the practical from the impractical and visionary. He practises and he teaches, and he has learned from both pursuits until he is able to give the profession just what it demands. Too many writers on therapeutics have followed physiological tests upon animals so far that they have almost forgotten human beings. The book has two main sections: the first dealing with drugs, remedial measures, and foods for the sick, and the second with applied therapeutics. Each section is arranged alphabetically, and the two are closely cross-referenced, so that complete information on any point is quickly and easily found. One index refers to drugs, and the other to diseases and remedies, so that a complete list of indicated remedies is presented from which the practician may choose what seems to him best, and he has no chance of forgetting any of the others that might do as well, or better. This book is the most practical on the market today. It is revised completely.-A. L. R.

The Principles and Practise of Medicin. Designed for the use of Practicians and Students of Medicin. By William Osler, M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Regius Professor of Medicin, Oxford University; Honorary Professor of Medicin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Formerly Professor of the Institute of Medicin, McGill University, Montreal; and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Sixth edition, thoroly revised from new plates. Publisht by D. Appleton & Co., New York and London, 1905. Price not stated.

So thoro has been the revision since the last issue, so many sections having been rewritten, and so many alterations having been made, that the sixth edition is practically a new book. Because of a larger page and different type, the size of the book is not increast. The book is an accurate mirror of current knowledge on symptomatology and treatment of disease, presented by a master hand. There are 22 charts and 10 diagrammatic figures, and the book has 1114 pages and an excellent index. The work is a complete, conservativ, and up-to-date treatise, and we can find nothing to criticise in it. We commend it to both those who buy many and those who are content with few books, for it is suited to all who wish a dependable guide in rational practise.-A.L.R.

"Being Done Good." By Edward B. Lent. Illustrated edition. Publisht by the Brooklyn Eagle Press, Brooklyn, N. Y. 12mo. $1.50.

The approval with which Mr. Edward B. Lent's book, "Being Done Good," has been received, has led to the publication of an illustrated edition, where the artist has given his interpretation of some of the witty and clever satires which the author has launcht at the practisers of the healing art. Mr. Lent set forth his experiences in the effort made to secure a cure for an obstinate and peculiarly manevolent brand of rheumatism, and his exposition of the methods practised by the various varieties of healers whom he consulted was so inexpressibly funny that the reading world laughed from one end of the country to the other. Mr. Lent did not denounce the practicians; he simply told what they did to him, and told it in such a fashion that even the healers themselves had to laugh. The book showed that Mr. Lent is a humorist of rare discernment and quality. Not every man has the philosophy to see the humorous side of his own suffering. That the story was well told is establisht by the welcome which the book has received in all quarters. It is unique in character and quality. The fun of the pictures is just as crisp, as pungent, and as void of offense as the text. Since Being Done Good" was first publisht, Mr. Lent has tried another "cure." He has gone to Arizona to test the effects of the superlativly dry atmosphere of that arid region upon his malady.

Hygiene and Public Health. By B. Arthur Whitelegge, C.B., M.D., B.Sc., Lond., F.R.P.C., D.P.H., and George Newman, M.D., D.P.H., FR.S.E. New edition, revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten. Illustrated. Publisht by W. T. Keener & Co., Chicago, Ill. Price $1.75.

In student's manual style, of convenient pocket size, yet containing 620 pages and a complete index. It gives a concise summary of the position of the English health

officer's duties before the law, and of the best methods of employing the known principles of preventiv medicin. There is much material incorporated that does not concern the American physician, and which might well have been omitted in an issue intended for sale in this country.-A. L. R.

Rest, Mental Therapeutics, Suggestion. By Francis X. Dercum, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Neurologist to the Philadelphia Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Asylum for the Chronic Insane at Wernersville; Consulting Neurologist to the St. Agnes Hospital; Consulting Neurologist to the Jewish Hospital, etc. This is Vol. VIII of a System of Physiologic Therapeutics edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, A.M., M.D., publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price not stated.

Contains 318 pages and an index. It touches on hypnotism, faith cure, Eddyism, clairvoyance, and telepathy. The hypnotic methods are described in full. The methods of treatment employed in addiction to morphin, cocain, and alcohol are helpful to any interested in this line of work. Melancholia, hysteria, and hypochondria come in for full consideration. The methods advocated would be more extensivly employed if they were but better understood, and this book is a safe guide to a more complete knowledge of these important adjuvants to treatment.-A. L. R.

Coakley's Laryngology. A Manual of Diseases of the Nose and Throat. By Cornelius G. Coakley, A.M., M.D., Professor of Laryngology in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Laryngologist to Columbus Hospital, etc., New York. New (3d) edition, revised and enlarged. In one 12mo. volume of 594 pages, with 118 engravings and 5 colored plates. Cloth, $2.75 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1905.

As an introduction to rhinology it is probable that there is no book in the English language that so richly will repay the labor of reading with a clear, accurate, and not unduly superficial knowledge of that subject. It is especially well adapted for students and general practicians who have neither the time nor the inclination for the larger volumes of Bosworth, Kyle, or Browne.

The third edition has been enriched by new illustrations, some of them in colors. Additions to the text and some important changes have been made, bringing the third edition entirely up to date.-E. B. G.

The New Knowledge. A popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. By Robert Kennedy Duncan, Professor of Chemistry in Washington and Jefferson College. Illustrated. Publisht by A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, N. Y. Price, $2.

Contains 257 pages and an index. The subjects considered are intensely interesting to all physicians, dealing as the author does with the query as to the "why of electricity, radio-activity, Becquerel-rays, atoms, corpuscles, ions, etc. Written as a popular book, information is here collected that could only otherwise be obtained by laborious search and extended reading, even by professional men. The language is neither stilted nor pedantic, the author presuming only a high school education as a basis of power to follow him thru all his reasonings and arguments. The book opens new fields of thought, and compels many of us to forget many things we learned so laboriously. Professor Duncan is a clear, logical, and convincing writer, and his book is entertaining and instructiv. We advise its purchase by all who wish to keep well informed on the rapid progress of the sciences.-A. L. R.

Materia Medica and Clinical Therapeutics. By F. J. Petersen, M.D. Publisht by the author. Los Olivos, Cal. Price, $3.

Contains 392 pages and an index. The book is an ingenious attempt to combine those features of eclecticism and homeopathy which the author considers good. Himself an eclectic, he incorporates a consideration of rational, eclectic, and homeopathic drugs with a fairness none can dispute. There is much information embodied in the work only obtainable by a perusal of the best books of the leading schools.

Drugs are declared to have a primary and a secondary action, some being of value in the primary action only, others in the secondary effect alone, and yet others have power in both the primary and secondary effects. The work is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the eclectic side of the therapeutics, and the second with the homeopathic viewpoint. It is interesting, and will add to the practical value of any library, beside giving an insight into the practises of the sects mentioned, which is of positiv value to any live physician.—A. L. R.

Manual of Pathology; including Bacteriology, the Technic of Postmortems, and Methods of Pathologic Research. By W. M. Late Coplin, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, Jefferson Medical College; Pathologist to the Friend's Asylum for the Insane, Frankford. Fourth edition, re-written and enlarged. With 495 illustrations, many of which are original, and to colored plates. Publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1905. Price, $4.

Contains 948 pages of text and a complete index. Quite a number of original drawings have been incorporated in this issue, and a number of old illustrations have been replaced by better ones; in fact, nearly all of the 145 new illustrations are original. In the colored plates, those portraying the parasitology of malaria and the blood changes in leukemia are most notable. Much new text is on postmortems, and brief summaries on urinary and sputum examination appear in the appendix. Blood examination has due space; in fact, wherever it is advisable to describe the technic of any procedure, it is given in detail. Poisons, as related to disease production, the recent theories on intoxication, and cytolytic processes are considered at length. Numerous references are given to aid those who wish to read up on any subject. As the work now stands, it is truly “useful in the laboratory, postmortem room, and in clinical diagnosis by the aid of the microscope.”—A. L. R.

Berg's Surgical Diagnosis. A Manual of Surgical Diagnosis. For students and practicians. By Albert A. Berg, M.D., Adjunct Attending Surgeon to Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York. In one 12mo volume of 543 pages with 215 engravings and 21 full page plates. Cloth, $3.25 net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

This is a terse, complete, and precise manual along lines upon which the average practician is weak. It is one of the few books really suited to the student, surgeon, and general practician; the intuition and experience of the author having taught him the needs of the average members of the profession in a manner in which few writers have interpreted them. Special stress is laid upon the early diagnosis of tuberculosis of the ends of the bones; the diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys from the appearance of the ureteral orifices; and the broadened field of surgery upon the internal organs made possible thru recent advances in technic. He is careful to differentiate the disease in question from other diseases which might prove confusing in diagnosis. Thru the principles he outlines, it is now possible to diagnose in their incipiency most of the diseases which are strictly surgical. His plan is to first give a complete clinical picture of the disease, and then to follow with details as to cause, onset, and course.-A. L. R.

LeFevre's Diagnosis. A Manual of Physical Diagnosis, including Diseases of the Thoracic and Abdominal Organs. For students and physicians. By Egbert LeFevre, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicin and Therapeutics in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Attending Physician to Bellevue Hospital and to St. Luke's Hospital, New York. New (second) edition, thoroly revised and much enlarged. In one 12mo volume of 479 pages with 102 engravings and 6 full page plates in black and colors. Cloth, $2 25 net, Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

This little work is sufficient for all the ordinary purposes of every day practise. It is particularly strong just where the majority of such books are weak; notably in its exposition of heart lesions. The methods detailed are the writer's own, and most clinicians can learn something here which will improve their own system. The revision has been thoro,

and we can conscientiously repeat the commendation accorded the book on its first appearance. The changes in the chapter on topographical and relational anatomy are an improvement, and the X-ray illustrations of cardiac outlines are not excelled in graphic teaching power. The practician who has rusted, yet will not wade thru a large modern work, needs just such a book, and this will not prove disappointing.A. L. R.

Simon's Manual of Chemistry. A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners in Chemistry. A text-book especially adapted for students of medicin, pharmacy, and dentistry. By William Simon, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, and in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, etc. New (eighth) edition, thoroly revised to conform with the eighth decennial revision of the United States Pharmacopeia. In one octavo volume of 643 pages, with 66 engravings, 8 colored plates representing 64 important chemical reactions, and 1 colored spectra plate Cloth, $3 net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1905.

Much of the matter on organic chemistry has beer re-written and re-arranged, and the valuable color plates have been amplified by including the tints noted in volumetric analysis and in examination of the gastric juice. The book, as before, is divided into seven parts, and in each the effort is made to keep prominent only such matters as intimately concern the student of medicin, pharmacy, or dentistry. Electrolysis and the ionic theory are briefly consid ered. While the periodic law is admitted to be an admirable basis, it has not been strictly followed, and the old classification of metals and non-metals, organic and inorganic, is retained. In consideration of organic chemistry, only sufficient matter is given to instill the principles of carbon compounds, and of the bodies most important in medicin.-A. L. R.

A System of Physiologic Therapeutics. Edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, A.M., M.D. Volume VII, Mechanotherapy and Physical Education, including Massage and Treatment. By John K. Mitchell, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Physician to the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; Assistant Neurologist to the Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia, etc., and Physical Education by Muscular Exercise. By Luther Halsey Gulick, M.D., Director of Physical Training in the Public Schools of Greater New York; President of American Physical Education Association, etc. With 229 illustrations, Publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1904. Price not stated.

Contains 394 pages, with an index. This book is one of the most practical of the series. It gives all the information on mechano-therapy needed by any practician to enable him to treat patients scientifically. Osteopathy is disposed of in little over a page, and is declared to be nothing more than massage. The Schott system is fully explained and illustrated. Each disease in which mechanotherapy is indicated is taken up in detail and every motion and appliance minutely explained. In the Addenda, Orthopedic apparatus, Correctiv manipulations, and Physical Methods used in Ophthalmic Therapeutics are taken up seriatim. Every well equipt physician needs this book in his every day work, but we fear few in general practise will profit from it. We commend it to all.-A.L.R.

Carbonic Acid in Medicin. By Achilles Rose, M.D. With the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley, and Lavoisier. Publisht by Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York and London, 1905. Price, $1.

A neat 12m0 of 259 pages. It is most interesting in its suggestions of new methods of treatment for common and annoying conditions. The author does not claim discovery, but merely recalls forgotten methods of successful treatment by means of this agent. He reports a few cases under each suggestion, and he candidly mentions failures as well as successes. He asserts that the method is devoid of danger or after effect. He suggests the employment of the gas in sexual neurasthenia and frigidity; in cases of rigid os in accouchement; in asthma; in rectal fistula; in rhinitis; in whooping cough; dysentery; and in chlorosis. The apparatus in not expensiv, or may be

improvised, and the drugs may be found anywhere. The author is so sanguin that the reader resolves to test the method on the next available case, and the directions are such that there is no possibility of failure to proceed rightly.-A. L. R.

Progressiv Medicin, Vol. III, September, 1905. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia. Octavo, 298 pages, with 22 engravings. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $9.00; in paper binding, $6.00, carriage paid to any address. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

Materia Medica and Pharmacy. By Reynold Webb Wilcox, M.A., M.D. LL. D., Professor of Medicin at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and Attending Physician to the Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Nassau Hospital; Visiting Physician to the St. Mark's Hospital; ex-President of the American Therapeutic Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Medicin; Vice-Chairman of the Revision Committee of the United States Pharmacopeia, etc. Sixth edition, based on the fifth edition of White and Wilcox's "Materia Medica and Therapeutics." Publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co, 1.12 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price, $2.50.

This book, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, is the first of two volumes intended as companions. The next, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, is promist soon. The author has striven to produce a complete and concise guide along the best modern line of teaching, which would appeal to both teachers and students of medicin and pharmacy. His position on the revision board has permitted the work to harmonize exactly with the new authority. It contains 598 pages and an index. We are not able to discover any omissions, and it gives the material which the busy practician finds indispensable, and gives it without "padding" and without fruitless discussion of mooted points or mere theories. It will serve as a supplement to older materia medicas, and will satisfy the need of all want essentials devoid of frills."-A. L. R.

Manual of Operativ surgery. By John Fairbairn Binnie, A.M., C.M. (Aberdeen), Professor of Surgery, Kansas State University; Fellow of the American Surgical Association; Membre de la Societe Internationale de Chirurgie. Second edition, revised and enlarged. With 567 illustrations, a number of which are printed in colors. Publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price, $3.00.

This issue contains 622 pages and an index. It is handsomely bound in full flexible morocco, with gold edges, and is a tastefully executed example of mechanical skill. The first edition was exhausted in six months; this edition has been revised, pruned, and elaborated, until in its present form it is the peer of any small work on surgery. Short articles on the duodenum and on tuberculous peritonitis have been inserted, and the author describes his individual method of operation on the mastoid. It is well suited to the student; likewise to the practician who wishes a convenient small book of reference or for the purpose of keeping his library up to date; and for such purposes it has our highest approval.-A. L. R.

Taylor on Sexual Disorders. A Practical Treatise on Sexual Disorders in the Male and Female. By Robert W. Taylor, A.M., M.D., Clinical Professor of Genito-Urinary and Venereal Diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York. New (third) edition, enlarged and thoroly revised. In one octavo volume of 575 pages, with 130 engravings and 16 colored plates. Cloth, $3.00, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1905.

Three editions have been demanded in five years, and this issue is amplified and improved by valuable illustrations. Considerable detail is devoted to each variety of these affections, and numerous case reports are included. Both the medical and the surgical aspect of each affection is thoroly discust. The parts referring to the affections of the female along these lines are enlarged and improved, and four new chapters are added on this alone. Both specialist and general practician will find matter here which intimately concerns his daily work, but which he cannot obtain elsewhere in English. It is trustworthy and practical

along currents where inexperienced practicians often feel themselves wide out at sea.-A. L. R.

