RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28536, 15 March 1958, Page 3

RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY

Willing Agents: An Anthology. Compiled by Doris Meares Mirams. Distributing Agents: Whitcombe and Tombs. 73 pp. To compile a good anthology is a much more difficult task than it seems. Some readers will want what is familiar to them, others will want the unfamiliar. The reader who is dissatisfied with this book will be fastidious indeed. Mrs Mirams has produced a really balanced collection of quotations as the result of wide reading and careful judgment. The book is divided into sections, each containing a different subject matter, e.g. books, suffering and moral conflict, and old age, etc. As each section is a sequence, it is recommended that the book should be read as a whole. On Calvary’s Tree. By Martin Sullivan. Presbyterian Bookroom. 60 pp. In this exposition of the Seven Words from the Cross, the Dean of Christchurch has given us a series of meditations in the meaning of the death of Christ. No reader of this book will find it dull or conventional. The Dean illustrates his theme from nis own experience, or that of others, of the more poignant moments of life