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Dr. Fowler lists many guesses concerning the cause of chlorosis: menstrual difficulties, unrequited love, sudden fright, fallen stomachs, tight corsets, constipation, poor ventilation, overwork. Says he : "Probably the most logical view was . . . a long-continued iron deficiency in the diet." Despite those guesses "the reasons for the disappearance of chlorosis...
DARKNESS AND DAWN-Alexei Tolstoi -Longmans, Green ($2.50).
Tolstoi was a renegade nobleman who preached against his class. Classless Alexei shares with Gorky and Stalin the biggest book sales in Russia today. Writers in Russia may make as much in royalties as the traffic will bear, but they must not run off the rails. U. S. readers could...
Darkness and Dawn starts off like any "bourgeois" novel of the old pre-War snow-smothered Russia, but it has not gone far on its 570-page way before the rails begin to appear. Its scene opens among the Petersburg intelligentsia, gradually broadens to include engineers, workers, peasants, revolutionaries. All...
Dasha, pretty, passionate, intelligent, has come to Petersburg to study law and live with her married sister, Katia, whose husband, Smokovnikov, is a lawyer of liberal politics. In Katia's intelligentsiac salon Dasha meets the evil Bessonov, poet of despair, who has already seduced her sister and almost hypnotizes...