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Vitamines.*

UNDER the title Vitamins Dr. Benjamin Harrow, of Columbia University, writes a very useful little book, in which he introduces the study of what is known of the above-named......

Fiction.

THE DRAGON IN SHALLOW WATERS.• Miss SACKVILLE- WEST'S new book is somewhat crudely, perhaps somewhat self-consciously, remarkable. It is about a small manufacturing town of the......

Books On The Table.*

MR. Enirown GossE prefaces his little monographs, reprinted from the Sunday Times, with some charming pats from a velvet paw. He makes, he says, no apology for their......

Readable Novels.—kimono. By John Paris. (collins. 78.6d....

an Anglo-Japanese marriage. Tho main interest of the book. lies in the vivid and terrible picture it presents of the underworld of heathen, semi-civilized Tokyo. In order to......

Pagan Fire. By Norval Richardson. (nash. 8s. 6d. Net.)— This

novel deals with the appointment of an American Ambassa- dor to Rome on political grounds, and is chiefly occupied with the effect of Rome on his romantic wife, to please whom,......