Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-18
% IDA GILBERT MYERZ
Il Neg0 No0eI by Fannie Hurst-More
Biographies, History, q Bible Study and
Nezv Book ON Prohibition.

debt Stepping off with the moment, so to
speak, Volume opens with biography Of
Herbert Hoover, with life sketches of his cabinet
as well. Here are chronicles, besides of the
heads of various important commissions now
operating in different departments of the adj
ministrative field. Not only the political and
governmental fields claim expert attention here.
Education, literature, modern philosophy on
trial and in its immediate effects science, indus
try, finance and banking, philanthropy-ev
vital aspect Of current modern American life
receives here trained geographic summaries of
those who are outstanding in these many de-
partments of the composite national life
full index, straight and businesslike, adds
to the immediate usefulness of the volume to
the already crowded business man. Each biog-
raphy is a succinct, substantial body Of fact
concerning its subject. readable body Of fact
well. Here as almost nowhere else, does one
searching come upon the man and his subject
in direct, time-saving, Illuminating way. OF
surprising use in Libraries, business Offices,
editorial departments of the press, here is a
fresh addition of great business value to q
series that years ago established its good name
upon the sure foundation of meeting a general
need with expert competency and thorough
understanding Of the nature of that need.
SEVEN GREAT BIBLES. BY Alfred w. Mar
tin, AM S. T. B. (Harvard). New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Unless nudged to bit of extra thinking,
our passing assumption is that there Is
but one Bible-and that we have it. Here is
a study calculated to remind us that there are
other religions than own, other Bibles than
our own. Away in the Orient seven great re-
ligons arose and Observation-Disclosures, Bud
dhism, Zoroastrianism, Confuciamism, Moham-
mechanism, Judaism, Christianity. Each had its
sacred book of law and guidance. Each, in the
language of its people, gave out the law for
spiritual teaching. The purpose Of this study
Is not so much to tell about these various books
OF "holy writ" as it is to submit them, literally,
in sufficient measure to prove their quality as
guardians, each of its own people, teachers
each, of its own spiritual precepts and laws
Of conduct. The study does more than this
much more. For, little by little it dscloses a
basic unity among them, common essence Of
all life pervading these seemingly diverse scrip
lures And that, take it, Is the chief value
Of this scholarly and deeply significant volume
the essential unity Of the whole as, side by
side, passages from the great Bibles proclaim
in effect, that life differs at its surfaces, but
that within. deep within, there are the same
calls of the soul to a common source of origin
and dependence There Is, for all, common
outreach toward the unknown infinite. The
World Unity Foundation has work of this capa-
BILE and distinguished sort in hand, and in its
own high projects Of understanding and toll
erance as well. Profoundly worth the study Of
thinking readers
THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
By James Morgan. author of "Our Presi-
dents" etc. New York: The Macmillan Co.
SGT CLAPPED it into my school as history text
for the boys, and they just ate up that
business of exploration and settlement clear
from the Norseman, adventuring, to Yorktown
and free country"
That sounded rather good to me. Teachers
do not often talk with just that swing of en-
thusiasm. I'd read the book, only the day be-
fore. So 1t was easy for me to see the school
fellows, not exactly "eating up" the story.
Rather, going along with it in the very actuahty
of adventure. 1t is that kind Of book. An old
story, as you know. Yet as new here and as
alive as If time had not wedged in some hun
dred years between then and now. After all,
it Is the way Of the writer that counts. And
this man has way, a live way Of looking at
past times through the eyes of the present And
a genuine art, besides, Of, putting a pull into
his words that land them, not merely beside
the mind, but tuck them quite inside the heart