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-Dr*: Harris tells of the cear1y work done on this vitamin by joseph Gold- berger, who first proved that pellagra was flot due to infection, as was sup- posed, but to diet. This was donc in two ways. First a group of convicts Wcre offered pardons if they would agrre to live on a diet similar to -that of thé mill-workers. of the_ Mississippi, area where pellagra is prevalent., Eleven prisoneérs tdok the test and sbortly* five of them devéloped, symptoms of, pellagra. Goldberger and his associates next tried to t ransmit pellagra, to therselves by inoculations; the resuIt of, ibis he .roic »experuflent was. entirely negative--not a single one was able to contract the disease. V*iiin» Therr and Practie, bc- sides telling the, romantic story of the discovery of vitamins, shows hov every one may achieve better bealth throughi .intelligent diet. Scholer Turns t, Ficlion Alvin -Johnson, noted ccononlîÎst. former editor of tlhe New Repîibllc, and now director of the New Schooi for Social Research. in New York, is t1li author of a novel which Alfred A. Knopf wilI puhlish ini April under the titie of Spring Storin. The'rmanuscript, was first called* to Mr. Knopf's atten- tion by Clarence Day, who was a close friend of Alvin Johnson's. .Mr. Knopf admits that he was -aston- ished to learn that this eminent, scholar tueor and Do.Iv*roi l'or *UMBÉISItd On Iflyllon or Iwifftr tandmwycountry at ailt ime, T obe i the Girl cout Laul; ~lGIL SCOUJTS e WILMETTE I This book Plaie uns desipned by Mrs. James AMcCue, mesnber of tihe WIl-' e ýGirl Scout piublic'iy coniiittee, for the books being coliectcd for thé ie Mae Osburit librar3l. The nucleus of this collection vîts selected l'y rRali ýlMo«ddig, Mrs.,H. J. -Dersiehi, Mrs. - Frapik 2X. Thale, Mrs. A (fred Sinisier London Tales The dimmer and more sinister corners of grinsy, sprawling, beterogeneous London are tbe special province of Thomas Burke, author of Liniehoust, Nighit.lu nNight-Pieces (Appleton- Century) 'be presents eighteen of: bis most haunting tales of that immense cîty's dark back-streets, shadowy courtz. andi mysterious bouses. The maicritv. of hse tflTie -are Survey Years 1933-15i To help intelligent Americans to understand issues that are alive now and will be alive for several years te come-this has been Allan Nevins purpose in choosing from Walter Lippmann's articles since January, 1933, those that sbh.ould be included1 in bis ncw volume, InterPretations, 1933- 1935. Mr. Nevins bas grouped the arti-. lished the first of the month by qCharles Scribner's Sons. Thse Lest Puritait, a memoir iu the form of a novel, is the February B6ok-of-tbe-Month club selec- tion. WorId renowned for.:almost forty years as philosoper, essayist, and. poet. George Santayana crowns hi$ literary, achievements with a work of fiction which, it àu claimied, is destined to Stand amonig'Oie greatest of,,ail Americait novels and to live as an unequalledpic- turc of Our civîlizatior f rom the '90'S toD thc close of -the Great War., It portrays Amnerican life,, especially if e in New Eugland, as seen tbroiwi, the eyes. of. a young man wbo grcw up in those swiftly cbanging ycars thàt brought an epoch to its close. The pre)- tagonist is Oliver- Alden,- in wh4on "Puritanismi workcd, itsclf out to it-. logical end," 'who "conviuccd himself on Puritan grounds that it was wroln.g to be a Puritan .. and remained a Puritan notwitbstanding.'" Oliver'. bakground and character symbolize a significaût aspect of Amer'- cati life and bis experiences and contacts in rural New England, the Harvard of Santayana's day, Oxford, Eton,.LO'i- don and Paris epitomize the cultural anid social life of a generation. The author sums up bis book as *'the sentimental education or disillusionmient of a superior young American." Oliver Alden's story, although cast in a forni o? fiction is interwoven with Santayanias autobiographical reminiscences, and coin- poses a spiritual landscape of the Puri- tan New England scene. Portrays Lif, of Rich Foiy ije"ii, b3, Wallace Irwvin 1Ap- pletoni-Cetury), is a thorougbly .reàid- able navel. Its scènie laid in Caifornia and Honolulu, its characters: dra wn fronxi the monied society of the Coast, tihestory.telisof thé problem f aced by, a voulng wife who bias married a inuch o1(1er iman. a widowerwith two igrýo%%,t1 children. Frieda Leslie, the novel's bheromei.' fails i love .with and marries 1a .suic- cessful architect. At first. nerfect bWis pr.omI,nv»ea by jhysielimum ness with Lindia and escapes into the P outer. world from the petty preju- t dices of small town life 'makes this k novel delightful reading. Blue Mari- E golds and other novels have been previ I ous, w.orks by Mrs. Miller. ' meri, just yumiJAnIeu F y 8h.wfln The Rollinsg Vears is the story of a ntury, bas gone int its third large Scottisb family i western Pennsyl-. rting. In a first review of the tiovel, vania, especialiy of the youngpeople SNew York Sun çgmmiet* -A -in the district school, at country 'nly1 animated, ettertaining novel. dances, camp-meeting-..and their aders witb a fancy for wbolesome delightful love affairs. There is a hit novels will derive intcrest and saIt, spicY reality in the picture, witb ýoymiént f rom the story."ay touches of, humr