Dr Blaisdell's physiologies have been tested for many years in thousands of schools throughout the land with the result that they have long since gained the complete confidence of the school world. The recent revisions of these books have made possible many improvements in text, in arrangement, in illustrations, in binding; in short these standard texts are more adequate than ever before and are fully adapted to the requirements of modern ideals and methods of teaching the subject. RECENTLY PUBLISHED CHILD'S BOOK OF HEALTH. REVISED EDITION This revision of one of the simplest books on the subject shows in an interesting and practical way the relation between the great laws of science and the details of our daily life. The author believes that the real object in teaching physiology in the lower grades of schools is to help young people to keep well and strong. Special emphasis, therefore, has been laid upon all such points as pertain to the care of the health. 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Remember that under the special "State Journal Club" offer, 5 teachers, or others, (if list is strictly new) may be furnished this invaluable help one year for only $2.00. Early subscribers get the September number with course of study for year. Sample Copy on request. SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL, "LEARN THE RICH BEAUTY OF HELPING A CHILD." N No. I "He who helps a child helps humanity with a distinctness which no other help given to human creatures in any other stage of their human life can possibly give again. He who puts his blessed influence into a river blesses the land through which that river is to flow; but he who puts his influence into the fountain where the river comes out puts his influence everywhere. No land it may not reach. No ocean it may not make sweeter. No bark it may not bear. No wheel it may not turn. "Sometimes we get at things best by their contraries. Learn the rich beauty of helping a child by the awfulness of hurting a child,-hurting a child even in his physical frame-hurting him still more in soul and mind. The thing that made the Divine Master indignant as he stood there in Jerusalem was that He dreamed of seeing before Him a man who had harmed some of these little ones, and He said of any such ruffian, 'It were better for him that he had never been born.' "If it is such an awful thing to hurt a child's life, to aid a child's life is beautiful." -Phillips Brooks. MUSCULAR POWER AND ALCOHOL BY DR. JOHANNES BRESLER 'KRASCHNITZ. Honorary Member of the Medico-Psychological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Foreign Member of the Medico-Psychological Society of Paris T is superfluous nowadays to point out and portray the injurious consequences that excessive indulgence in spirituous liquors entails upon the health, morality, and welfare of the individual as well as of the community. For no one doubts any longer the existence of a so-called alcohol peril and alcohol curse, now that from so many quarters measures for the restriction of this evil have been brought and are being brought upon the stage. I use the expression "brought upon the stage" intentionally, for most of these measures are nothing but a scenic representation of a fight against alcohol, a kind of manoeuvre carried on with various ends in view, against the enemy that is not really regarded as such at all, but is usually, indeed, considered as our indispensable friend and companion. "Moderate use of spirituous liquors not only is not injurious, but is even beneficial, "-this is the current creed as regards alcohol. THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCIENCE As in regard to a belief in other fallacies not less pernicious, so in regard to the belief in alcohol, we can press forward victoriously only by means of the weapon of science, the weapon of exact investigation. Her war cry, her watchword, "Nothing taken for granted," has never failed to awaken the sleepers from their credu lous stupor and summon them to the field of battle. It is often said that the example of abstinence is the best means for combating the alcohol evil of our times-over against the millions of examples of the temperate or intemperate use of alcohol! Scientific doctrine concerning alcohol must become the common property of all, must convince the minds of men. And after some decades of painstaking investigation, scholars, in particular physiologists and psychologists, have, thanks to exact methods, arrived at the positive, irrefutable conclusion that alcohol, whether taken in larger or smaller quantities, is poisonous to the body. This pronouncement has or will attain the same importance for civilization, as for example, the discovery that micro-organisms are the cause of epidemic diseases. Practically, indeed, the former is comparatively more important, for in spite of the latter discovery we are still comparatively powerless in the presence of epidemic diseases, whereas with alcoholic poisoning this is not the case. Accordingly, it is not our purpose in what follows to hold an inquest over the victims that alcohol claims, nor to conduct the reader through penitentiaries, institutions for the insane, the epileptic, and the feeble-minded, and asylums for inebriates, nor yet to perform a de |