Books: The Editors Like

VOYAGE TO WINDWARD by J. C. Furnas. (Sloane, $5.00.) Atlantic readers have sampled two installments of Mr. Furnas’s biography of the adventurous life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Here is a warm reassessment of a writer who has not, perhaps, had his full desserts from posterity.

THE PRODIGAL FATHER by Edith Saunders.

(Longmans, $4.00.) This is the prodigal story of two fabulously successful writers, Dumas Père and Dumas Fils; of the lovely courtesan, Alphonsine Plessis, immortalized by the younger Dumas as La Dame aux Camélias and by Verdi as La Traviata; and of Paris in the heyday of the Romantic Era.

GERTRUDK STEIN by Donald Sutherland. (Yale University Press, $3.75.) Admirers of Gertrude Stein will welcome Mr. Sutherland’s sympathetic but searching “biography of her work.” It traces the formative influence of her studies with William James, and explains what she was trying to achieve in the various phases of her writing career.

SEVEN LEAGUES TO PARADISE by Richard Tregaskis. (Doubleday, $3.75.) Mr. Tregaskis, who made a name for himself as a war correspondent, describes a leisurely 48,000-mile trip around the globe in search of an earthly paradise.

THE LOG FROM THE SEA OF CORTEZ by John Steinbeck. (Viking. $4.00.) This worth-while reissue brings us the nonscientific part of The Sea of Cortez (1941), the report of the Steinbeck-Ricketts expedition to gather scientific data in the Gulf of California. Steinbeck prefaces the book with an affectionate profile of the late Ed Ricketts, a strangely gifted and original man

RETURN FROM THE POLE by Dr. Frederick A. Cook. (Pellegrini & Cudahy, $4.50.) A thrilling record of titanic struggle in the Arctic. Finished by Dr. Cook shortly before his death in 1940, this book offers new evidence in the bitter Cook Peary controversy over who discovered the North Pole.

THE TRAGEDY OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION by Harold R. Isaacs. (Stanford University Press, $5.00.) No “background book” could be more closely geared to the headlines than this revised version of Mr. Isaacs’s thoroughgoing study of Chinese politics in the twenties and the forces that shaped the revolutionary movement.

THE UNITED STATES AND TURKEY AND IRAN by Lewis V. Thomas and Richard N. Frye.

(Harvard University Press, $4.25.) The oil crisis in Iran gives exceptional immediacy to this dispassionate, solidly documented story — the latest addition to the authoritative “American Foreign Policy Library.”

CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER ATTACK edited by Clair Wilcox. (University of Pennsylvania Press, $3.50.) Six essays by distinguished authorities who discuss present threats to democratic freedom in the fields of civil rights, job tenure, scientific research, education, and the arts.