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every other connexion with the subject of sleep, may
be materially influenced by habit."—Davis.
Diet and Regimen.—An extract from the life and
diary Of a celebrated Italian nobleman, will be of ser-
vice to the reflecting mind. Up to the age of forty he
was possessed of an infirm and weakened constitution,
" when, by obstinately persisting in an exact course of
temperance, he recovered a perfect state of health ; in-
somuch, that at fourscore he published his book, which
has been translated into English under the title of
Sure and certain Methods of attaining a long and
healthy Life.' He lived to give a third or fourth edi-
tion of it, and, after having passed his hundredth year,
died without pain or agony, like one who falls asleep."
Speaking of the folly of excess at table, he says :
" This error has so far seduced us, that it has prevailed
upon us to renounce a frugal way of living, though
taught us by nature, even from the beginning of the
world, as being that which would lengthen our days ;
and has cast us into those excesses, which naturally
tend to shorten the number of them. We become old,
before we have experienced the pleasure of being young;
and the time which ought to be the summer of our lives,
is frequently the beginning of their winter. We are
sensible of the failure of our strength, and of our weak-
ness and declension, even before we come to perfection.
Sobriety, on the other hand, maintains us in the natural
state wherein we ought to be : our youth is lasting, and
our manhood attended with a vigour that does not begin
to decay for several years. A whole century must pass
away, before wrinkles can be formed on the face, or
gray hairs grow on the head. This is so true, that
when men gave themselves not up to voluptuousness,
they were more strong and lively at fourscore than we
are at present at forty."—Lewis Cornaro, p. 5.
" There is no question to be made, but that a regular
life puts at distance the sad hour of death; since it is
able to keep the humours in an exact temperature :
whereas, on the contrary, gluttony and drunkenness
disturbs, heats, and puts them into a ferment ; which is
the origin of catarrhs, fevers, and almost all the acci-
dents which hurry us to our graves."—ldem, p. 119.
" Since no man, therefore, can have a better physi-
cian than himself, nor a more sovereign antidote than a
regimen, every one ought to follow my example; that
is, to study his own constitution, and to regulate his life
agreeable to the rules of right reason."—ldem, p. 31.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

NOTICES.

The Christian Remembrancer for September. Burns,

London

Heavy and bombastical as this periodical usually is,
several of the articles in the present number are simply
ridiculous. The opening paper is entitled " Present
state of Theology in the English Church," and here we
have sunday schools condemned, and pronounced " the
hot beds of heresy." We are told that "few of the
clergy know how to employ aright the precious moments
that are passed beside the bed of sickness"—and that,
with the exception of " plain sermons by the contribu-
tors to the Tracts for the Times," "Mr. Ward's, Mr.
Newman's, Archdeacon Manning's, and Mr. Maurice's
sermons," the reviewer " knows not where to look for
writers who have the appearance of having mastered both
themselves and their subject." Well may this writer
" fear that he has very imperfectly succeeded in making
himself understood," for whilst he casts such disgraceful
calumnies as these with such apparent sangfroid on per-
sons whom he would do well to imitate, he deprecates as
extremely unchristian and uncharitable, the slightest ex-
posure of the semi-popery of tractarianism, as an attack
on " some brother clergyman." In another article we
have a notice of a pamphlet entitled " Mesmerism, the
Gift of God," in reply to the " Satanic Agency and
Mesmerism" of Mr. M`Neile. Here the writer candidly
acknowledges that he has never seen the latter publica-
tion, and that he knows nothing of Mesmerism, and yet
with the most consummate impertinence be pronounces
that Mr. M`Neile's opponent has the best of the argu-
ment. There are, however, a few pearls scattered here
and there, on subjects which are not theological.