THE MARRIAGE CRAFT. By D. H. S. Nicholson. (Cobden- Sanderson.
O. net.) A party of typical human beings—as the average novelist understands types—sets out in a barge with the avowed purpose of talking out the problems of sex and particularly of monogamy. This they do, each keeping fairly strictly, even sometimes a little laboriously, to the character with which the author has originally endowed them. The Marriage Craft is a pleasant, readable, rather elementary book, and would form an agreeable and tactful introduction to the discussion of a subject which in many circles is unfortunately even to-day pushed back into an unreflecting rather than a profound darkness. To go straight from such darkness to the brightly startling lucidities of many modern writers on sex might prove something of a shock to the sensitive. The best thing in the book is the statement of the celibate point of view which in the mouth of a young high church clergyman is made, if not entirely human and attractive, at least com- prehensible and even sympathetic.
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