The Red City.

Nearly all Dr. Mitchell's novels bear the impress of his scientific work in the shape of characterizations of various forms of mental malady. "The Red City" differs somewhat from its predecessors in that its psychologic studies, while keen and penetrating, involve no pathologic element. Entering on an important field of medical and national history, Dr. Mitchell has revived with interesting fidelity the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia. It is a strongly drawn picture in which, on a background of mystery and terror, stand out in bold relief many touching and heroic examples of courage, faithfulness and love of kind. There are graphic sketches of Rush and some of his less famous colleagues—among them the eccentric Chovet—of Stephen Girard, and of the devoted Quakers, some of whom lost their lives in that battle with pestilence. The story never before has been told with such truth and vigor, and physicians