The Microtomist's Vade Mecum. A hand-book of the methods of microscopic anatomy. By Arthur Bolles Lee. Sixth edition. Publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa., 1905. Price, $4 net.

Contains 503 pages and an index. It has much new matter, over 300 new entries being noted in the index. Some chapters have been eliminated and their substance incorporated in other chapters in a manner that affords a more connected view of the subject. The recent methods of handling neuroglia are given in detail. Chapter 32 is practically a new section, so great has been the revision. The book in its present form is true to its title, and will be much appreciated by all microscopists.-A. L. R.

Manual of Diseases of the Eye, for students and general practicians. By Charles H. May, M.D., Chief of Clinic and Instructor in Ophthalmology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department, Columbia University, New York, 1890-1993; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the City Hospitals, Randall's Island, New York; Consulting Ophthalmologist to the French Hospital and to the Red Cross Hospitals, New York; Adjunct Ophthalmic Surgeon to Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, etc. Fourth edition, revised. With 360 original ilustrations, including 21 plates, with 60 colored figures. Publisht by William Wood & Co.. New York, N. Y. Price, $2 00, net.

Contains 376 pages and an index. This book has had flattering success, four editions being demanded since late in 1900, while of the third edition two reprints were made. Many of the old illustrations have been replaced by better ones, and the text is considerably amplified. Eight colored plates have been added, yet the manual has been kept at its original size and price. The plates are the best we have ever seen, and we do not except the more pretentious works. It is an ideal little book for the purpose, and will fill all the wants of most general practicians.A. L. R.

Text-Book of Materia Medica for Nurses. Compiled by Lavinia L. Dock, graduate of Bellevue Training School for Nurses. Fourth edition revised and enlarged. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1905. Sold by John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Penna. Price $1.50.

The author knows the difficulties encountered by the nurse who seeks to know something of drugs, and yet has only books intended for the medical profession from which to study. She has given nurses a book of great practical value, and one which can be depended upon implicitly to not only teach things every nurse should know, but also to omit things which the nurse has no occasion to worry over. This edition is brought into conformity with the new pharmacopeia, and contains symptoms of poisons and their antidotes, articles on organo and serum therapy, hypodermic administration of drugs, emetics, and a list of the better known mineral waters. We commend the book to every nurse desiring to increase her efficiency by proper knowledge. No attempt is made to teach therapeutics.-A. L. R.

Gray's Anatomy. Descriptiv and Surgical, New American from the 15th English edition. Revised, enlarged and rewritten by J. Chalmers DaCosta, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College, in collaboration with a corps of specially selected assistants. In one very handsome imperial octavo volume of 1600 pages, with 1132 illustrations, 500 of which are new in this edition. Price, with illustrations in black: Cloth, $5.50 net; leather, $6.50 net. Price, with illustrations in black and many colors: Cloth, $6.00 net; leather, $7.00 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1905.

Gray's Anatomy has been for 50 years the best known medical work. As the knowledge of anatomy is perpetually advancing, and as the sales of this work are so large, frequent opportunity has been accorded for revision, but this issue, by DaCosta, is the superior of any that has yet appeared. Anatomist, surgeon, and teacher, he knows the requirements of both student and practician, and he meets them fully. Every page has been revised, and whole sections have been entirely rewritten, notably the sections on the brain, spinal cord, nervous system, abdomen, and

/lymphatics. The cuts are large and clear, and the names of the parts are engraved directly upon them; colors have been more freely used, and the present work is thus an unsurpast dissecting companion. In the present form, this book represents all that can be demanded of an anatomy.-A. L. R.

The Strange Story of the Quillmores. By A. L. Cathterton. Octavo volume of 272 pages; illustrated. Publisht by Stitt Publishing Company, New York. Price $1.50.

An interesting story of Indiana life in the early 80's. The plot is ingenious and logically developt, holding the interest of the reader until the end. The characters, particularly those of "Doc Gus," the village physician, and "Uncle I," the village storekeeper, are well drawn, without being exaggerated and caricatured, as is so often the case in books of this class.

