Dietetics.*

and here we find a review of an American translation of a German treatise on " Fruit and Bread , a Scientific Diet . " From this somewhat remarkable paper , we can gather no more distinct idea of the Reviewer ' s meaning , than we imagine be himself had when he wrote it . As far as we can judge , it seems simjily intended to refute the logical outcome of the Vegetarian Society's own programme—eating the cucumber to the-bitter end .

The Gorman—Professor , we presume , for that covers everything—advocates , as far as we can make out , that the proper food of man is raw fruit and corn without any preparation , because Darwin has proved (!) that man has descended from the Ape , and this is the normal food of the Gorilla . The Reviewer falls foul of his German friend here , wishing to go no further than John Smith ( whom we don't know , although we seem to have heard sonio such name before ) who , recognizing that our digestive organs are similar to those of the Ape , drew the conclusion that they are therefore not normally constructed to digest flesh . We can only say of these

belligerents" Strange what a difference there should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee . " The Reviewer charges his German friend with atheism , because be does not explicitly disavow it . This is hardly fair ; nor should we be more unfair if we were to accuse tho Eeviewer himself , together with all his fellow members of the Society , root and branch , of Infidelityin that they distinctly ignore all Biblical teaching upon the subject of food .

, When , further , Soap is objected to , we can form a tolerably correct idea of the personnel of your Vegetarian—" pure , " we can hardly say in the face of this objection , biit" simple , " we , can most heartily endorse . Upon the " Annual Report , " we need not dwell further than to say that a slight mistake into which we were led earlier by the list of contributions , is here corrected , for we find that the " jireviously announced " already referred tomeantthough it did

, , not say , during the present financial year ; it is not , however , of sufficient importance to lead us to modify our remarks . One point certainly strikes us as somewhat droll , and that is the idea of social " intercourse " in connexion with this " bond of brotherhood of constantly increasing depth and intensity . " Just fancy the " social" feeling

engendered by a " banquet" ( sic ) of , we suppose , a turnip and a flagon from the pump . "The Correspondence" is slightly amusing here and there , One Vegetarian of sixtyfive years old , attributes Ms ( or her ) 'till lately , fast decaying teeth to flesh-eating—We have heard of a tobacco-smoker dying at one hundred and two from the use of the weed . " T . H . E . " need hardly impress upon us that he is an extreme —( What ?) when he

includes iu his " taM " both tea and coffee as hot and poisonous drugs . Amongst " Local News " there is one startling discovery announced , claimed by the feat Horton Primitive Methodists , that the restlessness of Sunday-School Children is occasioned by the " feasting usually gone through on Sundays . " May we ask if the antici pation of feasting acts in the same way as its realization 1 If not , how account for the restlessness observable in the morning quite as much as the afternoon . " Oh !

t ° r the holy , quiet , and soothing cahn of pumpkins and potatoes 1 We most not close our notice without a word for the Poetry (!) . There is a piece entitled , " Leave the poor Songsters alone . " We , as a rule , find any of the precaution ° ftlie kind unnecessary ; they generally leave us , and that rather hurriedly . One stanza of this beautiful poem will commend itself to

those—Sweet maidens so gentle and kind , t ° whom it is addressed ; it rims thus : — " A plume in your hat never wear , N or with feathers your bonnet disgrace , For beings so gentle and fail-Should give no such custom a place . "