*7° Analyses of Books. [March, 
ransack the two hemispheres for the red, yellow, blue, green, and 
violet dye-stuffs, as it was not many years back.” 
The “ raw material ” for manufacturing tindtorial agents un- 
doubtedly “ lies around us,” but unfortunately it is not manufac- 
tured around us. It is sent abroad to be manufactured by alien 
capital, skill, and labour, and comes back to us at prices which 
play into the hands of our industrial rivals. The “ ransacking 
the two hemispheres ” was to a great extent simply importing 
dye-wares from the colonies to the profit of our countrymen and 
fellow-subjeCts. 
The section on dye-wares contains some errors not easily 
accounted for. Thus Brazil wood is described as identical with 
camwood ! The names adopted for the dye-wares and chemicals 
are in many instances different from those in use, in dye- and 
print-works, with which the technological student should make 
himself familiar. Typographical errors are rather numerous. 
In reading over the index we come, e.g., upon the “ ferrocyanide 
of tar ” — a gruesome compound. 
As a whole, however, this little work deserves commendation, 
and in the probable case of a second edition it may be easily 
freed from its defects. 
On Life and its Lessons. Being the Inaugural Address delivered 
to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society in the Session 
1882-3. By James George Davey, M.D. Bristol: Fawn 
and Son. 
This Address bears the aspeCt Of a controversial manifesto. 
The author sets out with the diCtum of Pope, “ The proper study 
of mankind is man,” to which, for men of Science other than 
physicians, we must demur in toto. After referring to the leCtures 
of Lawrence on Man, Dr. Davey contends that there are in our 
days “ men of mark and taking rank as physiologists who are 
using their best endeavours to stamp out the materialistic views 
of the new school of thought, and to replace them with the meta- 
physical and old-fashioned theories of early and ignorant times. 
The controversialists insist on enveloping their studies in so 
dense a cloud of assumption and mysticism that truth is nowhere 
to be found. Their reason is beclouded with a wild imagination, 
— and so it is they are lost in their delusions, — and, like the 
many recognised as crazed, are really objects of our compassion 
and sympathy.” 
Among these writers the foremost place is assigned to Dr. 
W. B. Carpenter, who is in substance, though not in so many 
words, accused of being swayed by “ dominant ideas ” ! 
