Hall, Gladys Mary. Prostitution in the Modern World, a Survey and A challenge. Introduction by Charles E. Raven, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge; Canon of Ely; and Chaplain to the King. Foreword by The Publishers. New York:  Published by Emerson Books, Inc. $2.00.

A new book on an old subject that appreciates the social changes that have been happening in recent years and undertakes to evaluate their significance for the problem in hand. An excellent contribution to the subject which has the virtues set forth in the Publishers' Foreword in these words:

“She does not sermonize; there is no theorizing; the facts are permitted to speak for themselves” (p. 3).

I think perhaps a few brief quotations will give some idea of the freshness with which this subject is handled:

“'anyone who finds it tiresome to make habitual use of his reason readily becomes the sport of his passions'”1 (p. 53).

“Comparatively little has been written about the male aspect of promiscuity” (p. 96).

“by a curiously illogical process of thought, these women, while regarded as socially necessary, are at the same time classed with social offenders” (p. 97).

“Sir William Osier, after ranking syphilis fourth among the ‘killing diseases’, afterwards gave it first place” (p. 110).

“'there is an ascertained basis of 40 cases of G.P.I, per 1,000 cases of syphilis, occurring within 15 years after infection'”2 (p. 110).

“'Behind these diseases, and forming for practical purposes their sole source, is the practice of sexual promiscuity'”3 (p. 113).

“'The epidemiology of venereal disease shows that the breeding ground of the spirochete and the gonococcus lies in sexual promiscuity'”4 (p. 113).