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matayrial barley, sure ’tis a transmagnification that bates all the 
metamurphosys of Ovid, as far as Blarney bangs Banagher. Och, 
Larry,” says he—and he hugged me to his heart as he said it— 
“Och, Larry, to taste the first glass of that aqua vite, that well- 
be-named water of life, nayther could nor hot, but with the 
breath of the fire on it still, it’s like a whiff of heaven, or a fore- 
taste of the nectar of Paradise !” 
Dr. Pick on Memory. Uondon: Tribner and Co. 
THIS work which appears to have been very successful, has 
reached its fourth edition, appears dissimilar to the works 
antecedent on the subject, inasmuch as the learned author 
does not base his system on mere Mnemonical or artificial, 
but on a mental concatenation of events, an abstract, but 
coherent adaptation of things both analogous and conversely 
so, whereby the minds may be strengthened and the 
memory brought to bear upon antecedent and contempo- 
raneous events, with a fidelity hardly creditable. The 
system is applicable to the permanent retention of numbers 
concrete or otherwise, and in fact, to history, chronology, 
chemistry, and foreign languages, equally with abstract 
science—other Mnemoists have done much, but the virtue 
of Dr. Pick’s system is, that he abjures all Mnemonican aid, 
and bases his system upon that due exercise of the mental | 
faculties which must ever command success. 
Pure Dentistry, and What it Does for Us. By A. Eskell. 
Grosvenor street, Grosvenor square, London. John 
Clemerts. 
WE have received the second edition of this little work, 
and must congratulate the author on the lucid, genuine, 
and coherent manner in which he treats his subject. Apart 
from the merits which this book possesses as a medical 
manual, which are indisputably great, it forms a pleasing 
and complete compendium of Pure Dental Surgery. The 
great advantage Mr. Eskell’s book strikes us as possessing 
is that of total absence of medical puff. | 
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