The charming collection of legends, anecdotes and fables known as the Récits d'un ménestrel de Reims is one of the gems of Old French literature,comparable,in its naïveté and grace, to the prose parts of Aucassin et Nicolette. It has been published three times under different names. The latest, and the only critical edition is that by N. de Wailly, entitled Récits d'un m. mestrel de Reims au treizième siècle.

The role of the voluntary health agencies in this country is well understood. Tuberculosis, blindness, venereal disease, cancer, and other major public health problems have been attacked by them with notable success, some for as long as 50 years. There is a well established pattern of cooperation with official health agencies and with organized medicine. In its newly added role as a voluntary public health agency, it is important for the American Heart Association to understand these principles and patterns that are discussed here briefly with special emphasis on partnership with nonmedical community leaders, the relationship with the official agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, and on socialized medicine. Good public health work by voluntary organizations is a manifest of the concern of the medical profession with the health of the public and our first bulwark against compulsory government controlled medicine.

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How damaging is wvork? What produces stress? Contending that "work per se is not necessarily harmful," an industrial physician considers these questions and assigns to his profession a major responsibility for "evaluating occupational stresses and assaying the degree of tolerance of the human material" and preventing and curing the stress disorders. TIHE STRESS disorders have been variotusly listed as niervoussness and nieurosis, artlhritis, overweight, hiigh blood pressure, gas-tIric and duodenal ulcer, gout, coronary disease, astlhma and bronchitis, and many others (1).