..... or rather, to excess, this is an account of the ways in which Durfee has worked with the ""problem drinker"" (a term he prefers rather than ""chronic alcoholic"") on his New England farm for re-educational treatment leading toward recovery. His book is an informal explanation of how and why a normal drinker becomes a problem drinker, and how he may be returned to his family, social and business life without hospital or institutional confinement. Case histories lend a varied and illuminating touch, and the attitude, which is cheerful and hopeful, lends an encouraging incentive for those involved in this problem.