THE EARNEST ATHEIST—Malcolm Muggeridge—Putnam ($2.75). Of late years Samuel Butler has been known mainly as the author of The Way of All Flesh, one of the best of modern English novels. But that fame ...

SAMUEL BUTLER (242 pp.)—Philip Henderson—Indiana University ($3.75). “A man first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he is born. It is then he insists on setting up a ...