THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE (255 pp.)T. D. KendrickLippincott ($4).
DISASTER AT DUNDEE (240 pp.)John PrebbleHarcourf, Brace ($4).
John Wesley, a specialist in bringing the wicked to their senses, conceded that for work of this kind, nothing was handier than an earthquake. "There is no divine visitation." he wrote with a connoisseur's relish, "which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners." Methodism's Founder Wesley thus neatly expressed the theme of a curious and scholarly account of the great Lisbon earthquake, in which Sir Thomas D. (for Downing) Kendrick now traces the long-forgotten relation...
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