Adding to the ever increasing sentiment that would peace is doomed and that war clouds are gathering in European skies, Paul Hutchinson, managing editor of "The Christian Century," in an article entitled "The Collapse of Pacifism" sets forth the thesis that only the Protestant churches can effectively prevent war in the event of a critical situation arising. Mr. Hutchinson's analysis of the feeling prevalent throughout the world today is adequate but his assertion that only the Protestant clergy can form a nucleus for a pacifist opposition in the case of a threatened war is shallow since he falls to take into account that large number of youths today who are vehemently opposed to serving as fodder for enemy guns.

A more thoughtful discussion of a problem of immediate interest is Max Nomad's "Capitalism without Capitalists." Pointing out that both Communism and Fascism are new forms of capitalism with privileged, self-perpetuating classes, Mr. Nomad endeavors to consider the question: who is to have the power? He lucidly points out that "the new system, in its various forms, will have its own internecine struggles of various groups contending for power, for the possession of the key positions in the government--and better jobs for their clientele."

"Politicians, Teachers, and Schoolbooks" are surveyed with a practised eye by P. A. Knowlton, the editor of the Educational department of the MacMillan Company. Citing the havoc which politicians, the public, and teachers themselves wreak upon schoolbooks by false economy and attempts to make texts conform to local or professional prejudices, Mr. Knowiton suggests very convincingly the need for a reform of his evil which has been a part of free education since its inception.

As a companion piece to "We Live on Relief" in April Scribner's there is an article by an anonymous woman writer entitled "Does the World Owe Me a Living?" More than a description of how the other half lives this article is a revelation of a mode of thinking unknown by those happy with luxuries and oblivious to the sufferings of persons condemned to poverty through no fault of their own.

In addition to the articles mentioned above this month's Scribner's contains two fair stories, an enlightening article on "Art Renascence under Federal patronage," several mediocre poems, and a list of lone hundred books of the year by the seasoned literary critic, William Lyon Phelps.