270  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {AmMay?imrm' 
Warner's  Therapeutic  and  Reference  Book.    Philadelphia  :  Wm.  R.  Warner  & 
Co.,  1889.    12  mo,  pp.  119.    Price  $1.00. 
Notes  on  weights  and  measures,  on  prescription  writing,  onincompatibles, 
on  poisons  and  antidotes  ;  tables  of  doses,  of  digestibility  of  food,  of  eruptive 
fevers,  etc.,  occupy  about  50  pages  of  the  book,  the  remainder  consisting  of 
a  formulary,  of  which  the  main  portion  is  arranged  alphabetically  ;  the  pre- 
scriptions are  by  prominent  physicians,  mostly  American  and  English  prac- 
titioners. 
American  Resorts  ;  with  Notes  Upon  Their  Climate. — By  Bushrod  W.  James, 
A.  M.,  M.  D.,  &c.  With  a  translation  from  the  German  by  Mr.  S.  Kauff- 
man  of  those  chapters  of  "  Die  Klimate  der  Erde,"  written  by  Dr.  A. 
Woeikoff,  of  St.  Petersburg,  Russia,  that  relate  to  North  and  South 
America  and  the  islands  and  oceans  contiguous  thereto.  8vo.,  pp.  285, 
cloth.    Price,  $2.00. 
The  author  states  upon  the  title  page  that  the  work  is  intended  for 
invalids  and  those  who  desire  to  preserve  good  health  in  a  suitable  climate. 
Having  been  written  for  the  general  public,  we  do  not  find  in  the  book 
learned  arguments  of  the  curative  effects  of  certain  localities  or  of  mineral 
springs.  The  work  is  descriptive  rather  than  argumentative,  and  on  look- 
ing over  its  pages  one  is  apt  to  regret  that  the  descriptions  are  not  more 
lengthy.  But  these,  though  brief,  are  sufficient  to  convince  the  reader,  if 
he  did  not  already  know  it,  that — so  the  author  states,  "it  seems  scarcely 
necessary  for  Americans  to  seek  relief  at  the  resorts  of  the  humid  Riviera, 
or  at  the  more  questionable  places  of  health  resorts  which  afford  the  excite- 
ments and  unsanitary  accompaniments  of  city  life,  when  in  their  own  land 
they  may  enjoy  equally  good  or  even  superior  climates." 
A  large  map  of  North  America,  giving  the  railroad  systems  of  Canada, 
the  United  States  and  Mexico,  is  bound  with  the  book,  the  perusal  of  which 
we  heartily  recommend  to  those  who  wish  for  information  about  the 
numerous  health  resorts  of  this  continent. 
Record  of  Experiments  conducted  by  the  Commissioner  of  Agriculture  in  the 
Manufacture  of  Sugar  from  Sorghum  at  Rio  Grande,  N.  J. ;  Kenner,  La. ; 
Conway  Springs,  Douglass  and  Sterling,  Kan.,  in  1888.    8vo.,  pp.  162. 
A  report  edited  by  H.  W.  Wiley,  chemist,  and  published  as  Bulletin  No. 
20  of  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  Division  of  Chemistry. 
Sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Control  of  the  State  Agricultural  Experiment 
Station  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  for  1888.    8vo.,  pp.  263. 
The  experiments  were  carried  on  under  the  direction  of  Prof.  C.  A. 
Goessmann. 
