nd neck that bore unmoved the exposure of her knees, were now "crimson
with a delicious shame." This incident "bared each to each in all the
nudity of passion," and it certainly bares the nudity of the author's
invention. He is nowhere prurient, and nowhere delicate. He describes
the revolting details of the story with as much unction as if they were
the important things, and he leaves his hero at the end a complete
failure in life and love, wasted in strength, and ruined in mind.

[12] "_The Shadow of the Sword._" A Romance. By ROBERT BUCHANAN.
New York: Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Co.

* * * * *

WE are glad to see Dr. McClellan persist in his study of the cholera
question.[13] We know of no publications which are better fitted than
his to awaken the people to a proper sense of the duty, and also of the
efficiency, of personal providence against disease. He is an advocate
of the Indian origin theory of the disease and its spread by personal
infection only, and in this pamphlet maintains two propositions: 1st,
that Asiatic cholera has never yet _originated on the American
continent_, but in every instance has spread from a first case which
reached its shores from some countries beyond the ocean; and 2d, that
it is diffused by the migrations of individuals who are infected by the
disease, a specific poison existing in their dejecta, which reproduces
the disease in any person to whom it gains access. This is a theory of
epidemic cholera which is rational, consistent with the constantly
developing facts of scientific research, and which happily includes a
remedy that is every way practicable and thorough. But it is a theory
that is not yet acknowledged by all authorities. Telluric conditions,
malaria, and other local influences are frequently pointed to as the
cause of the disease, and the doctrine of specific cholera poison still
demands strong partisan advocacy.

[13] "_Lessons to be Learned from the Cholera Facts of the Past
Year._" By ELY MCCLELLAN, M.D., Surgeon U.S.A. Reprinted from the
"Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal."

--An anonymous pamphlet on vivisection, which takes ground against that
mode of obtaining knowledge, is not worth serious notice except for the
odd argument that crime is likely to increase if the vivisectionists
are allowed to experiment on cats and dogs, as the new English law
proposes! Criminals, says the authoress, ra