Married Alive. By Ralph Strauss. (Chapman and Hall. Is. 6d.
net.)—In his new book Mr. Ralph Strauss gives a most entertaining account of the bewilderment and revulsion felt by a man of science when his abstract theories are carried into practice. Charles Aloysius Orme, a- Cambridge professor, holds that crime is psycho- logically just an unpopular act, and our code of morality only an expedient, and not a very good one at that. When, however, he is brought into close contact with the carrying out of his theories by an unscrupulous scoundrel, considerable doubt arises in his mind as to whether they will hold water. The scoundrel, Mr. Duxbury, has a talent for acquiring wives, of each of whom Mr. Pecksniff might have said, " she was beautiful. She had a little property—like you, Mrs. Todgers." In spite of the intervention of Mr. A. P. Herbert, Married Alive hardly seems an exact title for this amusing work, which could perhaps be more properly described as A Four in Hand.
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