The Sober Truth

by Lincoln Williams. Edgar Backus, Leicester6/-. This small book takes only a few minutes to read and naturally deals only very superficially with the problem of alcoholism. It is "addressed to the man in the street, and his doctor too" but it will scarcely give the latter much he doesn't know, and its main purpose must be to provide an encouragement for the sufferer and for his family, by emphasising the possibility of treatment; and an appeal to the average man not to regard alcoholism with derision or moral disapproval?which is only likely to make the patient worse. A clear understanding of the nature of compulsive drinking, it is held, will lead to the recovery of many hundreds of men and women.