The Oxford Group can claim to be enterprising as well
as evangelical. The Bookseller, the organ of the book trade, quotes a letter which the Lord Mayors of four English cities, one Welsh and one Irish, were persuaded to address to every delegate to U.N.O. accompanying a copy of "a book which is being widely read in this country, Ideas Have Legs, by Peter Howard, one of our most ex- perienced political commentators." About the characterisation I desire to say nothing, but what interests me is the statement that the latest editions "bring the total of Howard's books for the last five years up to three-quarters of a million copies." These are for- midable figures, even though The Bookseller adds that "many of these books seem to have been bought in bulk supplies and distri- buted by Buchmanite devotees." The author, I believe—and this ought to be said—has forgone all royalties on these works.
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