Sir Charles Bright has been happily inspired in Let's Help
a Collection of Good Causes (Routledge, 4s. 6d.). Voluntary service in a myriad forms is still a characteristic of English society, despite the growth of bureaucracy, but the problem of securing publicity and support for the. innumerable organisa- tions becomes increasingly difficult. Sir Char- les- has therefore selected forty or fifty good causes of the most varied kind in which he is personally interested, and has described their objects and methods in as many readable chapters. He begins with the League of Nations Union, and he includes many societies that are concerned with the rising generation, like the Boys' Brigade and the National Playing Fields Association, or are working for peace in industry, like the Industrial Christian Fellowship. We are glad to :find the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Sir Charles's list. A pleasant and informal book of this kind should help the institutions, while it is an encouraging reminder that, despite trade depression and crushing taxation, many good citizens are carrying on as usual.
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