Books: Vision & Martyrdom

You, THE JURY (346 pp.]—Mary Bore/en—Longmans, Green ($3).

Martin Merriedew, the hero of Mary Borden's*latest novel, You, the Jury, was a singular child. He had some inner illumination that drew people's attention to him. He spoke sometimes to his playmates about God; and sometimes he broke off play and left them, saying, "I must go now. I have to be alone." During the first World War, while still a boy. he visited wounded soldiers in a hospital near the English village he lived in, and there he felt the consciousness of a gift of healing.

When Martin grew up he became a doctor,...