Books: Aged Agnostic

FORTY YEARS OF PSYCHIC RESEARCH— Hamlin Garland—Macmillan ($3).

Whether or not convicts in the death-house can be counted on to tell the truth about their past, men who have survived three-score-&-ten are more serious than their juniors on the subject of the future. After that lonely milestone, many an agnostic joins the comforting company of the faithful. But last week stout-hearted Hamlin Garland, though he is five years beyond the warning mark, still kept to his lifelong agnosticism. This intransigence was the more remarkable because for 45 years he had been an...

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