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WE think it well, in order to deal with this subject more plainly, to add a few words to our remarks about it last month; * and we are led to do so mainly, because, from a few letters received from those who have read those remarks, it is evident that some at all events are not yet quite clear on the point. Some write most gratefully for what we have written about reading fiction. But two or three seem a little argumentative on the subject, and cling somewhat tenaciously to their story-books. In the first place, one kind friend has sent us the following cutting from some publication of which the name was not given: and we think it only fair to print it in full, as we wish to deal with our subject thoroughly, and from all points of view : PHYSICIANS AND NOVELS.-Dr. W. A. H., an eminent physician, speaking of the value of fiction as a therapeutic agent, recently said: We physicians put a high value upon the novel. I have known ་་ novels to save lives. Six or seven years ago the late rector of Calvary Church came to me used up and unstrung by overtaxation of the brain. I ordered him into the country. He confessed he had not read Dickens's works. I ordered him to read them. He did. His mind, diverted from the rut in which it had travelled so long, recovered its strength. He was himself again in six weeks. In the treatment of diseases of society, novels have been efficacious. We are not acquainted with the physician in question, but have no doubt that he is as "eminent" as he The October Number is still in print, and can be had for 1d. sent to the Publishers, or any bookseller will supply it. is said to be. But if this be so, he is not of course, guilty of such professional ignorance as to be unaware that, in recommending the reading of Dickens's works to his "used-up" patient, he was only choosing for him one out of the many pursuits which would have been equally a thorough diversion to an overworked brain. One very eminent London physician, a "specialist for cases of brain and nerve exhaustion, told us that, many years ago, he was himself saved from a very distressing mental condition by taking an interest in botanical pursuits, and occupying his mind with plants and flowers. And scores of other occupations could be named in which a brain-worker's mind could be “diverted from the rut in which it has travelled so long." Moreover, in the case sent to us, no allowance is made for the total cessation from work, and for the thorough change from town to country life, nor yet for any medicine taken or diet recommended. Why Dickens's works should have all the credit we do not know. It is not that we wish for a moment to detract from the talent of this particular writer, or to deny in the least that his works, as well as those of other novelists, divert an overwrought brain from the “rut in which it has travelled." All we would say is that this is one way of accomplishing such an object; but that to the Christian (and for such only are we writing) there is a more excellent way of attaining all the mental diversion he needs, whether he is in a state of health or disease. We have been asked our opinion, in a general way, as to reading our "Standard Novelists" and Shakespeare. We would answer that the Christian will derive but little good from them in comparison with what he might gain from an altogether better and higher class of literature, such as we indicated last month. Of course, noble and occasionally religious sentiments may here and there be found in such |