It is not enough that we should be brought to love Our Lord; we should have some understanding of what he did.

Throughout this book run two ideas: first, that Our Lord was at once lovable and wonderful; second, that he was doing two perfectly definite, easily graspable things - saving mankind and founding a kingdom. That the reader may understand both, the book begins with a beautifully lucid account of what had happened prior to his coming. Otherwise, as the author explains, "reading Our Lord's life would be like coming into a movie when it is half finished and never finding out what happened in the first part."

Then we have the life itself, told with special emphasis on those two great purposes achieved. There is no attempt at emotional effect, certainly no striving to heighten either the loveliness or the horror; but such a telling that the things that happened do their own work in the minds of the readers.

Marigold Hunt is the advertising manager of Sheed & Ward and editor of The Trumpet. For many years she was a speaker for the London Catholic Evidence Guild. Miss Hunt is the author of St. Patrick's Summer, Christian doctrine presented in a fictional form, The First Catholics (the Acts of the Apostles) and A Book of Angels. She says her hobbies are "cats and detective stories."

Taken from the inside flaps.

Drawings by Rus Anderson.