Books: The Editors Like

TERROR IN THE STREETS by Howard Whitman.(Dial, $3.50.) A report in the Lincoln Steffens tradition on hoodlum crime in the great cities of the United States. Powerful stuff — and shocking.

WARRIOR WITHOUT WEAPONS by Marcel Junod. (Macmillan, $4.00.) In this dramatic narrative of humanitarian achievement, a Swiss surgeon describes his ten years’ service with the International Red Cross — in Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, Nazi-occupied France, Greece, Manchuria, and Hiroshima.

WE OF NAGASAKI by Takashi Nagai. (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2.75.) Dr, Nagai, a bedridden victim of radiation, has eloquently brought together the interlocking stories of eight survivors of the Nagasaki bomb. The moral aftermath, he suggests, has been as terrible as the immediate physical horrors, A book to be pondered by those who consider the bomb “just another weapon.”

WAR IN KOREA by Marguerite Higgins. (Doubleday, $2.75.) The hell and heroism of the GI’s war in Korea told in the personal report of their favorite woman combat correspondent.

FABLED SHORE by Rose Macaulay. (Farrar, Straus and Young, $4.00.) This account of a motor trip from the Pyrenees to Portugal, via the eastern coast of Spain, is travel writing at its finest — observant, zestful, informed by vast learning and set down con amore.

THE PARIS WE LOVE edited by Doré Ogrizek.(McGraw-Hill, $6.50.) History, art, gastronomy, night life, shopping — this sumptuous addition to the “ World in Color Series” covers them all. Cocteau, Maurois, and Jules Remains are among the contributors, and the 300 illustrations are really a treat.

THE FISHERMAN’S GUIDE TO MAINE. by Earle Doucette. (Random House, $2.95.) Practical, goodtempered prose and a dozen negotiable maps showing you where to be and how and what to catch. An ideal handbook.

MUSIC RIGHT AND LEFT by Virgil Thomson. (Holt, $3.50.) One of our leading music critics offers a spirited and diversified selection of his reviews and essays since 1947. While the accent is on the problems of modernism, Mr. Thomson ranges from the standard repertory to movie music and Soviet aesthetics; from Sir Thomas Beecham to Edith Piaf and Margaret Truman.

THE PERFECT CONDUCTOR by Frederick Coldbeck. (Pellegrini & Cudahy, $3.50.) A lucid and pleasantly written treatise on “listening to music with your eye, ” or how to appreciate conductors.

HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW by Ethel Waters with Charles Samuels. (Doubleday, $3.00.) The compassionate and powerful autobiography of a great American artist, who started as a blues singer in the Rinkydinks at $25 a week, and rose to be the highestpaid star on Broadway.