28 APRIL 1923, Page 24

Food, Health and Growth. By L. Emmett Holt, M.D., LL.D.

(Macmillan. 7s. 6d. net.) Technical lectures by an American Professor. They contain too many statistics to be generally readable. The most interesting is Lecture Five, describing the Child Health Organization, which tries by various means to make play not work of health teaching in schools. ,The present writer has seen Cho Cho, the Health Clown, the Health Fairy, and other of the cardboard dramatic characters used in the kindergarten side of this work, and is convinced that could some such system be developed in British schools it would have an excellent effect on the future health of the nation.