Book Reviews

When we say that the Medical Report which is given as an appendix to this blue-book is by Dr M'William, it is unnecessary to add that it is a very good report, and that it may be safely recommended to the attention of any one among our readers who may take an interest in the Waterguard and Waterside officers of Her Majesty's Customs?a class in which we cannot, for ourselves, acknowledge a very lively interest?or who may be possessed with the idea that much result of any sort, except a very fallacious and unsatisfying one, is to be derived from statistical tables which refer to a body limited in numbers, and which scarcely enter into a description of individual " disturbing causes,"?an idea which, we are free to con-