Books for study and Leisure Hours

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume II, Issue 4, 1 October 1909, Page 162

Books for study and Leisure Hours

' Katrine/' by Elinor Macartney I^ane — Those of our readers who remember that charming book " Nancy Stair," will be glad to welcome another romance from the pen of the authoress. " Katrine " is the story of a singer, a charming girl, whose life was apparently spoilt in early youth by an unhappy love affair ; but who went away with the determination to forget her love in her Art. She went to her master with this request: "I want to be taught in everything. I know so little. It is not book studies I mean. I want to learn to be bigger ; to" think great thoughts. I want, most of all, to develop the power to be happy ; to make the people around me happy. Most I want/ 1 she drew up her chest and made an outward gesture with her arms, a gesture significant of her whole nature in its indication of courage and generosity — " I want/' she repeated, " to grow soul ! " Meanwhile her lover, whose pride of family had intervened between them, was thinking continually of her, and conning over and over a passage which he felt described her perfectly : " She was an elemental force/' wrote the old poet, " and astonished one by her amount of life. When I saw her day

after day, radiating every instant redundant joy and grace on all around her. Though the bias of her nature was not to thought but to sympathy yet she was so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fullness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments ; believing, as she did, that by dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble/' The book is delightfully written, and it is difficult to put it down till the last page is reached.

' Hygiene for Nurses/' Isabel Mclsaac — This little book contains much useful information, not only for the junior nurses, for whom it is primarily intended. It treats of food, its composition and preservation ; ventilation ; soil and water ; sewage ; causes ot disease ; personal hygiene ; "household hygiene ; disinfection ; guarantine, etc., in a very simple and interesting manner. ' #]

;$ ' What to do in Cases of Poisoning," William Murrell, M 1)., is a most useful little handbook with which nurses would do well to supply themselves. All kinds of poisons are mentioned and symptoms and treatment given clearly and concisely.