Platform and Pulpit Addresses on Temperance Topics. By the Rev.
H. Edmund Legh. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—If to Mr. Legh there be granted the righteousness or advisability of the social movement in which he is engaged, it must also be allowed that the little book containing his addresses is remarkably well arranged. As regards, indeed, the manner in which the arguments against the use of alcoholic beverages are marshalled more especially for platform purposes, it recalls nothing so much as Mr. Sydney Buxton's well-known manuals of arguments on both sides of all political questions. One is glad to observe that Mr. Legh is not a pessimist in respect of the drinking habits of our population ; on the contrary, he avers that, "owing to altered circumstances of some sort or other, there is in the United Kingdom, side by side with an increasing population, less drinking every year."
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