Miss Hall's book is a factual discussion of the problem of prostitution following the many official reports and studies. The treatment is conventional under such chapter headings as Extent,

Causes, Results, Laws Concerning, and the like. A survey of the extent of prostitution and the social efforts to deal with it by various countries is given. There is an attempt to balance "authorities" on the question of the desirability of sexual abstinence which seems quite naïve to the intensive student of the individual life. A trend in women towards occasional prostitution, and towards increased sexual freedom is found in Western European countries and America. The lack of psychological orientation limits the value of this book to that of a quite conventional survey.