SOURCE: A review of Christians Only, in The American Mercury, Vol. XXIII, No. 89, May, 1931, pp. 123-26.

In the following review of Christians Only, Mencken considers anti-Semitism and ethnic prejudice in 1930s America.

What part [coauthor George] Britt had in the confection of this book [Christians Only] I can't make out. He appears on the title page as the collaborator of the Hon. Mr. Broun, but throughout the text the latter speaks in the first person, and much of the matter presented is derived from his personal experiences. Can it be that, in his old age, Broun is turning illiterate, and so, like Henry Ford, needs a ghost-writer? If so, the phenomenon ought to get some public notice. But whatever the fact, the book itself is a very interesting work, and presents a mass of material that is not otherwise accessible. Broun shows that even in New York, with...