MART'S WORLD. By Charlotte Haldane. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.
net.)—It cannot be said that the conditions of the human race, as amended by Science and depicted by Mrs. Haldane, are very attractive to people who live in the twentieth century. The one bright spot seems to be the institutional of Vocational Motherhood. Training for mother- hood has so often been advocated in these cohitans that it is a pleasure to see it brought (even in imagination) to a point of perfection never dreamt of in the most advanced Infant Welfare Centre. But there are drawbacks. Only selected women are allowed to have babies, and the necessary co- operation "—to use Mrs. Haldane's phrase of the male sex is a transient affair. The whole of human relations are regulated by science in this book, and the process appears to be successful and quite inhuman. In justice to Mrs. Haldane it should be said that, in spite of the matters of which she writes being of such an intimate nature, she treats them in a dispassionate and scientific manner.
Previous page
