Books, Arts & Manners: The Bounds of Public Morality

The Vanishing Right to Live By Charles E. Rice Doubleday, $4.95

This book has me really perplexed. I agree basically, and am indeed quite sympathetic with the author’s moral stance; yet I find myself frequently bridling at his premises, at his mode of argumentation, and at many of his conclusions. And I am therefore impelled to look beyond his views on this or that matter to what underlies all his considerations.