The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

IT was during a dozen years’ service as a missionary in China that Mrs. Pearl S. Buck gained the knowledge and formed the scriptural style which have been so perfectly fused in her most important novel, The Good Earth, which was published in 1931. Since her return from the East and her withdrawal from the mission field, Mrs. Buck has written a volume of short stories, two new novels, and has translated the twelve hundred pages of All Men Are Brothers, one of the great classics of Chinese fiction. Last but not least, she has challenged the Home Boards with a courageous and searching statement about the missions abroad, which deserves to be read by every thinking citizen.