Diet Difficulties, with Notes on Growing Vegetables. By Mrs. C.
W. Earle and Mrs. Hugh Bryan. (Truslove and Hanson. 6d. net.)—You must live on fruit and vegetables (but not sugar, acid fruit or jam) ; tea and coffee are forbidden; eggs are not forbidden (p. 52), but they do not appear in the list of reoom- mended foods, though available in special cases (p. 14). All this is interesting, but doubtful. To many people vegetables as a staple of food are impossible. But cases vary. Quot homines tot diaetae. As to the vast importance of diet we are agreed with the authors. (On a new edition they might put as a motto what Cicero says to Atticas—ego diaeta curari ineipio, chirurgiae taedet, which may be Englished : "I am beginning a diet treatment ; I am tired of surgery "—it is true that he uses the words meta- phorically.) We can praise without reserve the notes on growing and cooking vegetables. The writer of this notice is convinced that the great secret of successful dieting is in the strict modera- tion of quantity. If you never eat too much, it matters but little what the food may be. If the vegetarian adds that it is easier to be moderate on his diet than on one of flesh, we agree.
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