A Jewish view of the life of the Nazarene is given in "Jesus as Others Saw Him" (Richards) by Joseph Jacobs. There is a preface by Israel Abrahams of Cambridge University and an introduction by Harry A. Wolfson of Harvard University. If prejudice between Jew and Christian is ever to be supplanted by understanding, this book should help. The life story of Jesus is in the form of a series of epistles purported to have been written in the year 54 A.D. There is imagination, scholarship, and literary genius in this book of a distinguished modern English critic and a leading Jewish literary figure. Now we approach quite an unusual book. Thomas L. Masson was editor of "Life" for twenty eight years. He is now an editor of "The Saturday Evening Post". He is also the author of a dozen or more books, but the particular one in question is "Why I Am a Spiritual Vagabond" (Century). Evidently from his book, Mr. Masson is not now a "Spritual Vagabond", whatever he may have been in the past. As a "religious book" this one is certainly unconventional, but as a discussion in Mr. Masson's style of "how a man shall live in the midst of common affairs a life that is conscious of eternity and not be unworthy of it", the book is both an entertainment and an inspiration. For a man within the Church to see clearly the man within the Church and yet not really of the Church, as well as the man outside the Church, bespeaks the true vision of such a man and augurs well for the profitableness of The Business Man of Syria By Charles Francis Stocking, E.M. and William Wesley Totheroh, A. M., LL. D. A "Life of Christ" from a business point of view that is now helping thousands in the business world. Colored frontispiece, cloth cover, $3.50 net. Postage 15c THE MAESTRO CO., Monadnock Block, Chicago Please mention THE BOOKMAN in writing to advertisers THE BOOKMAN ADVERTISER THE GOSPEL AND THE Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, D.D. 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There are many attempts at Christian solution, but there is room for the practical chapters of "Christianity and World Problems" (Doran) by Reverend W. E. Orchard, D.D., author of "Foundations of Faith" and other volumes. XXVIII Dr. Orchard is one of England's greatest preachers and is "a close student of practical affairs and the tendencies of modern life and thought". A unique but exceedingly welcome book is "Who's Who in the Bible" (Putnam) by Reverend E. Fletcher Allen, M.A. It is a collection of brief biographies of those biblical characters who merit a place in a book of this title. In these days of tremendous activities, such a book as "A Way to Peace, Health and Power" (Scribner) by Bertha Conde is doubly welcome. The book is a series of "Studies for the Inner Life, covering fifty two weeks and dealing with the laws of human life and the teachings of Jesus". 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