Daily Life

436 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HYGIENE

mirably. They deserve unstinted gratitude. They have
provided a good working classification, they have suggested
a grouping which may stand the tests of time, and they have
provided an excellent foundatior, for identification. The
work is mainly fundamental.

-CHARLES E. MARSHALL.

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Sanitation in Daily Life. By ELLEN H. RICHARDS, Instructor
in Sanitary Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Whitcomb 6 Barrows, 30 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, Mass. Price, 60 cents.
In this new book Mrs. Richards again emphasizes her
principle of inculcating upon growing persons the necessity
of forming sanitary habits and following sanitary rules.
She mentions especially the specific subjects of the clean
city, the clean house, habits of cleanliness and sanitary
regulations with their various sub-topics, but in a very brief
way. The book is merely a collection of rules, with experiments
at the end of each chapter to show the importance of
these. It seems to be written for teachers, and yet at times
the child is directly addressed. This fact, with the frequent
repetitions, makes the whole rather inconsistent and almost
unsatisfactory, as it is too far advanced for the child and too
simple for the instructor.

-G. I. FAIRCHILD.