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The narrative follows Edward Rossel, a wealthy city dweller who acquires a modest lakeside villa once owned by a landscape painter and brings urban comforts into a pastoral setting. Scenes in the studio, park, and household stage encounters that contrast sentimental nature-worship with cultivated domestic pleasure and the demands of artistic labor. Through social visits, debates, and quiet observation, the work examines attitudes toward beauty, idleness, and the role of art, while interpersonal tensions among guests gradually complicate the tranquil summer retreat.




HEALTH PRIMERS.

EDITED BY

J. LANGDON DOWN, M. D., F. R. C. P.
HENRY POWER, M. B., F. R. C. S.
J. MORTIMER-GRANVILLE, M. D.
JOHN TWEEDY, F. R. C. S.

Though it is of the greatest importance that books upon health should be in the highest degree trustworthy, it is notorious that most of the cheap and popular kind are mere crude compilations of incompetent persons, and are often misleading and injurious. Impressed by these considerations, several eminent medical and scientific men of London have combined to prepare a series of Health Primers of a character that shall be entitled to the fullest confidence. They are to be brief, simple, and elementary in statement, filled with substantial and useful information suitable for the guidance of grown-up people. Each primer will be written by a gentleman specially competent to treat his subject, while the critical supervision of the books is in the hands of a committee who will act as editors.

As these little books are produced by English authors, they are naturally based very much upon English experience, but it matters little whence illustrations upon such subjects are drawn, because the essential conditions of avoiding disease and preserving health are to a great degree everywhere the same.

VOLUMES OF THE SERIES.

Exercise and Training. (Illustrated.)

Alcohol: Its Use and Abuse.
The House and its Surroundings.
Premature Death: Its Promotion or Prevention.

Personal Appearances in Health and Disease. (Illustrated.)
Baths and Bathing.
The Heart and its Functions.
The Head.
Clothing and Dress.
Water.
The Skin and its Troubles.
Fatigue and Pain.
The Ear and Hearing.
The Eye and Vision.
Temperature in Health and Disease.

In square 16mo volumes, cloth, price, 40 cents each.


For sale by all booksellers. Any volume mailed, postpaid, to any address in the United States, on receipt of price.

D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 549 & 551 Broadway, New York.