whom his fellows have
thought worthy to preside over their deliberations, a physician whom
his brethren have honored with their highest office, though no man
among them ever assailed the pleasing and profitable delusions of
his craft so sharply,--he may well be listened to, even though he
has given his life to the subject on which he writes.

As this little book is neither (to speak in pharmaceutic phrase) the
water, nor the spirit, but the very _essential oil_, of the author's
thoughts on the matters of which he treats, it is only by a
destructive analysis we can resolve it into its elements. We shall
only touch upon its contents, and recommend the book itself to all
who have ever known sickness, or expect ever to know it, or to have
a friend liable to it.

"The Paradise of Doctors" is a pleasant bait to those wary readers
who will bite at the bare hook of quackery, but must be tempted
before they will venture into a book of medicine which has not lying
as its staple material.

Then comes a consideration of the five methods of treating
disease now most prevalent in civilized countries; namely,
1. The Artificial.
2. The Expectant.
3. The Homoeopathic.
4. The Exclusive.
5. The Rational.

Perfect candor, perfect clearness, the good-nature of a successful
man above all petty jealousies, the style of a scholar who has
hardly an equal among us in his profession and few equals out of it,
the honesty which belongs to science, and the acuteness which is
conferred by practice mark this brief essay. It follows in the same
course of thought as the admirable "Discourse on Self-limited
Diseases," the delivery of which many years ago marked the
commencement of a new epoch in the movement of the medical mind
among us. An hour's reading given to this new lesson of wisdom will
turn many a self-willed, proud-hearted medical skeptic into a humble
and consistent patient of the regular profession.

_Thoughts on Matter and Force: or Marvels that encompass us_:
comprising Suggestions illustrative of the Theory of the Universe.
By THOMAS EWBANK. New York: D. Appleton & Co. London: Truebner & Co.
1858.

The human longing for the Infinite is as strong now as it was when
the first _ology_, aiming to grasp it, conceived its first myth, and
comprehended something so far below what humanity itself now is or
knows, that we use it, along with the more recent productions of
Mrs. Goose, to amuse children. This persistent trait