Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-30

portrayal, as the medium of a per-
sonality that is remarkable in it's
charm, the work of Mr.. Begbie be-
comes a matter of individual graft
tude on the part of all readers.
AN AMERICAN SOLDIER: Letters of
Edwin Austin Abbey. Boston:
Houghton Miffiin Company.
A graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania, Edwin Austin Abbey
early in the war enlisted in one of
the Canadian regiments. He was kill
ed in 1917 at Vimy ridge. where the
Canadians won deathless honor. These
are young Abbey's letters home. In
running detail they resemble the let
tiers of thousands of the boys at the
front. There is the same zest for
news from home, the same eager joy
over packages that have found their
way to him, the same account of the
days work in the trenches, the same
story of infreQuent easements from
the rigors of trench life, the same
tribute to the good friends of trench
and billet But these is more than
this to these letters. 1t is that some
thing more that made the "Carry-On
Letters" of Coningsby Dawson, and his
GLORY of the Trenches" a thing above
Tic iIlClC IIbdltCl VI piy W al al y, d
thing that concerned itself with the
growth of the soldiers spirit, with
the revised appraisals that he was
constantly making on life's values,
with the sincerity and bigness of the
soldiers friendships, and with the re-
births that are day by day going on
there in the midst of physical death.
These books of letters, written by
thoughtful and trained. but none the
less human, young soldiers, are books
to cherish, for they are glorified text
books of human life and growth.
THE TRIANGLE OF HEALTH. By
Alma c. Arnold. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf.
The triangle of health includes the
hygiene of the body, of the mind and
of the spirit. Only the Wilderness of
all three insures health to the individ-
ual. 1t is from these three lines of
approach that this writer discusses
the subject of health. and lays down
ways for it's achievement DR. Arnold
is the kind of physician toward whom
so many nowadays are turning in
their skepticism about the efficacy of
drugs. Herself an NJ. d. at one time,
and later close student of osteop-
athy, chiropractic, physical culture
and psyche contemporaries, DR.. Arnold
here discusses the re-creatiye powers
of ones own body through the COM
bined fundamentally of dietetics hy-
giene, physical culture, the building
power of the thoughts we cultivate.
and the daily heaith-giving lift to the
spirit. In practical detail, DR.. Arnold
describes the various organs of the
body and their functions, pointing out
the conditions-mental, physical and
spiritual-that lead to arrangement
and impaired functioning. She dis
cusses the causes and preventives of
certain common ailments. .consid-
cradle part of the treatment of this
subject is given over to the subject
of dietetics, since it is upon the sci
ence of dietetics that, in this means,
drugless healing rests. At this point
the writer takes up the amount of
food required to energize and recreate
the. body, the combinations of food
that best meet this demand, the essen
tial characteristics of the staple foods.
with a paragraph on the important
subject of overweight and it's opposite.
The book is illustrated in order to
make it more practically useful to the
student who is seeking. rightly, 10
become his own physician. 1t stands
as a well organized, practical treatise,
scientific in spirit and outlook--a
book that is calculated to meet the