HE National Conference of Jews and Christians is a sort of permanent religious disarmament conference with a history of several years of energetic activity. Under Protestant auspices it has brought together representatives of the three faiths to discuss points of tension and to promote understanding by means of round-table seminars. Eventually they came to feel the need of facts, and the volume by Silcox and Fisher' is the result of an attempt to meet this need. In January, I933, the Institute of Social and Religious Research approved a study requested by the Conference of Jews and Christians which was to be a series of "community case studies" for the purpose of discovering the actual contacts and relationships, locating the difficulties as well as the forces making for understanding and co-operation. The two authors spent six months gathering material, but abandoned the original plan and wrote the report on the basis of "cursory studies" in thirteen cities in the United States and three in Canada, besides "incidental studies" in New York, Philadelphia, and Newark-nineteen cities in all. Limited by lack of funds, they present the material topically, treating the subjects of discrimination and social distance, relations in social work, education, intermarriage, proselyting, and co-operation. The motive which prompted the preparation of the book was undoubtedly irenic, and the authors present their findings and opinions with a manifest desire to be objective, but the report will not please all who read it. Many Catholics and Jews will