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Tlie Ve^tarian Review, London, Eagland.

|[.ooayear. Improved Series. V, S. A.

Tlieotgan orthe Vegetaiian Federal Union. It is publisliing a series of illustrated articles on "Vegetarianism and Vegetarians in Amer- ica" by the President of the V. S. A. They commenced, Jan. 1897, with a sketch of Dr. Franklin, Feb. no. the B. C. Church, March no. the Graham Movement. The Chicago Vegetarian : 50 cts, a year.

Published Monthly. 46 Mc Vickar Build- ing, Chicago.

The neat little monthly has become a necessity to the Vegetarian movement in Chicago where there are four Societies * n club to be reported and notified of meetings and where a Banquet & a Thanksgiving feast have become annual occurrences. We hope it will be well sustained. It has a good deal of vital business pluck and energy and is in good hands. The Sons of Ham : Tale of the New

South. — Louis Pendleton, Boston : Roberts

Brothers, Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott

a Co.,— Cloth $1.50

This interesting story is descriptive o the present condition of society, white and colored of the Southern States. It seems fair and impartial but with a strong tendency towards African Colonization. We regard the idea a 9 impractical if not impolitic. The largest portion of the labor of the South can be best (lone by the sons of Ham and there are no white laborers who desire to compete with them in cotton and sugar growing. There are bad elements both white and black and if these were weeded out by conviction and transportation to some well ordered penal colony in our possession all disturbing causes might be removed. If each state would enconrage industry and enterprise instead of loafing and lynching there would soon be nothing to complain of. The Fat of the Land and How to Live on It.—

Ellen Goodell Smith, M. D. Price $1.50.

V. S. A., 310 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.

The most practically useful book bearing on Vegetarianism, Hygiene, Peace and Econ- omy that has yet been published. It contains important information from every available source on the subjects treated. Its directions for making bread are alone worth the price of the volume, but its recipes cover the ground of Hygienic living without going to the ex- treme of simplicity. Dr. Smith has brought together a mass of information which is invaluable to those who desire to get the

good out of the Vegetarian system in a hygien- ic sense and there are many old established vegetarians who could profit by reading the book and trying the suggestions it contains.

The chapter on Vegetable Oils, a subject to which Dr. Smith has devoted much attention and on which she has experimented a good deal, is very suggestive. She truly says: "we require a certain amount of fat and the fats obtained from seeds and nuts are superior in every way to animal fats and wherever introduced thetr own merits will guarantee their permanency." She then describes the oils obtained from the olive, cocoanut and cotton seed as those most available at the present time. But it is almost impossible to obtain the olive oil nnndu Iterated, two thirds of the oil sold for Olive being produced from the seeds of cotton.

Dr. Smith speaks very highly of the Amer- ican Cocoanut butter, prepared by the Pure Food Product Co., Chicago, and sold by the Vegetarian Society, which she has tested and become satisfied.

Her personal experience with Diamond Butter Oil is quite amusing. Slie prepared a Tlianksgiving Dinner, using the Diamond Butter Oil only, in the pastry and in cooking, but without informing the guests. After dinner her guests, were speaking in high terms of their dinner and remarked that they had none of the drowsiness and other un- p1ea£ant sj'mptoms which was usual with thera after a ThanksgivingDinner where tur- key ftc. had been served. Dr. Smith then informed them to their surprise, that no milk, cream, butter, animal fat of any kind had been employed in Ihe cooking of the dinner. Ex- planations and recipes were freely given and her friends have since used daily this Dia- mond Butter Oil which is literully ' ' the fat oi the land."

Tliese friends have found that the desire for animal food and the consumption thereof has greatly diminished. She also relates that persons subject to rheumatism and neuralgia have been entirely free from it since using vegetable fats and discarding animal food, butter and milk. Others have escaped com- mon colds and La Grippe although living in the midst of these troublesome winter com- plaints. This corresponds with our own experience this present winter. We have been surrounded by persons suffering these winter complaints and yet have escaped them all, having used cocoanut butter even as a table butter as well as for cooking.

This book should be in every kitchen in the land and then there would be little sickness winter or snmuier.

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