A NEW PREMIUM! 
“In a Nutshell,” 
Tlic latest and best worlt of 
DPL. DIO LEWIS. 
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-WHAT IS “IN A NUTSHELL7” 
The book has just been written in compliance with the urgent solicitations of several 
prominent educators having a large number of youths entrusted to their care. It is an 
epitome of the wisdom and the observations of a whole lifetime concerning the numerous 
topics which most interest all who would like to stand high in the sphere in which they live. 
While many of the subjects treated are commonplace, such as Climate, Ventilation, 
Sleep. Food, Mastication, Digestion, Exercise. Cold Baths, Building a Brain, Longev¬ 
ity, Quintessence of the Blood, etc., etc., there is not a paragraph in the book 
which is one bit stupid or uninteresting. Several, copiously illustrated chap¬ 
ters upon “ Carious Fashions” constitute an invaluable feature of the work. Many 
of the distortions of the savage, as well as of the civilizee, aro fully exposed; 
and the whole subject is treated in a new light. The hideousness of some of our 
prevailing fashions are so graphically portrayed that every sensible reader must henceforth 
look with pity, rather than pride, upon their crippled monstrosities. The book fervently 
appeals to our youth for reform ; and it is believed that parents will eagerly seize upon this 
opportunity to help their children. It contains interesting and vital fads, the knowledge 
of which is worth a thousand times the price of the book. 
-WHAT OUR MOST DISTINGUISHED EDUCATORS SAY ABOUT “IN A NUTSHELL.” 
Inasmuch as the work had been written at the suggestion of several prominent edu¬ 
cators, the publishers, before issuing it in the regular bound form, mailed “/dvanco 
Sheets ” to heads of our most prominent institutions of learning for the purpose of ascer¬ 
taining whether it could be improved by their suggestions and criticisms. Hunureds of 
college presidents, and others, have responded in long letters of their heartiest praise. 
These letters may be fairly epitomized by the following phrases: 
distributing this little book to stu¬ 
dents.”— Prin. Warner, Business College , 
Akron. 
“ The more I read it the more I am 
sense.”— President convinced that it ought to be circu- 
Patton , Hoirnrd University dated by the hundred thousand.”— 
“Cannot fail to be useful.”— Presi-'Pres. Hooper, Rust University, 
dent Fairchild. Oberlin College. j “ The book will be invaluable not only 
* The points are in jud the form to to students, but to everybody who shall 
arrest attention and do good.”—Pres, j read it. I think I shall put it in the 
“ Very valuable .”—President Porter, 
Tale College. 
“ Most admirable. ’— President Cattell, 
Lafayette College. 
“ Clear, common 
Herrick, Pacific University. 
“ Will give evidence of my approval 
by seeing that copies are laid before 
all our students.”— Pres Moore, Earl- 
ham College. 
“ It contains more wisdom about 
health than can be found elsewhere 
in many huge volumes.”— Pres. Miller, 
Mt. Morris College. 
" The work is adapted to all man¬ 
kind. Shall send an order as soon as 
published.”— Pres. Spinner. Burlington 
College. 
“ Just the tocsin of warning which 
this impetuous aue needs. Cannot 
begin to read without a desire to 
finish, and cannot finish without a 
strong desire to act.”—Pres. Belong, 
Lebanon Valley College. 
" If every family had a copy there 
would be much less suffering and vul¬ 
garity.”— Principal Becker, Hinman's 
Business College. 
“ What can they be furnished for by 
the hundred ?”— Prin. Rusk, School of 
Elocution. 
“It is packed with good hits in 
plain, attractive form.”— Pres, Payne, 
Wesleyan University. 
“ As was to be expected from such 
a source, thy excellent work is 
crowded with most valuable practical 
suggestions.”— Pres Magill, Sicarthmore 
College. 
“Why do you address it especially 
to college students ? It seems equally 
applicable to all intelligent people.”— 
Prof. Hitchcock, Amherst College. 
"Practical and to the point.”— Pres. 
Merrell, Ripon College. 
“ It would be a noble colporteur 
work to go from college to college 
hands of our teachers for daily use 
in their classes.”— Supt. Hafeler, {New¬ 
ark, 0). 
“It is fitted to seize the attention 
of students and guard them against 
abuses. Dr. Lewis lias done a ren 
the colleges of the country 
".ring it, and by making it so 
d verse.”— Pres. Magoun, Iowa 
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"This work alone wou'd 
worthy monument of a useiul 
— Pres. Mayliey, Detroit. 
“ Its style beautifully illustrates the 
power of rhetoric, making the book 
a useful model for classes in English 
literature.”— Pres. Mur fee, Howard Col¬ 
lege, Ala. 
I have read thousands of pages of 
medical works in search of the - very 
information herb given ‘In a Nut 
shell’ without being benefited as I 
have been by this woik. It is a gem.” 
— Rev. Livingston Smith. 
"No one can fail to understand this 
little book. It should be in the hands 
of all schools and families that the 
young may learn to take care of that 
beautiful temple, the human body.”— 
Supt. Bond , Connecticut Industrial School 
for Girls. 
“ At what rate could yon furnish 
one hundred copies for distribution t” 
— Prof. Weidner, Augustana Theological 
Seminary. 
“‘In a Nutshell’ is the best thnr r 
of the kind that ever came to 1 y 
notice. The style is unique, fascinat¬ 
ing and vigorous, and the matter 
deeply interesting and important. It 
should be in the hands of every young 
person in Christendom. Thus dis¬ 
seminated. rarefu’ly reed and faith¬ 
fully practiced,the benefits that.wculd 
accrue to the race are incalculable.” 
—Horace E. Smith, Bean, Albany Law 
School. 
“If the habits of our children were 
formed upon his counsels, health and 
longevity would largtly take the 
place of physical weakness and pre¬ 
mature t.eulh. Having observed 
tin so rules, I can testify to their 
benign < fticiency. I am just entering 
my seventy-eighth year with a sense 
of vi or rare with me forty years 
aeo.”— Pres. Thompson , Theological Insti¬ 
tute, Hartford, Cl. 
“Warnings are given with great 
caution, and without exciting those 
propensities which it aims to con¬ 
trol.”— Supt. Brv;y. 
“One hard y knows which to ad¬ 
mire most, the perfect English or the 
striking presentation of the subject 
by this ti e most eminent sanitarian 
in the United States.”— Prof. Young , 
Hartford, Ct. 
“I wish i': were possible to put a 
cony of th s little volume into the 
hands of cv. ry student—Loy and girl 
—in our 1:1 I do not s< e bow the 
book could be improved.’— Supt. Ellis, 
Rochester, N. I. 
" If students wou'd act upon Dr. 
Lewis’suggestions their work would 
increase in quantity and improve in 
quality.”— Pres. 'Schuyler, Baldwin Uni¬ 
versity. 
“This little book confirms my pre¬ 
vious hi'di estimate of 1 he author ’ ’— 
Pres. Quimky, New Hampshire Female Col¬ 
lege. 
“ My aged mother, now in her 90th 
year, was so fascinated with it that 
she read it through at one sitting. 
Each morning after devotional ex¬ 
ercises I r< rd achat Ur of it to our 
nsscmb c<l students ”— Prin. Allen, West 
Newton Preparatoi g School, 
“I with to arrange with you for a 
copy for c ’ch of our students 
Pres. Loos, Kentucky University. 
Address, Seed-Time and Harvest, 
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