Books: On Keeping Free

LIBERTY—Everett Dean Martin—Norton ($3).

In Manhattan's Cooper Union, largest free forum for the discussion of political and educational questions in the U. S., thousands of Manhattanites have heard Everett Dean Martin, director of the People's Institute, calmly, pungently discuss many a knotty point. Skeptical, intelligent, educated, he is a propagandist for the liberal attitude, for the cultured and inquiring mind. Now and then in his spare time he writes a book. Liberty, chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for June, was written last summer at Wauwinet, Nantucket...

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