stories of recent date.

It is the gospel of good food, with the added influence of fresh air,
sunlight, cleanliness, and physical exercise that occupy profitably
the attention of Helen Campbell. Martha is a baby when the story
begins, and a child not yet in her teens when the narrative comes to
an end, but she has a salutary power over many lives. Her father is a
wise country physician, who makes his chaise, in his daily progress
about the hills, serve as his little daughter's cradle and
kindergarten. When she gets old enough to understand he expounds to
her his views of the sins committed against hygiene, and his lessons
sink into an appreciative mind. When he encounters particularly hard
cases she applies his principles with unfailing logic, and is able to
suggest helpful means of cure. The old doctor is delightfully
sagacious in demonstrating how the confirmed pie-eater marries the tea
inebriate, with the result in doughnut-devouring, dyspeptic, and
consumptive offspring. "What did they die of?" asked little Martha, in
the village graveyard; and her father answers solemnly,
"Intemperance." So Martha declares that she will be a "food doctor,"
and later on she helps her father in saving several victims of strong
drink. The book is one that should find hosts of earnest readers, for
its admonitions are sadly needed, not in the country alone, but in the
city, where, if better ideas of diet prevail, people have yet as a
rule a long way to go before they attain the path of wisdom. Meanwhile
it remains true, as Mrs. Campbell makes Dr Scarborough declare, that
the cabbage soup and black bread of the poorest French peasants are
really better suited to the sustenance of healthy life than the
"messes" that pass for food in many parts of rural New England.--_The
Beacon._

_Sold by all Booksellers. Mailed, post-paid, on receipt of price, by the
Publishers_,

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, BOSTON.

ROGER BERKELEY'S PROBATION.

A Story.

BY HELEN CAMPBELL,

_Author of "Prisoners of Poverty," "Mrs. Herndon's Income," "Miss
Melinda's Opportunity," "The What-to-do Club," etc._

16mo, cloth, price, $1.00; paper, 50 cents.

This story is on the scale of a cabinet picture. It presents
interesting figures, natural situations, and warm colors. Written in a
quiet key, it is yet moving, and the letter from Bo