Books: Salvation

THE HEAVENLY LADDER — Compton Mackenzie—Doran ($2.50). Mr. Mackenzie has been for some time occupied with the spiritual salvation of Mark Lidderdale. The Altar Stops and The Parson's Progress have already brought him into the Anglican ministry. In The Heavenly Ladder, he has taken a living in Nancepan, minute fishing and farming parish. He sets to work to startle the population into salvation, introducing the most advanced rituals of Church of England Catholicism. The horrified villagers retaliate by savagely underhanded attacks on the man who, to their minds, is guilty of extremest...