The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Nimmo'B Shakspere.

The first of a series of seven " shilling parts,"
(each part, judging from this one, of more than
250 pages, seven parts, which are intended to
comprise within them the whole of the works of
William Shakspere)—has here made its appearance.
The initial instalment of the work now before us
contains (for a shilling) The Tempest, The Two
Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of
Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of
Errors, Much Ado about Nothing, and Love's
L..bour Lost—all of these complete, and together
with these the opening scenes in Midsummer Night's
Dream. The edition (not withiltanding its many
rivals just now) is so good and so cheap that it is
tolerably certain, we should think, of a large, and
therefore remunerative, circulation.

Ilinchmoor. By Dr. John Brown. Ecimonstone and
Douglas.

Another of those relishing little essays by which
Dr. John Brown has built up for himself within the
last few years so delightful a reputation. Minch-
moor, however, is hardly " up" to the last of its
predecessors, It is certainly not to be mentioned
in the same breath with " Rab and his Friends"—
the best of the whole bunch.

Post-office London Directory for the Counties of
Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Bucking-
ham, Berks, and Oxford. Kelly and Co., Old

Boswell-court.

The third edition of the u Post-office Directory
for the six counties above enumerated, produced
under the editorship of E. R. Kelly, M.A., is much in
advance of its predecessors, and, as far as we have
been is a marvel of correctness.
Several
have been made to the
t o test it,
information usually contained in directories, while in
the volume under notice lists of Hundreds and Poor
Law Unions have been' included in the topo-
graphy of each county, and it is stated under each
parish in what Hundred, Union, and County Court
District it is situated. The Post-office Savings
Banks have been noticed, the names of the parish
clerks are given under each parish, lists of farm
bailiffs of gentlemen farming their own land, have
been added, and the new lines of railway have been
laid down in the county maps attached to each
division of the book, corrected down to the present
date. In order to guard against any inaccuracy,
proof sheets of the work have been submitted to all
the prominent persons in the respective places men-
tioned, and thus, while we have a volume that adds
much to the reputation of the Messrs. Kelly, we
have one that can be implicitly relied upon.

The Universal Newspaper and Periodical List.
This very useful little volume has just been
published by Mr. Watson, of Brydges-street. It
contains a list of all the newspapers, with their
politics, prices, etc., published throughout the king-
dom, also a similar catalogue of all the weekly,
monthly, quarterly, magazines and periodicals,
together with a list of all the foreign and colonial
newspapers. To those requiring information of the
above description the book wili be found exceedingly
useful.

Consumption Arrested by the Turkish Bath.

Hardsvicke, Piccadilly.

This is a reprint of the report of Dr. Leared, first
published in the Lancet, preceded by directions and
observations for the construction of Turkish Baths
for medical purposes by David Urquhart, Esq.
No one, it will be admitted on all hands, has stood
up so valiantly or more successfully in defence of
the Turkish Bath, both as a curative and a luxury,
than Mr. Urquhart, and the pleasure of seeing the
blind prejudices which formally existed against it
melting away, must be heightened by the fact that
heat, administered as he directed, has been found
remarkably successful in conquering one of the
direst foes to the human frame, viz , consumption.
The little volume now before us gives plain direr.
tions for the economical construction of hot air
baths similar to those which at present exist in
Jermyn-street, but of course not in so costly a style.
Speaking of consumption, Mr. Urquhart remarks
in his introduction—

Consumption is a modern disease. It was no more known
formerly in England than it is known to-day in countries
whose habits resemble those of England formerly, even
when there is no bath.
There can be, therefore, no greater error than to suppose
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the disease has made progress, relief may be so afforded.
It is a chance, an incident, and no wore. Such relief is,
however, within the reach of a fraction only of the sufferers.
I hose who are so favoured by fortune as to be able to
change their abodes, are at the prevent moment only flying
from effective means of restoration which are now to be
found at home.
The report of Dr. Leared contains many very start-
ling instances in which the bath has been pecu-
liarly successful in arresting the ravages of con-
sumption, and the eminent physician concludes his
paper with the following remarks :
In a disease which condemns so many to prolonged suf-
fering and death, and in which we have been powerless to
save, a treatment cannot fail to be welcome which as an
agent of cure promises so well, and which has been at
least proved greatly to alleviate suffering. If it, unfortu-
nately, fell to my lot to be affected by phthisis, I should
give the hot-air bath the fullest trial.