5 MARCH 1927, Page 33

Mr. Cyril Asquith's Trade Union Laze for Laymen (Cassell, 2s.)

appears at a topical moment. There is a sect ion on the very fine distinction between " informing" and "persuading " in the matter of peaceful picketing. A chapter on '• Some Suggested Reforms " contains observations of unexceptionable soundness, but no very startling originality. Politicians, as Mr. Asquith says, do not legislate for Utopia but work "in an intractable amalgam of ignorance, misunderstanding, prejudice and emotion." Here is a solvent for ignoramce, We hope it will be used.