Books: The Votary

RESISTANCE, REBELLION, AND DEATH (272 pp.)—Albert Camus—Knopf ($4).

Collections of sermons, except those by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, usually sell about as well as a Swahili grammar. But Alfred A. Knopf has published such a collection, the difference being that the sermons deal with the theology of politics, and were composed with aphoristic brilliance by the late Albert Camus. The author called them actuelles, or occasional pieces, and he thought as highly of them as he did of his novels, plays and philosophical essays. He may well have been right.

A Question to Christians. Camus appears in this collection in all his familiar...

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