OUR MONTHLY TALK.

The insurance presidents thought they were conducting a "private business;" hence they conducted it in their own way, and doubtless they thought it was nobody's business but their own. The past few months have brought about a great change concerning such conceptions. The past few months have been very hard on the presidents of insurance companies. Most of the prominent ones have resigned under a cloud, with suits for claims against them, and one has died, evidently as a result, either directly or indirectly, of exposure. “High financiers" and high salaried officers of insurance companies are now convinced that the insurance business is not as "private" as they thought it was. The officers thought they had a "right" to contribute to campaign funds, buy legislation, indulge in speculation, etc., all with the policyholder's money, and that these things were all private matters with said officers. Recent events have convinced them of their error. They gave Senator Chauncey Depew a "retainer" salary of $20,000 per year for being "a jolly good fellow." The genial Chauncey is not so jolly now. Not because of the loss of the twenty thousand, but he feels the exposure keenly. As long as the arrangement was not known, and treated as a "private matter," his clever wit flowed to the delight of everybody; but he is now sadly convinced that it was not a "private matter."

The famous Vanderbilt expression, "the public be damned," don't "go" as well as it did when that sentiment was first exprest. The public has been awakening to its rights; and as it continues to do so, there will be many other changes of conception as to what things are really "private." In the palmy days of Tammany, with John Kelly or Richard Croker at its head, the government of New York City was a "private snap." Things are different now. Even here in Philadelphia, our "Peerless Leader" of "The Gang" learned a few months ago that he no longer carries the spoils of office in Philadelphia in his pocket as a private sinecure. Even his own office (he was State Insurance Commissioner) has been taken away from him. It was a fat office, with no duties, as all the work was done by the deputy, and the Commissioner was away from the office months at a time-in fact, nearly all the time. snap" any longer.

But it is not his "private
When the "Pennsylvania

Dutch" and the Quakers wake up, it is time for the whole country to wake up.

Congress is concluding, tho late about it, that railroading is not entirely a private business; and that railroads are not entirely private property. Sometime the people will learn that the express business is not a private business. Then a president of an express company will not sit in the United States Senate; and Congress will not be made up largely of attorneys for express companies, railroads and other corporations. All the rest of the civilized world has concluded that the transmission of intelligence by wire is a public function rather than a private one. When we wake up to this fact we will have a government telegraph as a part of our postal system.

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I will make the "Talk" short this month, leaving only this one thought with you: that public interests and public rights are rapidly expanding, while private "rights" are becoming progressivly narrower; not that public rights are really becoming larger, but we are coming to a larger recognition of public rights.

If the Pure Food Bill now before Congress becomes a law, many manufacturers of adulterated and otherwise sophisticated foods, drinks and drugs will discover that such business is not a private business, to be conducted as each private manufacturer may wish, but that the public has a right of supervision and control. That right is inherent, for the health of the people is a most vital public concern. When the law is passed, this inherent right will have formal recognition, with machinery to inforce it.

This right should be extended to restriction of harmful nostrums, which now go to the general public without restriction; and it will be so extended sometime. The makers and vendors of these nostrums now consider their business a "private matter," for their own profit. A larger and more just view for the general good will prevail sometime. Indeed, the supposed private right of individuals to take stuff that will injure health or morals will sometime be seriously called in question, on the theory of what is an injury to an individual is an injury to the community. Even now there is a law against suicide in some States, and unsuccessful self-destroyers are punisht under this law. Let us live for our community, our State and Nation, rather than for ourselves.

There are still some delinquents, some of which will receive bills this month. Can you not better enjoy literature when it is paid for than when you have to be reminded every few months that you owe the paltry sum of its price? How do you feel when you have to send bills time after time to your patrons? And let me ask you this: Aren't your little bills more trouble than the big ones? Our bills against subscribers are all little ones, and we appreciate what a bother little bills are. You can prevent all this by remitting. Kindly do so. Please keep the matter before your mind until you do it.