Likewise the Younger Women. By the Ven. William Mac- donald
Sinclair. (Grant Richards. 3s."6d.)—Archdeacon Sinclair follows up a book on Christian faith and practice addressed to young men with one of a similar kind addressed to young women. There are fourteen chapters in it, in each of which some "virtue and its contrary vice," and some special dangers of the time, are treated of. We wish the volume success. It gives excellent counsel, plain-spoken, but without rashness or excess. Chap. 11 deals with a topic in which a literary journal is specially interested, "novels and plays." ,1 critic knows that it is not always advisable to speak his mind about individual examples as plainly as he might wish, and the preacher, of course, can deal only with generalities. But it is hardly too much to say that a woman whose modesty is as sensitive as a woman's modesty should be witnessing a modern play or reading a modern novel at random runs a considerable risk of seeing or reading what is certain to disgust her.
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