Christ or Mars? by WILL IRWIN. A passionate but documented indictment. Mr. Irwin says we do not want peace hard enough; the mood of man must be changed before peace can come about. He believes it can be done. “We are trying to hide in squirrel-holes from God. And the church, which purports to interpret to our world His intentions, is hiding too.”
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER’S Building the American Nation is a series of lectures on Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, John Marshall, Webster, Jackson and Lincoln.
The Ideals of Theodore Roosevelt, by EDWARD H. COTTON. The book deals especially with Roosevelt’s religious beliefs and his creed as expressed in a life of action. Theodore Roosevelt’s sister, Corinne Roosevelt, writes the preface.
The Spirit of Islam, by SYED AMEER ALI. Recognised as the one authoritative work in English for use in Moslem centres of instruction. Of especial interest in connection with Lothrop Stoddard’s The New World of Islam.
Man and the Attainment of Immortality, by JAMES Y. SIMPSON. After a careful outline of biological evolution, the author interprets Christianity as the most important stage in the evolution which, from being physical, is tending more and more to become a mental and spiritual process.
G. STANLEY HALL’S Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology, an interpretation of what we know of Christ in the light of present-day psychological knowledge, is now procurable in one volume.
A new and useful introduction to the study of philosophy is JOSEPH A. LEIGHTON’S The Field of Philosophy.
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON’S The Humanizing of Knowledge, discussed above, is one of the volumes of the Workers’ Bookshelf series, books primarily planned for use in American trades union colleges but of varying general interest. Other books in the series are Joining in Public Discussion, The Control of Wages, Women in the Labour Movement, etc. (by various authors).
The Greek View of Life, by G. LOWES DICKINSON, a book of charm and permanence, should possibly rather be assigned to Chapter 15 of this book.
The Making of the Western Mind, by F. MELIAN STAWELL and F. S. MARVIN. A short survey of the leading elements of the European cultural inheritance from the days of classical Greece to our own day.