HUMANITARIAN LETTER
Hesseltine, William B.
Humanitarian Letters BOTH DEEPER THAN AND ABOVE THE MELEE: Letters from Europeans. Edited by Anna Melissa Graves. (The author, Westminster, Md., $4.50). Reviewed by William B. Hesseltine ANNA...
...Benvenuto Cellini Had No Prejudice Against Bronze, for example, consisted of letters from West Africans...
...Neither of these beliefs is especially startling, but it's refreshing to find someone who will still say so...
...It is a timely book of case-studies, richly illustrating anew an ancient theme...
...She is publishing, in a series of books with somewhat weird titles, her personal correspondence with people from all parts of the world...
...Reviewed by William B. Hesseltine ANNA MELISSA GRAVES, who has lived and taught in all parts of the world, believes that God has made of one blood all the races of men...
...She believes, too, that "there runs through European history the silver thread 6f tenderness and compassion...
...There are Jews and Gentiles, Communists and bourgeoisie, artists and students, and saints and sinners in the book, but the common denominator is the common humanity of them all...
...Miss Graves' method of demonstrating her hypothesis is, however, unique...
...The Far East Is Not Very Far contained a series of letters from 2 Chinese, while Both Deeper Than and Above the Melee has letters from Europeans—White Russians, Ukranians, Germans, Portuguese, Italians, French, and Dutch...
Vol. 9 • September 1945 • No. 36
