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B New York When writing to bookstores please mention THE BOOKMAN AMONG THE RELIGIOUS BOOKS NE always wonders if there is any good they appear, like all books, some are marked with the tag of useless or indifferent, but others earn their right to existence not so much by new facts disclosed as by a method of treatment which wins its peculiar circle of readers and claims new students of the life of the Master. "The Man Christ Jesus" (Century) will command wide attention and win its range of followers. Dr. W. J. Dawson, author of "The Autobiography of a Mind", has written a life of Christ in terms of the modern mind. It is not a theological study, but "a portrait drawn from the Scriptures, and enriched by the Author's travels in the Holy Land. It will thrill the man secure in his belief, and is a direct offering to the spiritually hungry." The book is brilliantly written, but most human in its spirit of understanding, and sympathetic in its grasp and interpretation. It can hardly fail to fascinate its readers. Naturally there will be those to differ with it, but there will be more to be greatly helped by it. The book is fully illustrated with reproductions from the masters, the originals of which hang in Dr. Dawson's own library. There are thirty chapters in the four hundred and fifty pages of this "vivid portrait of the Savior". Rarely does the reviewer choose to crib the publisher's jacket comment as a matter of pride, and there is seldom the slant which conveys the reviewer's impression - but "Next Year in Jerusalem" (Boni, Liveright) proves the exception. The book was written by Jerome and Jean Tharaud, translated by Madeleine Boyd. The jacket reads: "This book begins with three impressions of current religious beliefs in Jerusalem. The first is that of orthodox Catholics around the tomb of Jesus; the second is the Jews around the foundations and 'wall' of Solomon's Temple; and the third is around the Mosque of Omar. In contrast to the 'wall' and its immense connotations, there is given in the last chapter a clear study of a settlement of returned Jews. The Zionist Jews are modern and sceptical and look toward a future of culture and light as against tradition and ritual. The book is not against Zionism, but questions the wisdom of attempting to realize that idea in this day. The book is done with sympathy and beauty, and it is difficult to describe in a short paragraph the importance and consequence of this book to the Jewish world. It is not propaganda or a tract, it is a book of rare beauty, understanding and interpretation." XXVIII THE BOOKMAN ADVERTISER A very readable book is "From Over the Border" (Missionary Education Movement). It is a study of the Mexicans in the United States by Vernon Monroe McCombs, super intendent of the Latin American Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church with head quarters in Los Angeles. For the past fourteen years he has been supervising the work of his church in the southwest among im migrant Mexicans and other immigrants. He has traveled in Mexico and is especially qualified to interpret those who have come to us "from over the border". In his foreword the author states that in writing this XXIX Some of the Most Important Man and the Attainment JAMES Y. SIMPSON, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., Professor Natural Science, New College, Edinburgh. A convincing book which presents the best scientific thought on the subject of evolution. A complete study of man from his animal ancestry to his vision of God. 32 Illustrations. Net, $2.25 book he had two main purposes: "To put Evolution and Redemp into Home Missions the thrill of the great The Paths That Lead to WILBUR FIsk tillett, Vanderbilt University. Dean Tillett thinks that John Wesley might have been an evolutionist had he lived in our day. The chapter on Evolution and God is a splendid defense of the man who believes in God and evolution. son it carries its stirring story with much Scientific Christian appeal. Here is indeed a religious book by title, subject, and in Christian spirit. "The Soul's Sincere Desire" (Little, Brown) appeared first last August as an article in "The Atlantic Monthly". It at once struck home and created a demand which has resulted in the book. In this modern essay on prayer the author states, "I do not wish the method (of prayer) here described to become a formula. I offer it rather as an opening of doors and windows through which man's soul may find liberties from the confinement of the things which bind, The Business Man of Syria By Charles Francis Stocking, E. M. A book for Christian Frontispiece, cloth, $3.50 De Luxe, $5.00 Postage 15c. Thinking Net, $4.00 Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers XXX AMONG THE RELIGIOUS BOOKS meet the ever-ex and expand a bit to panding love of God. Let me stand in the market place with the physical culturists and demand, as they demand, fifteen minutes of your time every day for two months. . . . You will find yourself in a friendly universe, where religion will no longer be a thing to be believed or disbelieved, a thing to be worn or cast off, but where religion will be a part of life as blood is a part of the body." "Poetry from the Bible" (Dial), edited by Lincoln MacVeagh, contains "the most beautiful and famous passages of Biblical poetry from the Riddle of Lamech and the Songs of Moses and Deborah to the Canticles of Saint Luke". The text followed is, in the main, that of the Revised Version. It is in verse form and is presented in one of those convenient little volumes which seem to make poetry more intimate be. as it should "The Revelation of Man" (William S. Rhode Co.) by Jutta Bell-Ranske is produced under the auspices of the Progressive Forum. The author in his foreword says, "It is ignorance of the fundamental laws of life that is at the root of all evil . . . through careful analysis of his own conditions, man shall be forced to realize that his physical body is but the medium of an inner self that demands an entirely changed attitude of life. . . it is consequently essential that he should begin to turn his attention to the invisible source which is the means of his re-enforcement." There are twenty seven chapters dealing with "The New Consciousness", "The Electrons of the Body", "The Nervous System", "Psychology and Its Limitations", "The Battle Fields of Life", "Religion", "The Meaning of Christianity", with other chapters leading up to "The Revelation of St. John with the Key to the Apocalypse". Further treasures of Jewish literature, made available through the Schiff Library of Jewish Classics, come to us in the second volume of this series. In this volume, selections of the religious and secular poetry of Jehudah Halevi, one of the greatest Jewish poets, have been translated by Nina Salaman, a dis There is startling truth in "Empty Churches" (Century) by Charles Josiah Galpin; truth which is not pleasant to read; truth about the money spent to keep competing churches alive; about the great areas without churches; about the changes in rural life affecting church attendance and church maintenance; about the pastor's pittance salary; about many things which few of us realize but which have great significance for this country's future. "More than four million farm children in America are virtual pagans. . . . In one seventh of our rural communities there are no churches at all." The book is a scientific and sympathetic analysis of the forces which are emptying our churches and of the remedies which will fill them again. It should be read by everybody who can buy or borrow a copy and who is in any way interested in the America of tomorrow. A drama in four episodes taken from the life of the first translator of the Bible into English is "Tyndale" (Century) by Parker Hord. The book is dedicated to the four hundredth anniversary of the first printing of the New Testament in English (15251925). The drama deals with the interesting characters and events surrounding William Tyndale and his translation. The injunction to "Cheer up" often has the opposite effect, but it is not unlikely that "The Patient's Book" (Catholic Hospital Association) by Edward F. Garesché, S. J., M.A., LL.B., will prove helpful in its "thoughts of cheer, consolation, encouragement and information for the sick especially in hospitals". It is a small, clear type volume, which admirably fits its purpose. - W. J. C. |