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B New York When writing to bookstores please mention THE BOOKMAN AMONG THE RELIGIOUS BOOKS HAT if many of the "religious books" WHAT were half as long? Of course there must be certain adornment to naked truth to enliven it, clarify it, make it adaptable to individual understanding and serviceable to peculiar needs. Yes, but if the reader's comfort, entertainment, enlightenment, uplift, were duly considered, would there not be more lavish blue penciling? Would it not make it possible for readers to read more thoroughly and to live more closely with the author's truths, philosophies, and incidents? Wise is the author who distinguishes between his own urge for elaboration and the reader's necessity for it. Many of the books reviewed monthly in these columns could serve their very fine purposes to greater advantage through being fewer in number of pages. The inherent worth is there between the covers, but does it "get across" as it might? "I could listen more to Churchmen if they listened more to winds and sea and the great surge of humanity." "If I am able to face and to accept all that is implied by the word April, I am able to face and to accept all that is implied by the word resurrection. Yet for me, as for Cleopas, the sole ultimate clue to all Scripture, whether living or written, is the personality of Jesus." These sentences, picked at random from "Chaos and a Creed" (Harper), illuminate the spirit of the author of this layman's volume whose message is given under the pseudonym of James Priceman. There is appealing logic in the arrangement and wording of his chapters: "The Reason for This Book"; "The Manner of Approach"; "The Historical Background"; "The Four Biographies of Jesus"; "Old Words and Old Meanings"; "The Supernormal, Its Relation to Faith"; "The Autobiography of Jesus"; "Creation Versus Chaos". James Priceman's search for a personal religious belief makes a personal religious pilgrimage out of which he reached much solid ground and inspiration for him self, and which he offers to others in this well written, layman's exposition that commands respect and serves a fine purpose. In "Tales of King Solomon" (Oxford) by St. John D. Seymour we have one of those occasional books with a non-descriptive jacket. This leaves it entirely to the reader to discover from the book itself why the author wrote it. Such a lost opportunity for the publisher proves, in this case, a voyage of pleasing discovery for the reader. There are eleven chapters dealing with a great variety "of the various legends that have gathered in many lands and literatures round the name of the Great King Solomon". There are a few illustrations which dutifully add a touch of color to the book. The mass of legends will prove quite amazing to the general reader for whom the book is written. They are gathered from many sources; some very old, others, modern; but all interesting. Within the limits of these columns there certainly is a place for a book bearing upon one of the most acute of all Christian problems. Abolishment of race prejudice and happy adjustment of race relations is one of the major tasks of the Christian forces of the world. Robert E. Speer in "Race and Race Relations" (Revell) "presents a full range of fact and opinion on each aspect of the problem and weighs every conclusion with discriminating care". Dr. Speer maintains that "the race problem is offered to the Christian church as a test and as an opportunity". This is a book for those who would help the Christian forces to move forward into that opportunity. If the greatness of an author is to be measured by the acclaim of those to whom he writes, we must place L. P. Jacks upon a high plane. 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This life of Christ, compact and written in Dr. Moffatt's matchless "modern English" style, is indeed a life of Jesus for "Everyman". The book deserves far more than this mere notice of its publication, but the multitude who know Moffatt through his translation of the New Testament will eagerly follow him in this "Narrative in the Words of the Four Gospels" without the urge of a reviewer's opinion. The world is large, peopled with men and women of great range of beliefs in all things. The world is small, with people brought together through many common interests and through much common knowledge. There are those firm in their convictions as to the efficacy of Spiritual Healing; others who scoff; others who are willing to acknowledge evidence as they see it, but with reservations. All might well be interested in "Heal the Sick" (Dutton) in which James Moore Hickson of the English Episcopal Church produces a mass of authentic appreciation of his curative powers. As a spiritual healer the author has been a missionary to the sick of every land, creed, and color. Of necessity he uses the personal pronoun, but he takes no credit to himself, giving it to the Lord in whose interests he devotes his life. Whether or not this book proves convincing as to the general practice of Spiritual Healing, it should prove informative. The Introductory is usually a revealing statement of the man behind the author. In the few bowing words allowed him it is difficult to obscure either the fibre of the Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers |