v. 2. The origin of the ill-health of Wagner, Parkman, Mrs. Carlyle, Spencer, Whittier, Ossoli, Nietzsche and George Eliot.
v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function, pathologic and physiologic, upon the health of patients.
v. 4. Morbid symptoms due to eye strain as illustrated by Balzac, Tchaikovsky, Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn and Berlioz.
“The temper of the man commends itself.”
| + | Dial. 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“The author’s attitude toward his critics, his resentment of the very general doubt of the conclusions of his earlier volumes on these subjects, and a certain harshness in presenting his material will much delay the conversion of those professional brethren, and there are very many of them, who find his theories rather too finely drawn to be acceptable.”
| − | Nation. 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“It would do much to gain acceptance for the general doctrine of the writer were it but presented with more discretion and less acrimoniousness, and, we may add, much more briefly.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |