For many years articles have appeared from time to time in magazines and books regarding the Community at Fruitlands, but it has re mained for Miss Sears to gather them together with infinite patience for publication, and this little book is the result, the first connected story of the life and beliefs of that little Community which tried so hard to live according to its ideals in spite of criticism and censure and whose mem bers nearly starved as a result of their devotion.