THE CONVICT OF TO-DAY. By Sydney A. Moseley. (Cecil Palmer.
6s.)—Mr. Moseley's authorized investiga- tion of our prisons of to-day" is calculated to bring consola- tion to those of us who think, when we think at all, with poignant distress of our prison population. He has been given special facilities ; he has seen the inner workings of Broachnoor, Dartmoor and Parkhurst, as well as of leer penal institutions. Obviously he is a man of very with sympathies, with a burning desire for the welfare of prisoner,. yet not forgetting that governors and members of prison staffs may, from a point of view of greater and more intimab experience, share his attitude of mind. " "Magistrates, Holm Office officials and prison governors are- offering every chanc( to wrong-doers." He is convinced of "the deep and whole- hearted desire to do the right thing by our prisoners" which they display. It would appear that physical cruelties art- really at an end. As to the mental side of the question, it i. still a matter of groping, but of groping by men with an intense will to get to the light. He urges that the pubis and the Press • should refrain from the discouragement so often offered to those reformers by repeating, without investigation, untrue and absurd reports of so-called " pam- pering ' and " tortures."
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