Slavery of Proelitution. By Maud E. Miner. (Macmillan and Co.
6s. 6d. net.)—Miss Miner, as Secretary of the New York Probation and Protection Association, has done a noble work in rescuing many young girls from the streets and giving them a fresh start in life. Her earnest and practical study of tho subject deserves high praise and very serious attention. Hor analysis of the causes leading nearly five hundred girls to a bad life deserves notice. The influence of procurers accounted for twenty-five per cent.; bad home conditions for twenty- one per cent. ; pleasure and bad companions, eighteen per cent. ; personal reasons, seventeen per cent. ; and economic factors, such as starvation wages or unemployment, seventeen per cent. The last figure is at vari- ance with the contentions of some well-meaning people who attribute prostitution entirely to low wages. Miss Miner pleads for a rigorous en- forcement of the law against procurers and reducers and dubious places of entertainment, and for the restriction of night work for women. As she says, the problem is not merely to take girls off the streets, but to keep them from going there.
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