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.

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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 Bolton describing the fortunate sale of Roger’s painting of “The Factory Bell” sends a tear of sympathetic joy to the reader’s eye.  Roger Berkeley was a young American art student in Paris, called home by the mortal sickness of his mother, and detained at home by the spendthriftness of his father and the embarrassment that had overtaken the family affairs through the latter cause.  A concealed mortgage on the old homestead, the mysterious disappearance of a package of bonds intended for Roger’s student use, and the paralytic incapacity of the