18 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 31

Eat and Keep Well, by Mr. G. E. Scotson-Clark (Cape,

2s. 6d.) is,. obviously an American book, for we are not given to those orgies of sweetmeats herein referred to as " a candy jag." Neither would the English employer introduce a quarter of an hour's " setting-up. exercises " at three o'clock in the afternoon, when he found his typists getting drowsy. There are some true words said about orange juice : in mod- eration it is good, but two or three oranges every morning is like taking a habit-forming drug.