Books upon the subject of diet are so (comparatively) numerous that one must infer the existence of a very considerable number of people making a serious study of their daily bread. For the: most part we belong to the School of Solomon. So long as a mam be not visited with the Carlylean calamity, the general are content to take care of the table and let the chemistry of digestion take care of itself. Less than the lilies of the field do they. toil (to make their digestive organs beautifully efficient). If things go wrong, they visit a doctor, got well (if they are fortunate) pay well (if they are rich), and quite forget that many, perhaps most, of their ills have been due to personal negligence in the art of eating scientifically. Those readers who may have frittered away a number of years in feeding themselves unscientifically, and now desire to repent them of their sins, will do well to procure a copy of Dr. Cecil Webb-Johnson's "Diet for Women,'' (Mills & Boon, London). There is much in it for the instruction of a mere man. He writes as one with authority and the! little book is uncommonly interest-_ing. It is extremely improbable} that those who have been accustomed to three unscientific meals a day will as they read resolve to} live henceforth. according to Thoreau and Eustace Miles, but at least they may be expected to contemplate future menus in a chastened mood.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.