13 MAY 1899, Page 24

Temperance Reforms. By F. W. Farrar, D.D. (James Nisbet and

Co. 1s. 6d.)—Dean Farrar delivered the inaugural lecture of a course which is to be given in continuation of the work of two eminent advocates of temperance, F. R. Lees and J. H. Raper. The fund is invested in an annuity of £100 for twenty years, a good idea. Twenty years of lecturing should avail something if the cause is good. It is needless to say that Dean Farrar made a very powerful appeal. Some, certainly, of his " demands " ought to be irresistible, no drink, for instance, to be sold to children, and better supervision of licensed houses. This is, at present, scandalously ineffective.