Dr. Hutchinson has given the public a book that is as delightful reading as it is blankly heretical. We do not, of course, approve of all the views therein put forward, but we do realize that it is by outspokenness such as this, on what may be deemed popular and professional superstitions, that healthy investigation is courted and the wholesale acceptance of the "science" of proverbs is deprecated. Among the subjects dealt with are diet delusions, "poison foods," exercise, sleep, sunshine and fresh air, baths and bathers, clothes and the woman, complexion, sins of the shoemaker, child-life, and the health of the middle-aged man. Hutchinson champions common sense against the fiddle-faddle of much so-called "scientific" dietetics, which persists in treating the living organism as on the same basis with a test-tube. He castigates the breakfast-food, vegetarian and other dietary fads, protests against the "deification of the disagreeable" in life, and