Heredity, Health, and Personal Beauty

on " The Evolution of the American Girl" ! We have read the book from beginning to end with astonishment, almost with awe. It is brimful of noble sentiments and elevating advice; it bristles with figures of speech, and is not devoid of distinct efforts at logical reasoning. But somehow we cannot help smiling as we read; for bathos jumbles pathos, the ridiculous ousts the sublime, the culture of the schoolboy handles the thoughts of the sage or the historian, and through the whole peeps the clinical insight of the skin doctor. It is, in fact, a sort of apotheosis of the somewhat unsavoury subject of Diseases of the Skin.