Books the Editors Like

The Great Travelers Edited by MILTON RUGOFF

A two-volume collection, illustrated and boxed, of excerpts from the best adventures of travelers from Marco Polo at the court of the Old Man of the Mountains to Alistair Cooke in swampiest Florida. SIMON AND SCHUSTER, $12.50.

Five Sea Captains Edited by WALTER TELLER

American sailing captains tell their own tales: Amasa Delano in the Pacific islands, Edmund Fanning circling the world, Richard Cleveland, shipowner at twenty-four, George Coggeshall, running South American blockades, and the extraordinary Joshua Slocum. ATHENEUM, $7.95.

Edited by IRWIN R. BLACKER and HARRY M. ROSEN

The Spanish conquest of the Americas, reported as far as possible by the conquistadors themselves, with explanations and discreet connective tissue supplied by Mr. Blacker. BOBBS-MERRILL, $5.95.

Antarctica BY EMIL SCHULTHESS

Called a photographic survey, this book provides a minimum of text and a maximum of cold, beautiful pictures. Preface by Sir Raymond Priestley, SIMON AND SCHUSTER, $15.00.

Edited by GARDNER MURPHY and ROBERT BALLOU

William James’s extensive scientific studies included investigations in telepathy, faith healing, mediumship, and other matters that remain unsettled to this day, and his collected reports and comments on them are fascinating reading. VIKING, $6.00.

Edited by ERNST L. FREUD

Private letters to all sorts of people, including a large number of love letters to his future wife, reports of travel, amiable gossip, and an oddly unpsychiatric list of ten good books. BASIC BOOKS, $7.50.

Some of these stories are as well known as Yankee Doodle, others have been long out of print, all of them are splendid things. Preface by Mark Schorer. WORLD, $6.00.

Edited by WALTER LOWENFELS

Mr. Lowenfels has tried to reconstruct, from Whitman’s letters, diaries, and published articles, the book about the Civil War that the poet dreamed of but never wrote. Not much of this material is new, but the arrangement is ingenious and interesting. Drawings by Winslow Homer. KNOPF, $5.00.