DANCING: ANCIENT AND MODERN, by Rev. HERBERT LOCKYER, Minister of Leeds Road Baptist Church, Bradford. London: Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd., 29 Ludgate Hill, E.C.4. Boards, price, 2s. net.
This is the second edition, with additions, of a booklet which was reviewed in our columns when first issued. Mr. Lockyer, to whose work in bearing testimony against worldly practices in the Church we called attention in our last issue, has done excellent service in a good cause in issuing this new edition. Any of our readers who have friends who are possessed with the demon of dancing will find this booklet most useful. In his protest against teaching children dancing at school Mr. Lockyer deserves the thanks of all parents who set their faces against this insidious device to train their children in ways which they abhor. The devil has many excuses for leading people in wrong ways but surely one of the lamest ever he invented was to make the devotees of the dance believe that it was all in the interests of deportment that these exercises were indulged in. At page 15 line 5 from foot of page “Means” should read Malan; and at p. 16, line 11 from foot of page “Nagiangen” should read “Nazianzus.”