Geological Survey, in charge of Major J. W. Powell. It is most handsomely 
printed and fittingly illustrated. The first article is entitled Observations on Cup- 
Shaped and other Lapidarian Sculpture in the Old World and in America, illus- 
trated with sixty-one engravings, by Charles Rau of the Smithsonian Institution. 
The second is upon Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets; illustrated 
with eleven plates and figures, by Robert Fletcher, M. R. C. S., Eng., Acting 
-Asst. Surgeon U. S. Army. 
The third is one which we have noticed before, A Study of the Manuscript 
