CONTRABAND

By Henry Barnard Safford 'O4. Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1936.

Contraband is a mild thriller containing a young physician-hero, a beautiful nurseheroine, savage smugglers, devoted G-men, and the agreeable romantic complications which such ingredients naturally produce. Although the plot and the characters conform to familiar types, the background, and local color can sustain the reader's interest if it threatens to flag. The scene is laid on the Rhode Island Coast, and Dr. Safford has diversified the detective-mystery and the love-affair with episodes of clamming, crabbing, and fishing.

Recent publications by Kimball Flaccus '33 are: And Be at Peace a poem published in Scribner's Magazine for January; an article King George V, a Sentimental Tribute, published in Scholastic for February 8, and an article Young Patriots of EasterWeek, 1916, also published in Scholastic for April 18. In addition, Mr. Flaccus has been writing various book reviews, one of the most important of which is Poet andPatriot, a Review of the Selected Poems byA. E. This appeared in the spring number of Voices.

Sydoey A. Clark 'l2 is the author of an article The Friday Market at Alkmaar in the April number of Travel.

Death Comes to the Quack Doctor, a one-act play by Harold J. Kennedy '35 has been published by the Walter H. BakerCompany.

The Vitamin A Reserve of Embryo andBaby Chicks by Arthur D. Holmes 'O7 and Francis Tripp, in collaboration with Percy A. Campbell, has been reprinted from the Journal of Nutrition for February, 1936.

Recent publications of Harold Ordway Rugg 'OB and Louise Krueger, published by Ginn and Cotnpany in the series Man andhis Changing Society, Elementary SchoolCourse are: Communities of Man, a text for the fourth grade, The First Book of theEarth, a text for the third grade, and Nature Peoples, a text for the third grade.

Raymond Pearl '99 is the author of an article War or Overpopulation which appears in the March issue of Current History.

Charles T. Prouty '3l is the author of an article Gascoigne in the Low Countries which appears in the April issue of EnglishStudies.

Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York, have recently published Democratic Governments in Europe, edited by Raymond L. Buell. The section England in this volume is written by, Eugene Parker Chase 'l6 of Lafayette College. This section is also published separately.

J. E. Blower '2B is the author of SomeProblems of University Accounting which appears in The Canadian Chartered Accountant for May.