Jesus wept, a commentary in black-and-white on ourselves and the world to-day by Arthur Wragg. With an introduction by Vernon Bartlett.

Arthur Wragg

Selwyn & Blount, hardcover, illustrated, 1935 ?
1e edition, second impression

WE have published no more exciting, no more urgent nor stimulating book than Arthur Wragg's Psalms for Modern Life. Not everybody who saw the advance copies of it shared our enthusiasm or our faith, but when, on the day of publication, the reviews appeared and the orders poured in, we knew that all expectations had been justified.

"Jesus Wept" is a worthy successor and we feel that a no more remarkable, a no more vital, and, in a sense, a no more distressingly beautiful work has been seen in our time. Mr. Wragg continues, with all the power and with all the genius at his command, his indictment of modern life. Sometimes bitter, sometimes tender, sometimes satirical, his drawings are unforgettable and succeed in their purpose with an almost shocking force and pungency.

"Jesus Wept " is composed almost entirely of Mr. Wragg's drawings. Very little textual commentary appears, for the simple reason that very little is needed. With all sincerity we cannot imagine the man or woman who wilt fail to respond to the appeal of this work. k is a book to treasure, to turn to again and again as a constant reminder and a constant challenge to complacency. As Hannen Swaffer wrote of The Psaims for Modern Life : " When you turn away from it, you feel inspired to go on with the work of making it all beautiful, of smoothing out the rough places, and continuing to fight Cruelty and War and Pomp and Majesty until all the little people come
info their own."