Books: Message Disguised

ALL OR NOTHING—J. D. Beresford—Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Mr. Beresford's novel is the development of the spiritual life of James Bledloe, commonly known as "Lucky Jim," the inheritor of an immense fortune, the husband of the only woman he has ever loved, the father of children whom he adores. But all the assets which are the envy of his fellow men mean less than nothing to him because he has never been able to find an active interest in which to centre his life and energies. After years of aimless and dissatisfied existence, he becomes, solely by inner awareness, the prophet and agent...