THE Evangelical Christian (Toronto) has the following justly severe criticism on a certain type of book, too many of which are being issued from the press. The criticism is of books issued on the other side of the Atlantic. Unfortunately, there is too much of this activity going on and the Evangelical Christian has done well in speaking out. The following is the paragraph containing the criticism referred to above:—”Here are a few extracts from reviews of a book that has just been published in the United States. These reviews appeared in some of the leading daily newspapers of America. ‘An evil book but a fascinating one.’ ‘A story that holds one like the eye of a snake.’ ‘A seething cauldron of love, hate, vengeance, sadism. A smashing melodrama.’ ‘Breathless, exciting, imaginative, romantic, brutal.’ Of another volume just issued the publishers say of it: ‘It is shocking. And it is intensely readable.’ ‘More than a thousand copies a day are being sold.’ Both these volumes are expected to reach the status of ‘best sellers.’ They are indicative of the deplorable trend in the literature of the world, a trend which, if not arrested, will surely spell in the end the downfall of a nation. In the last few years the increase in salacious novels has shocked every decent citizen who has read some of the reviews of them. It is not necessary to read the filthy volumes themselves to know something of what has gone into them. The more vile they are the better chance they have of finding a publisher and the widest of reading public. All this is set forth as realism and being ‘true to life.’ If they are true to the life of the so-called civilised world then we have reached the days of Noah and the days of Lot and this world is again ripe for the outpouring of the judgments of God. This is the situation as we see it in the world to-day. It should cause the gravest alarm in the heart of every right-thinking man and woman, but the appalling thing is that there is no alarm. Like Simple, the world slumbers on, saying, ‘I see no danger,’ while all the time the clouds of heaven are black with the wrath of God.”