Books: The Editors Like
American character in Action
BERNARD BARUCH: PORTRAIT OF A CITIZEN by W . L. White. (Harcourt, $2.00.) A breezy, anecdotal profile of America‘s Old Homan. Mr. White‘s approach is admiring and superficial, but Baruch’s phenomenal career cannot help being fascinating reading.
JOHN ADAMS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Catherine Drinker Bowen. (AtlanticLittle, $5.00.) The Revolution was the work of young men, and this is the interpretative biography of the young Yankee from Quincy with his candor, his precaution, and his genius.
HARVER CUSHING by Elizabet Harriet Thom-
son. (Sehuman, $4.00.) An accessible, friendly life, sparked with the brilliance and irascibility of a perfectionist who was both surgeon and author.
CAPTAIN SAM GRANT by Lloyd Lewis. (Little, $6,00.) A sympathetic delineation of Grant‘s uphill experience in the pre-Civil War period; warm-blooded, well-written history.
MARK TWAIN AS A LITERARY ARTIST by
Gladys Carmen Bellamy. (Univ. Oklahoma, $5.00.) In this book with its delightful quotations we see the struggle for self-control between the two Twains: the moralist out to reform the world, and the determinist who railed against the immovable stupidity of the human race.
Travel with an Appetite
A SUMMER IN ITALY by Sean O’Contain. (Devin,
$3,50.) O‘Faolain travels with a discerning eye and a fresh capacity for enjoyment. He loves the Italians without sentimentality, and is equally good on the national character, Giotto’s tower, or the charms of a small fishing village.
A LITTLE TOUR IN FRANCE by Henry James.
(Farrar, $4.00.) This perceptive and urbane volume first published in 1883 covers tlie Loire country, Languedoc, and Provence. None of the recent handbooks on France can begin to compare with it..
SPAIN by Sachererell Sitwell. (Batsford, $4.00.) Sacheverell Sitwell has been in love with Spain for thirty years; he writes superbly of arl and architecture, the landscape, the people, the festivals. Ill photographs.
THERE’LL ALWAYS BE A DRAYNEFLETE by Osbert Lancaster. (Houghton, $2.-25.) The most seriously absurd parody of an English place book ever written. Amusing black and whites.
True and Courageous
RISE UP AND WALK by Tnrnley I Walker. (Dutton, $1.75.) The physical and spiritual comeback of a family man struck down by polio in hithirties.
ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT by W. Stanley Moss.
(Macmillan, $2.50.) The journal of the British Captain of the Coldstream Guards who ambushed and kidnaped the Nazi General on Crete and brought him back to Cairo. An extraordinarily exciting hook.
THE COST OF A BEST SELLER by Frances Parkinson Keyes. (Messner, $1.50.) The ardor, industry, and constant battle against illness and interruption which have disciplined this popular novelist.