11 OCTOBER 1919, Page 24

A Corner Stoneof Reconstruction. By Four Chaplains to the Forces.

(S.P.C.K. 3s. Cal. net.)—This is a manly, wholesome, and practical little book on working for social purity among men. The authors have addressed thousands of men in camp, and the four specimen lectures which they give are lucid and sensible. They lay stress on the importance of early marriage, pointing, for instance, to the noteworthy fact that venereal disease is least common aniong the agricultural labourers and miners, who marry young, and most frequent among the unskilled labourers and the richer classes, who marry late. The little book deserves a wide circulation.