The Other Americas

AN engaging, if somewhat superficial, sketch of the Americans to the south of us, from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn. Mr, Tomlinson knows his Latin America and conveys the feel of fascinating cities like Mexico and Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, that compound of Chicago and Paris. He also takes his readers into the little-known republics of Central America and into the high capitals of the Andes, with their stately cathedrals. The book carries several endorsements from high officials as a service to Pan-Americanism. Just for this reason, perhaps, it touches lightly on matters of political and social criticism. But it is a good armchair substitute for the pleasure travel in Latin America that is now “out for the duration.”