Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie

outline of the events which make this volume so well worthy of perusal. Brodie's character as a man deserves very careful study; and the insight which the book gives us into the condition of the profession and the state of society at the time when he lived is by no means its least instructive part. Brodie had many interests outside his profession, and his views on various questions of psychology are given by Mr. Holmes. Perhaps the keynote of Brodie's life and work may be found in his statement that "there is no greater happiness in life than that of surmounting difficulties; and nothing will conduce more than this to improve your intellectual faculties, or to make you satisfied with the situation which you have attained in life, whatever it may be." The book will therefore interest the general reader. The frontispiece is a very beautiful reproduction of a photograph of the portrait of Brodie, painted by Watts in i860. The photograph was taken by his grandson, the present Sir Benjamin Brodie, to whom the reader is also indebted for much of the