Physical Deterioration, its Causes and the Cure Les Exercises physiques et le Développement intellectuel

Abstract

MRS. WATT SMYTH'S book performs good service in directing the attention of that larger public who imagine Blue-books to be dull, and who avoid the study of health reports, to the national health. Those great weaknesses and injuries that beset the infant citizen have hitherto caused quite insufficient concern. Most of the drawbacks to healthy living here set out were proclaimed by the International Congress of Hygiene in 1891; so slow has been the progress in remedying them that we must hope these chapters will be more widely read than those transactions have been. Evidently many good sources of evidence have been carefully searched; even the sociologist may seek here for references, and while the frequent change of theme has necessitated brevity, the most salient facts and features receive due prominence.

Physical Deterioration, its Causes and the Cure.

By A. Watt Smyth. Pp. xv + 318. (London: John Murray, 1904.) Price 6s. net.

Les Exercises physiques et le Développement intellectuel.

By Angelo Mosso. Pp. 294. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1904.) Price 6 francs.