20 JUNE 1914, Page 25

The Social Disease, and How to Fight If. By Louise

Creighton. (Longmans and Co. Is. net.)—Women, says Mrs. Creighton, " cannot consent to remain in ignorance" of the great social evil which she discusses in this little book. But they should not attack it in a spirit of blind hostility to men, rather as fellow-workers with decent men in the cam- paign. If the problem must be brought into the arena of general discussion—of which we are not convinced—it would be difficult to handle it more sanely and seriously than Mrs. Creighton does.