Israel Without Tears
by. Wyn, $3.00.
On her last trip to Israel, Miss Gruber found the infant state “so healthy, so robust, so full of vinegar and salt,” that site decided it was high time to write a cheerful book about it. Starting off with a chapter of wry Israeli jokes about the discomforts of the Promised Land — all’s well in Zion, it seems, where humor is concerned — Miss Gruber turns in a breezy, unsystematic report which, if rather starry-eyed, is sometimes very eloquent and consistently interesting.