Lessons in Massage

The hook consists of general and special instructions on massage, and of information on anatomy and physiology. Regarding the latter the authoress states in the preface to the first edition that she has " culled from the standard works what is indispensable for the pupil masseuse to stud}7, that she may have under one cover sufficient information on those subjects to enable her to learn her work intelligently without burdening her memoiy with unnecessary details." The amount of information on these last subjects occupies more than half the bulk of the book, and in our opinion is to a great extent unnecessary for the masseuse. We can for example, see no useful object in inflicting on the unfortunate pupil tables giving the? name position, origin, insertion, action, and nervesupply of nearly every muscle in the body ? nor, to give a particularly useless instance of expecting her to know the relations of'the oesophagus inside the thorax. Even so tho information given is not always correct Probably the most glaring example we have noticed is the statement that " in flexion of the knee the posterior ligament tightens in extetT sion the anterior tightens." Where the authoress treats of her own subject matters are different The descriptions are nearly always clear and helped out by good pictures. The only Actual mistake noted in the instructions is 'that the