Drugs and the Mind, by Robert S. de Ropp, Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1958, 310 pages.
A most fascinating account of the use of drugs in all lands and among all people to produce hallucinations, euphoria, and stimulation, and of how modern science is exploring the possibilities of curing mental disease by their use. Certain popular misconceptions about certain aspects of drug addiction are debunked, but a clear warning is given of the grim prospect of chemical brainwashing and of other uses and misuses of the knowledge of chemo-psychiatry.
Miracles, C. S. Lewis, Collins, London, 1947. Fontana Books, 1960, 190 pages.
Anything from the pen of C. S. Lewis is worth reading and particularly his works on religion. A former atheist, converted to Christianity, he is able to present the basic Christian message as a layman to laymen most effectively. Naturally, there are features we cannot agree with, but there is much that is not only illuminating but stimulating. His chapter on "The Grand Miracle"—the incarnation —is particularly helpful.
God Our Contemporary, J. B. Phillips, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London, 1960, 191 pages.
This book by the author of Letters to Young Churches and The New Testament in Modern English is a refreshing and timely presentation of the basic truths of Christianity as a contemporary religion for the twentieth-century pagan. Though it is written not so much for the theologian as for the man in the street, the minister will find in it much that is helpful in bringing the fact of God and man's need of Him to those whom he meets in his ministerial contacts.
