5 NOVEMBER 1921, Page 25

Christian Marriage at the Cross-Roads. By Canon Newbolt. (Skeffington and

Sons. 2s. 6d.)—Five Addresses on Marriage, the second of which, entitled " Holy Marriage and its Enemies," contains an unconvincing statement of the Scriptural and ecclesiastical argument not only against Marriage Law Reform, but against the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857. The case against Divorce has been better stated by Paley, in his Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, on utilitarian grounds. Canon Newbolt's exegesis rests on unverified assumptions, and the ecclesiastical practice with regard to the dissolution of marriage is neither uniform nor clear.