Mécanisme et Éducation des Mouvements

Abstract

THERE are few more important or more opportune considerations in connection with practical hygiene than those which are furnished by the subject-matter of the two books written by M. Demeny. The first of these books, a second edition of which appeared in 1903, is entitled “Les Bases scientifiques de l'Éducation physique”; this is now supplemented and given a direct practical bearing by the present work, which sets forth in some detail the technical aspects of the subject. As regards its general character the method of treatment remains distinctly scientific; but since the avowed aim of the author is to set forth the real advantages to be derived from bodily exercises conducted along proper lines, the scope of this later book is eminently educational, and thus it appeals to all those who take a broad view of education and its requirements. This appeal is accentuated by the mode of presentation, which is such as to render the extensive subject-matter intelligible to those who make no pretensions to special physiological knowledge.

Mécanisme et Éducation des Mouvements.

By Prof. Georges Demeny. Pp. ii + 523; 565 figures. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1904.) Price 9 francs.