23 MAY 1931, Page 26

We should like to draw the attention of our readers

to a report reprinted from the Dalhousie Review of an address delivered to the Women's Club of Montreal on The Challenge to Moral Conventions. Professor H. L. Stewart assiduously follows in this pamphlet his own advice—Carlyle's golden rule of criticism " that he who has not first appreciated the degree of truth in what he attacks is thereby disqualified from pointing out the degree of its error." His criticism of moral conventions to-day is therefore valuable, and his verdict that there is perhaps at present too large a percentage of independent choice and too small a regard for moral con- ventions is well worth consideration.

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