It seems unnecessary to catalogue the various sea-bathing resorts in Great Britain. They are numberless, and intending visitors are influenced mainly by questions of accessibility and accommodation. Those on the east coast are mostly bracing, those on the west are more relaxing, while those on the southern coast are mostly warm and available during the winter months. We must refer our readers to the various guide-books and gazetteers for detailed information. We have next to consider the various mineral baths scattered about Europe, and it must be admitted that the arrangements for bathing at the various sources of mineral waters are much better carried out on the Continent than in this country. In any course of treatment bathing is generally only one element of the regimen to which an invalid is directed to submit. Diet, climate, rest, and exercise, and the internal administration of medicine or of mineral water, often are called into requisition to perform their share in the cure; and while a patient is bathing, and by bathing is stimulating or facilitating his animal functions, it is of the greatest importance that he should live the healthiest life imaginable. At most of the German baths a somewhat strict surveillance of the bathers is maintained, and at those which have the greatest reputation, it is almost impossible to get, in the shape of food, anything of which the local physicians would disapprove. It is too often the habit of the Englishman to go to a bath without taking any advice as to his general mode of life while bathing, or even whether he may expect benefit or harm from the treatment he is prescribing for himself. The foreigner, on the other hand, submits in all things to authority, and while “undergoing a cure” he is content to have his time of rising and going to bed, his meals, his exercise, his baths, and other treatment, all accurately regulated for him. It is on this account, no doubt, that the German and French baths have so great a reputation, for while visiting them the guests live by rule just as athletes do in this country when they wish to bring themselves to the highest pitch of health attainable in view of some muscular contest. When the Englishman is told to visit this or that continental spring, he may well ask, as did the captain of the host, “Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?” He must remember, however, that, as in Naaman’s case, obedience to the directions of the prophet resulted in a cure, so he must seek out a spring where he will find a prophet; to whose dictation he must be willing for a time in all things to submit.