The Little Blue Light, by . Farrar, Straus, $2.75.
Sixty excerpts (averaging four to five pages) from Einstein’s articles, addresses, and letters of the past fifteen years. Grouped according to subject matter, these pieces deal with ethics, science, religion, world government, control of atomic energy, socialism, the Jews and Zionism, and “personalities (Mme. Curie, Gandhi, and others). The most striking thing about Einstein’s thought in the nonscientific essays is the ever present and intense concern with moral values; the book’s cumulative impression is of a quality which can only be described as saintliness.
The Stevens America, by Marion and Alden Stevens.Little, Brown, $5.00.
A first-rate handbook for travelers on the highways of the U.S.A. —clearly organized (into twenty-eight TransAmerica Tours) and encyclopedically informative. Unlike a good many travel writers, the authors steer pretty clear of press agentry; and the text, without overstraining for liveliness, is briskly readable. There are thirty-five maps and a fiftypage “route finder,” which tells the motorist the beat way to get from wherever he is to wherever he wants to go.