SIX MODERN THINKERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

SIX MODERN THINKERS

Spiritual Pilgrimages

By j.w.s.

CCT) ELIGION IX THANSIr rC TION" is a symposium by six representative modern thinkers. It proves at least that religion is still asserting its primacy among human interests. In a changing world it is assuming new forms. The editor lias induced six outstanding figures of tho day to write a brief outline of their own particular Spiritual pilgrimages. That personal note, that self-interpretation of individual religious experience, gives this excellent little book its chief claim to distinction. S. Badhakrishnan tells of his quest of a philosophy that would unite East and West. C. F. Andrews, in Auckland n year or so ago, describes his progress from West to East and to the heart of Christianity. Alfred Loisv, the famous Catholic Modernist, sums up his pilgrimage as "from credence to faith." Three famous psychologists, Coe, Leuba and Starbuck, candidly discuss the dillerent paths tlH*\ have taken and where they stand today. Altogether the book is an illuminating cross-section of certain tendencies in modern religious thought. "Religion in Transition." (Allen and Unwin.)

FOR YOUNG ATHLETES ADVICE FROM JACK LOVELOCK " Athletics," is one of a series of books on Modern Sports which Mr. Howard Marshall is editing. This particular volume has been edited by Bevil Hudd, and its author is that famous athletic body known as the Achilles Club, which lias selected a team of experts to describe the technicalities of their respective events. Thus, Alan Pennington, who represented Great Britain in the lentil Olympiad at Berlin in 1936, and holds the Oxford record for tho 220 yards, says what he knows about sprinting; A. G. K. Brown follows on the quartermile; on general and special training for the mile, read J. E. Lovelock. And so on. Every distance has its ace. including that nimble Fleet Street runner, Mr. E. A. Montague, on " gentle trots up to six or seven miles. After the races come the other forms of athletic sport—jumping, pole-vault-ing. throwing the discus, etc.—and, finally, a chapter on general health and diet. There should be a big demand for this book among young athletes in Isew Zealand.

"Athletics:" The Modern Sports Library. (Dent).