The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17
Literary Lights and Shadohs
BY $. MAYS BALL

'Health, Strength and Happiness"
 book of practical advice, by c. W. Salee-
 by. CMitchell Kennerley)
 C. W. Saleeby, M. D., F. R. S., Edin- burg. wrote a book which was published in the summer of 1907 called Worry, the Disease of the Age" which book was discussed about as much as any that has been recently sent forth. Worry. etc.," was and is a great book; about the best and as good as the last word, at that time, on the subject. pr. Saleeby is distinguished gentleman of England; among other books he has written, 'The Cycle of Life" Evolution the Master Key" Ivory, the Disease of the Age" ''The Conquest of Cancer" "A Plan of Campaign'-and the howls that went up and down when that book came outl- Biology and History" and now Heath, Strength and Happiness" is written, so Dr. Saleeby says, for the young man, the man of middle age and the elderly-not least for the prematurely elderly. Any attempt to include the hygiene of child hood would have been ridiculous, for it is my purpose to regard the mind as the foremost thing in man at all ages and proper discussion of childhood would therefore involve the treatment of what we call education"
 Dr. Saleeby says that the child is not merely a peculiar animal, as many seem to think (particularly some old hard hearted bachelors this reviewer knoWs) nor yet a discarnate mind of small size as the old pedagogy thought, but a being composed of mental and physical factors all characteristic and yet protean. Tt is the most fascinating subject in the world adds Dr. Saleeby, speaking of
 
 separate volume to it. Similarly as re- gards woman"
 Dr. Saleeby says that the greater part of the characters of men and women are not male and female but simply human That the principles of hygiene are fundament- ally the same for both That the needs of the human being as regards air and food and clothing and exercise are all most identical, if not absolutely so for the two sexes
 Therefore, Dr. saleeby has included in 'Health, Strength and Happiness the discussion of all these sexess questions which are at least as urgent for women as for men and of greater racial import ance in their case.
 Dr. Saleeby explains that the hair for instance, Is sexless and the principles of its care, to which he condescends to all Jude in his book, "condescension though it
 
 Dr. Saleeby adds that in this particular case man may learn a great deal from the practice of woman, which is obviously much more successful than his own
 Dr. Saleeby says further, however, in re- gard to the sexes
 There will remain, however, a number of momentous questions which concern woman alone directly. though all coming ages through her. It has to be asked how far woman fin transition Is woman in transition from womanhood to some- thing which is not manhood and for which no word exists. The fact that some women are now earning their living as steeplejacks or whatever 1t may be- must not deter us from asking totally without reference to what our grandmothers would have thought. whether the hygiene of womanhood is really compatible in the highest degree with any profession but one-and that one supreme: and an effort should be made to put period to the un- wisdom of which the bitter fruit is so much hysteria, nerasthenia and chronic Illness of all sorts amongst women. To this whole subject. which seems to me to have the gravest social consequences, l also propose to devote special vol ume. Meanwhile the whole of the present volume is relevant to the needs of women considered simply as human beings pos scssed of souls and appetites and physical needs, as men possess. and of at least equal importance to the scale of being"
 This new book of Dr. Saleeby is one of the best of its kind that has been published in a long, long time. Dr. Saleeby Is an authority on all such subjects and when he discusses the need of air; the need of light. of clothes, clothing in detail need of exercise and