Book Review

Editor’s Note: The text below is an introduction to the book review rubric, which started with the first issue of Beacon Lights, January 1941. Since then the rubric has appeared 253 times. The exact number of books reviewed over the past 75 years is difficult to determine. In many instances of the rubric’s appearance in a given issue, several books may have been reviewed, bringing the total number of books reviewed to well over 300. We do not doubt but that our first venture into the field of...