Feeding the Family. By Mary Swartz Rose, Ph.D. (Macmillan and
Co. 9s. net.)—Mrs. Swartz Rose tells us she set out to write " a guide- book to good nutrition . . . for the numerous housewives who prepare something like a thousand meals a year for their families," and she has succeeded admirably in her object. Her analyses of food values are clearly stated, her dietaries are unpretentious, and her advice in all particulars is straightforward and practicaL There are chapters on food for young children, for growing boys and girls, for adults and for the old, and for the family group. We are glad to note that Mrs. Swartz Rose puts in a plea that food combinations should be con- sidered from the aesthetic as well as the nutritive standpoint--a point apt to be neglected in this country. And we may add that war time should make us more, not less, attentive to such details. Our economies will be far less obnoxious if we tako them elegantly 1 As she writes from America, Mrs. Swartz Rose's figures can of course only be taken approximately, but this does not affect the practical value of her book.
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