New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-23
SOME NEW BOOKS

tont" ~. r. Uppncot co., whlch Wec Writtcn ior sno
Sd cal consideration Of patients rather than doctors,
seem to us admirable They embrace essays on
aThe Physician" sConvaiescence" ~Iain and its Con-
| sequences,. sThe Moral Management of Sick or In
! valid Children SNervousness and its influence on
Character" and @Outdoor and Camp Life for Women"
The first paper, "Tho Physician" IS an excellent
summary of The qualifications essential to success In
the practice Of medicine, and would figure appro-
pria.eIy as a vaIedictory lecture to a medical class
The articles on Pain and It's Consequences and on
"Neryousuc.s and It's influence Character" smbody
the teachings OF remarkably broad experience In The
illnesses Of women and contain strongly presented warn
ings against the modern tendency to sock protection
against nervous complaints and pain In opiates. NO
one can speak with greater authority than DR. Weir
Mitchell upon such matters, and certainly no one Is
likely to speak more soundly and shrewdly His re-
maria on the MANAGEMENT OF sick children also
full of wisdom kno Wedge, and In all respects the
little book is merorous and one which may DO most
proftably studied by all women whose supernuous
leisure or Idle habits OF life leave them opportunity
ard offer them temptation for the cultivation Of hys-
tera and tho almost inevitably consequent destruction
not only Of their happiness but that Of their fam
lies.
In "Iho Bddy Club" a. c. Mcclurg & co., Griffith
A. Nicholas has presented to young matrons what Is
perhaps the most admirable little home manual in cx-
stence. 1t relates chiefly to this management of scr
wants. but In dealing with this subject It makes incur
slons Of the wiset kind into other household relation
ships There Is remarkable, amazing amount Of COM
mon sense and practical Christianity within these two
covers.
"The Orig nal Mr.. Jacobs cThe Minerva Publishing
Col Is a olerably Wholesale appropriation OF Drumonts
book, ala France Julve," slightly adapted hero and
there TO this locality There Is indeed comparatively
little In it which does not belong to Drumont, though
a good deal of the French writer's matter has been
m ted ia OF
tier attack upon the Jewish all over the world
but epcc ally I'm France The recent revival OF Anti
mitism In several Eui opean counrles gave Drumonts
recklessly Incorporate work grcat circulation and
vogue Tho justification afforded by fierce abuse OF
people who,e material prosperity marked them out
for envy and hatred, blinded the readers Of Ia France
Juve" to the consideration that tho methods Of Dru
mont WOULD render perfectly easy to frame an equally
strong indictment against every race nation and
family in the world. Nothing is easier than to COM
rose such picture. 1t is only necessary to record
n thing but what Is evil BY thus manipulating his
tory it possible to make It appear that tho French
tie Germans, the English, the Italians, the spanlaI's
tie Creeks are vllanous and delestable Take
Trance for example and see how tippingiy the thing
may lie done. Following NJ DruiIonts plan OF ex-
cuson the Ante Galllcan would proceed in this
fashion 1t a FIcnchman who ordered the
sacre OF ST. Bartholomew and Fronchmcn who per
pctrated It. 1t was a Frcnchman who revoked the
Edct of Nantes. II Freedman who COMMANDED
the Drcgo modes. IL a Frcnchman who ravagcd
the Palstnaic II Erenchnan who assasslnaled
Henri the Fourth. 1t the cruelty and greed OF
the French nOhe- that brought on the Revolution II
was the brutality and ierocV of frenchmen that
created and maintained tins Terror. 1t was the cor
rup If FIcuchmeD that caused the collapse OF the
Ihri Empire 1t the treason of Frcnchman
that threw M,tz Into the hands Of the Germans. II
vas The Ioodthsty ard Insane fury OF Frenchmen
that gave Paris to the torch under the Commune"-
and forth al nfnitum.
The truth is that all history all lfc IS mixture
of GOOD and evil with the former, tat least during
pcrio OF real proess always In excess OF the latter
But slacc II Is the evil done which remains in evidence.
wae The god IS paraded, any superficial ex-
animation If almost wdl result la the appafl-
ton Of alarmingy long catalogue of wron-s, abuses
and crimes o. to collect such material IS not
10 history, yet this IS purely what NJ Drumoht
has done The effect Of his ded and gotesquely
unfair Undertaking Is certainly sensational, and the
unros trained bitterness Of his recital adds to the in
Justice of t. But all dcnuncatiCn Of the kind Is
alike I'm Its bsrbary and it, dlsingem |
business. and the measure Of NJ Drumonrs own In |
1eligtnce and candOr is distinctly presented In MS
greedy acceptance of the Old stupid fables OF semi
savage era, attrbuting to the Jews propensity 10
murder Chri q an children. That fact must settle
the status Of the book with all whose opinion Is of tho
81 g tost consequence.
Professor Jordan has gathered in this volume en-
titled 5 n Sho che,- (A.C.McClurg Col, number
Of pleasant papers scientific subjects and has added
three essays hitherto unpublished. lie has happy
way Of treating science for the use and behoof OF the
unscieItlc bu mere or less intelligent average maya
zinc ad ami nc put such Interest Into his slOes
about stonrs and other things, when writing for the
young, as ought to attract and hold that generally
fastidious aid capncous class. He has some very /
good papcls on the salmon and other fishes, and
Of an ascent Of tho Macrhorn which IS quite
full enough OF perls to be exciting.
There Is less ina ylnation in the "Leiters from
Heaven Funk & Wagnals) than there was in tho |
Letters from HE'LL" Tut in their faithful following OF
ort odOx Christian doctrine they have evidently met
with a considerable welcome and no doubt their very !
sob ,rne,s and material mot matcralist atmosphere
give them for many good people greater vcrsimt |
tude.