It Is in their acknowledgment of the soul and of the plight of the modern soul that the books to be considered here are united. From writers living and writing within the life of the Church, such acknowledgment is, of course, not surprising. But the rediscovery of the soul and of the spiritual world and power by writers who are not members of the Church is perhaps a phenomenon of the age. The modern mind, in the tangle of darkness and evil and chaos, hunts steadfastly after spiritual values, for, at least, a spiritual sense. The long-running tendency to deny the life of the soul of man or to act as if it did not exist is pulled up short in these writers. Here the existence of spiritual reality is admitted and even exulted in, although the nature of a real spirituality is not, in every instance, thoroughly or profoundly understood.