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1y    1949  \nWALED STREETb Mtauire ulo se nsde back cove for tescrupuou  \nKhe Mudsummer Selection:  \nLEAD,KINDLY LIGHT by vincenT SHEEAn  \nT HE Midsummer S E L E CTI O N  \nDROM half across the world Vincent Sheean was drawn to India by addan den and dicthing divination Hefound the dreadfi,l neu7Csuaaen,aeep ana aisturbing aivinauion.rie iound tne areaaiul news-paper story he anticipated—he witnessed the assassination of Gandhi;buthe found too,in his talks with the great Mahatma,what he had long soughtand had never expected,peace of soul for himself and a belief in God.Brilliantly and excitingly he tells this story,and with it the life of Gandhi.  \nJhe leaning ofa great if    \nTHE STORY OF GANDHI IS PRESENTED BY MR.SHEEANAS A TRAGIC SACRED DRAMA,FATED TO END AS IT DID.  \nEFORE choosing this remarkable book,your judges discussed itfor many hours.This was not because we were doubtful of itsvalue—indeed it may almost be said to have insisted on selectingitself—but because the richness of its appeal made it a naturalfomenter of lively conversation.Its author is one of the mostByronically picturesque figures of the current American literary scene,and LEAD,KINDLY LIGHT cannot avoid being thought of as a climacticturning-point in the spiritual quest begun fourteen years ago with hisPERSONAL HISTORY.But,beyond that,what will surely make it one ofthe most-discussed books of the year is the fact that its author,anintelligent Westerner,was present in the flesh at one of the most crucialmoments in modern history,perhaps in human history,and that hebecame inspired with the idea of relaying to other Westerners the fullmeaning,of that moment.  \n题That Mr.Sheean in September,1947,then living in a Vermontfarmhouse,already had the conviction that Gandhi would be martyredby his own people;that nine days before the assassination he wrote aletter to his magazine editor explicitly predicting the event;that hehad long and moving talks with Gandhi during the days just precedingit;that,at the moment of the murder he was within a few feet of thevictim and passed through what some would call a mystical agony一including the stigmatic appearance of blisters on the third and fourthfingers of his right hand:these circumstances impart to the book aspecial dramatic urgency,an I-was-there atmosphere hard to resist.This dramatic pressure is further increased by the fact that the death  \nof Gandhi was the climactic event thatturned Mr.Sheean away from the religion ofthe West—which is materialism—and filledhim with a conviction of God.  \n罗Yet all these fascinating circumstancesall this Personal History,can be discounted,if the reader is so inclined;and the bookwill stand.It will stand as a record,admit-tedly sympathetic,of the meaning of a greatlife,as an illumination of the creative ideasof a human personality who dared,in our  \ngodless day,to live by the spirit within him,and who proved by hisdeeds that such a life is the only truly\"practical\"one.  \nGandhi's life has often been narrated,but never quite as Mr.Sheeandoes it.What gives a special clarity and beauty to his view of theMahatma is his conception of Gandhi's life as a tragic sacred drama,fated to end as it did,and in a way consciously shaped by its pro-tagonist.The final chapters of a rich and rewarding book describethe author's conversations with Gandhi,the assassination,and theextraordinary scene of the disposal of his ashes.The last chapterreconsiders the meaning of this magnificent life for a Western worldsuffering from a profound spiritual sickness.  \nYes,this is a book with a message.The message has power—we know that,for it has partly revolutionized the lives of hundredsof millions of Asiatics.It has power to move us Westerners,too一power to stop us in our tracks,to force us to re-examine,in the lightof a life greater than ours,the basis of our conduct and beliefs.Per-haps,if we can but bend our rationalist,skeptical tempers to 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