¹ Faber and Faber; 129. 6d.

² One doubtful strain is played vigorously in this essay: the author accepts wholeheartedly the theory of marriage popularised by Doms and others in which the secondary ends become primary. and he even writes: ‘ Although the essential meaning of marriage is the mutual union of husband’ and wife, the procreative end is by no means to be belittled ‘ (p. 51). It is surely hardly opportune to insist on a change of emphasis, which may easily be made an excuse for sterility, just when the sterility of marriage ‘ for love ‘ is proving so disastrous. The Holy See has in fact recently condemned Doms’s theory. ‘