New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-27
HOLIDAY EXHIBIT
Plans At LIBRARY
Opens December 5 and DE-
signed Is an Aid to Public

On Monday. December 3rd. the
annual book exhibit will begin In the
reference room OF the New Britain
library. This means that a selection
from the recent books bought for the
library are displayed in an easily
accessible place 10 that the public
may have some suggestions about
buying books for Christmas gifts, or
any other purpose. There is such
variety In subjects. 20 wide choice
In authors that 1t is hard to say
which will have the greatest appeal.
but here are = few which already
have been noted by book critics.
Two recent meetings. one here and
the other in Hartford. provo there is
an active interest in world peace and
on this subject one outstanding book
is The Outlawry Of War. a Con-
structive Policy tor World Peace"
by Charles c. Morrison. who in his
foreword makes the following state
lnent: III this book has any merit at
all. 1t will DO found. ! think. In four
theses: one. that the problem Of war
must be disentangled from all other
controversies. and. thus isolated.
brought directly before the ma
tions for 4 yes or no decision: .
second. that war is an institution
legal. established. sanctified. and
supreme: = third. that 1t can b
abolished only by disestablishing it.
by casting 1t out Of the legal system
of the nations In which 1t Is en-
trenched: and the fourth. that its dis
establishment can be made effective
only by establishing in its place
an institution OF peace conceived not
under political but under juridical
categoriea This can be done only by
a basic change in international law.
a general treaty renouncing war as
means Of settling international dis
putes would crystalline in legal form
the moral will of the civilized peo-
pies Of the world" Another useful
volume on the subject comes from
the pen OF Florence B. Boeckel.
Between War and Peace, a Hand
book for Peace Workers and con-
tains the text Of the much discussed
"multilateral treaty"
Beside these may be considered
such commentaries on this present
world as The Scientific World
View" by William Kay Wallace:
Recent Gains in American civiliza-
ton" edited by Kirby Page. with
contributions from John Dewey. DR..
Fosdick. Stuart Chase. Rockwell
Kent and others; The New
Morally" by Durant Drake who de-
fines his subject a. "basing itself
upon observation OF the results Of
conduct and consciously aiming to
secure the maximum OF attainable
happiness for mankind" The
Treason Of the Intellectuals" trans
lated from the French of Julien
Benda: Living India" by savel
Zimand, to which "A E" has written
= preface saying Il do not know OF
any country which has such heights
and such depths in its history.
have no doubt out Of the ferment in
India today will come new
renaissance" Another notable COM
mentator upon the peoples OF the
east is that beloved physician, now
Sir Wilfrid Grenfell, who has writ.
zen Labrador Looks at the Orient"
Then We have recently received the
second volume OF Oswald Spengler's
Decline OF the West: Perspectives
OF World History"
Biographies and personal rscoi-
lsctions fall from the presses ~ fast
a. autumn leaves in a high wind.
Among many Of equal. or greater,
interest one may note = Life Of
Moses" translated from the French
Of Edmond Fleg whose attitude Is
thus expressed In a brief introduce
ton, In the creative memory OF
Israel the Biblical Moses lives on,
TRANSPORTED by q tradition rich in
wonderful legends. Whilst critical
exegesis. tracing back myths and
rites to their supposed origins.
would lead US to a primitive. savage
Moses, wholly alien to our world OF
today. the religious. moral. poetical
and satiricat exegesis Of our Rabbis