Books: The Editors Like

THE LOVED AND ENVIED by Enid Bagnold. (Doubleday, $3.00.) As wise and Brittle as age is this novel of the sophisticates in London and Paris, beset by nostalgia and sharp gossip as they approach the sunset of their seventies.

STRAIT AND NARROW by Geoffrey Cotterell. (Lippincott, $3.50) Set in post-war England, with a flashback to a love affair in wartime Holland, this is the storv of man’s belated discovery of the emotional cost of his “career obsession. A Book Society Choice in Britain, Strait and Narrow introduces a gifted new novelist of wide appeal.

MB. BYCULLA by Eric Linklater. (Harcourt, Brace, $2.50.) Horror and wit are effectively mated in Linklater’s weird tale of the lethal good works of a too compassionate Englishman, whose peculiar ancestry has bequeathed to him the philosophy of an Indian sect of religious murderers.

MOULDED IN EARTH by Richard Vaughan. (Dutton. $3.00.) The course of young love is obstructed by family lending in this lyrically written novel, as Welsh in flavor as the author’s mailing address Beilyglas, Llanddeusant, Llangadock.

THE GREAT AUDIENCE by Gilbert Seldes. (Viking, $.3.75.) A critical evaluation of motion pictures, radio, and television: of how these media have capitalized on certain audiences and yet lost others they should have held.

LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON edited by Mabel Loomis Todd. (World, $.3.75) “My friends are my estate. wrote Emily Dickinson, and these letters show her loyalty, her apprehension of the tragic element in life, and her frisky, humorous moods.

THE GREAT ILLUSION by Herbert Asbury. (Doubleday, $4.00.) An informal history of prohibition describing Americans’ drinking habits past and present and how our women reformers and the Anti-Saloon League sought to change them.

THE EYES OF DISCOVERY by John Itakeless. (Lippincott, $5.00.) What the country first looked like to the major French, Spanish, English, and Dutch explorers; fascinating details set in a skillful matrix with a sheaf of admirable illustrations.

DENIM CROSS AND HIS DOWSING ROD by Kenneth Roberts. (Doubleday, -SB.00.) A water wizard who with the confident backing of Maine’s first novelist has successfully dowsed for water in many spots in New England and with more difficulty in Bermuda. An authenticated storv to dampen your incredulity.

MID-CENTURY: The Social Implications of Scientific Progress edited by John E. Burchard. (The Technology Press and Wiley, $7.50.) The written reports and the views exchanged by forty leading scholars and men of affairs who attended the M.I.T. Convocation in April, 1949.

THE 1950’S COME FIRST by Edwin G. Nourse. (Holt, $2.00.) One of the Capital’s top economists gives his concise conclusions about today’s inflationary economy.