The Town of Morality. By C. H. R. (Mills and
Boon. Cs.)— " The narrative," so runs the sub-title, "of one who lived here for a time." The town has for its chief magistrate Dr. Legality. Mr. Self-Satisfied, married to a daughter of Mr. Self-Gratification, of the Town of Great Comfort, is a prominent citizen. This nomenclature seems to us not a little clumsy. Surely an element- ary sense of fitness would have taught "C. H. R." to use more subtlety in naming his dramatis personae. He evidently thinks that the Gospel is being refined away. The new theology is to blame ; criticism is to blame ; all attempts to accommodate Christian teaching £o modern thought are detestable. Among the mischievous persons who keep Pilgrim from finding the right way are those who hold that " the Psalms were not written by David." If you are to reach the Celestial City you have, it seems, to look on "By the waters of Babylon" as a prophecy of the exile which was to be. We almost expected to find "Giant Critic" installed in one of the places where Bunyan put Pagan and Pope. We do not wish to say anything harsh about what is manifestly a well-meant effort to promote the truth. Still we cannot but regard the book as a mistake. After all, morality is not an evil thing, and there are worse abodes than the city where it flourishes.
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