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“Scientific analysis of the processes of nutrition, and the chemical constituents of various foods, together with numerous explanatory tables. Contains separate chapters on ‘The food requirements during the period of growth’ and on metabolism under abnormal and diseased conditions, including anaemia, diabetes, fever, and gout.”—N. Y. Times.
“The discussion is usually illuminating, but here and there a more liberal summary of generalization would be most helpful to students at least to beginners, who need broad statements rather than an enumeration of facts whose bearing they do not easily apprehend.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 110w. |
“Prof. Graham Lusk is to be congratulated on having produced a very interesting and important book.” W. B. H.
| + + | Nature. 75: 413. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w. |
Luther, Mark Lee. Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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Jean Fanshaw is right as a trivet, though wilful and a born fighter. Her ungovernable temper sends her to the reform school, she escapes, but is persuaded by a clean, strong young artist rusticating in near-by woods to return and serve out her time. She does it, goes forth with a clear record, and enters the maelstrom of shopgirl life in New York. Her fight against the temptation on every hand is finally rewarded when her artist hero of long ago finds her and makes her castles in Spain a reality.