THE TORCH OF LIBERTY

There have been a number of books on somewhat similar pattern- a collection of short stories designed to highlight periods in world history when the significance of freedom came to the fore. Janet Marsh, Don't Tread on Me (see page 438), is an example. But this, though inevitably there is some overlapping, is far and away the best one that has been done. One traces the different aspects under which democracy has appeared from early Greeks to modern America, Good stories all.