By Sir Henry Thompson

This is a much-to-be-commended and really instructive book. It goes into first principles, both of health and of the chemical properties of food, and would be far more useful to take to wild places or distant lands than any ordinary cookery book. The commonplace of living is taken up and handled for our benefit by a man of great talent and learning. Everybody who has not got it, ought to buy it -and study it, too.

The next is what, I suppose, would be called a quack-book, and its name is 'Power through Eepose,'by Annie Payson Call. It is an admirable, healthy, and useful little book, particularly suited to the straining, and striving, and overworking of the age. It will be found most helpful to the sleepless and the nervous, if they will study it and give attention to its directions.

Last, but by no means least in its great utility, comes 'A Handbook of Nursing for the Home and the Hospital,'by Catherine Jane Wood. Miss Wood was for years lady-superintendent of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, so she speaks with great authority. Though it has reached the eleventh edition, it is astonishing how many people have never heard of this first-rate little handbook. It is condensed and yet detailed, it is medical and yet simple and intelligible to a degree which brings it within the comprehension of anyone. In fact, I believe it to be the best book on nursing ever written.

This little poem of Mr. Lionel Tennyson's has, I believe, never been published; a friend gave it to me some years ago. I think it will appeal to many people as it does to me: