Most valuable for the perusal of mothers, and of those fathers who may be equal to the task of advising sons liable to commit matrimony. The style--of the text--is unexceptionable. Words are not wasted, and those used are to the point. The volume is not a mere _resumé_ of others' opinions; but the author has made the topics of which he treats his own. * * * * * FROM THE CHICAGO MEDICAL EXAMINER OF NOV. 1869. This work is written in a plain and pleasing style, well calculated both to please and instruct. There is nothing of the _sensational_ or imaginative character in it. On the contrary, its teachings are in strict accordance with scientific facts and good sense. Though designed specially for females, yet a careful perusal would be productive of much benefit to both sexes. * * * * * FROM THE METHODIST HOME JOURNAL, DEC. 4, 1860. Hitherto, the subjects so honestly and so skilfully treated in this volume have, to a very great extent, been ruled out of the realm of popular knowledge, and information of this class sought only in a clandestine manner. The people have suffered by deplorable ignorance on those topics, which should be as familiar to us as the alphabet. Dr. Napheys, by his scientific handling of the physiological points which relate to health, training, and development, has rendered a great service to the world. This, the press, and public men, have not been slow to acknowledge. The book has gained unqualified praise, and well deserves it. * * * * * FROM THE PRESBYTERIAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 4, '69. A book which treats wisely and delicately of very important subjects, and subjects which ought to be treated by competent hands, instead of being left to quacks and the venders of nostrums. Dr. Napheys is evidently a conscientious and intelligent physician, and his counsels are such as may be put in the hands of all persons needing such counsels. We commend it for its judicious exposition of the laws of nature. * * * * * FROM THE NEW YORK CHRISTIAN UNION, JAN. 8, 1870. Society owes a debt of gratitude to this brave and scientific physician for the unexceptionable way in which he has performed a work that has, up to the publication of this book, been a paramount need, not to be satisfied anywhere in the English language. If the volume contained only the chapter on the influence of the mother's mind upon her unborn child, we would recommend its purchase by every family in the United States. * * * * * FROM THE PHILA. EVENING TELEGRAPH, OCT. 6, 1869.