Humanly Speaking

one will no doubt be as successful as its predecessors. It lacks something in connected thought, for its "chapters" are in reality different lectures given to a wide variety of audiences and necessarily pitched at different levels under titles by no means mutually exclusive. The book is thus best read as a series of essays and these include, as in the author's other writings, sex and society, the relationships of adolescents and marital problems. The discussions on abortion, homosexuality and punishment are all objective and generally sensible, though they do not go very deep into the emotional attitudes which, as Dr. Chesser says, surround these topics. He departs a little from his usual clarity on corporal punishment.