SHORTER NOTICE
Towards My Neighbour. By C. R. Hewitt. (Longmans. 9s. 6dH THE Rotary Movement, whether in Great Britain and Ireland or the world over, is less well known than it deserves to be. There was therefore gobd ground for the decision that a historical survey of the movement should be written, and equally good ground for the further decision that, as author of the work, a writer unconnect with the movement should be enlisted and be left entirely free t treat the subject as he chose, and for the still further decision th the work should be entrusted to Mr. Hewitt. He has done all flu could be expected of him, explaining with great clarity the orig' of Rotary, the meaning of the name, the aims and character of th' movement, and venturing on some suggestive speculation about iB future. All this has its uses, but the question for whom the book intended pn4sents itself rather forcibly, and the answer is not eaf to supply. Rotarians themselves no doubt will be glad to havel detailed history of their own movement, and find some interestil the story of internal controversies with the sometimes length! quotations Prom draft constitutions and statements of aims art chairmen's addresses. But it can hardly be supposed that the genetsl public want, or can be reasonably expected, to know anything mog than the general outlines of the history of the movement, wit some general indication of its aims and purposes ; and that would go into a quarter the compass of the present book. The value of tlx social work Rotary Clubs throughout the country, and indeed throughout Abe world, are doing is indisputable,. and Mr. Hewitt ha rendered a considerable service in making all that better known. it was perhaparinevitable, and certainly not to be regarded as a criir cism of his work, that the attempt to address two audiences at 0[41 should not'Ele an unqualified success.
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