The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-09 00:00:00

Little Useful Books.

Notes on Epidemics for the Use of the Public. BY
F. E. Anstie, M.D. (Jackson, Walford, and
Hodder.) This very useful little work, which
appeared in a briefer form in the British Quarterly,
is deserving of practical and general consideration
before the warm weather sets in. Prevention is
better than cure, and assuredly far more practicable.
Another manual of health on the same wise prin-
ciple—the prevention of evil—is also before us.
Routledge's Useful Library—lnfant Nursing, by
Mrs. Pedley. These very useful instructions on the
management of young children appeared in the
columns of the Queen, under. the well-known initials
of U. N. A. They are well-deserving attention.
The Modern Gynznetst, by Charles Spencer
(Warne), gives one hundred and twenty illustra-
tions of the sanitary art.
Plain Rules for the Stable, by Prof. Garage°
(Warne), gives useful information in the briefest
possible form.
How to Cook Potatoes, by Georgiana Hill
(Routledge.) Georgiana Hill has already ill'
structed us in the art of cooking eggs and cooking
apples—she now, to the astonishment of all readers,
Irish no less than English, informs us how to cook
and dress potatoes in one hundred different ways
The Companion Letter-Writer. (Warne.) A cora-
plete guide to correspondence on all subjects relat-
ing to Friendship, Love, and Business, with nume-
rous commercial forms. In this invaluable WI;
the lover may learn how to address his mistress, and
the lady is favoured with copies of the replies,
favourable and unfavourable, to select from. "B'
little boy" is instructed how to thank " a gentlemso
who saved him from drowing 1" In fact, in every
incident and emotion possible to human life one,
has only to turn to the " Companion Letter-Writer' ,
for instruction how to speak, and think, and feel •
Poultry as a Meat Supply, by the author of
" The Poultry Kalendar" (Nimmo), contains WO
to hen-wives how to rear and manage poultry eco-
nomically and profitably.
The Handy Book of the Law of Trustees, by
Denny Urlin, of the Inner Temple (Wilson's Legal
Hand Books), is brief and to the purpose.
The Law Relating to the Cattle Plague, by
W. Cox, Esq. (Law Times-office), is likely to prove
highly useful to those concerned in the manage-
ment or transference of cattle. " The law relating
to the cattle plague," says the learned compiler;
is so scattered, so confused, and so difficult 01
construction," that he has wisely deemed " a collee'
lection of it in a convenient form likely to Pr°T°
useful to the public as well as the profession."
Memory, by William Stokes (H.ouLston aed
Wright), has reached its seventh edition.
Handbook to Government Situations. (Stanford)'
By how many aspirants for the sweets of official
patronage will this book be welcomed. The ex-
amination papers and extracts from the reports °:
the commissioners which it contains are likely l'uo
render it useful to those preparing for competitil
examinations.
A Little Book About Learning the Pianoforte. 131:
Emanuel Aguilar (Groombridge and Sons).--11-111'
very excellent little work contains rules and re;
marks by such authorities as Bach, Mozart, aee'l
others, taking for its text the saying of Michas
Angelo, " Trifles make perfection."
The Story of the Telegraph in India. By Charles
C. Adley, C.E. (Spon), strongly urges parlialnee-
tary interference for the protection of the telegraPh
in India.
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Some Effects of the Climate of Italy. BY Thoe
King Chambers, M.D. (Churchill), contains e-
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lectures delivered in St. Mary's Hospital, "d • .
ported in the Lancet, in which the renovating
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fluence of the Italian climate is very haPPYlnion
forth by one well qualified to express an Itiot.
in the double capacity of physician ancl,l?`_bours
Dr. Chambers, being obliged to relinquish ht-raa
from ill health, derived so much benefit fro aideet
sidence in Italy that he gladly evinces his gr_,„. to
in the recommendation of the same reEnc".T
others.