Books: The Editors Like
Around the World
QUEST FOR THE LOST CITY by Dana and Ginger Lamb. (Harper, $4.00.) A husband and wife team find the lost city in the jungle country of Mexico near the Guatemala border.
WHITE MAN RETURNS by Agnes Newton Keith.
(Atlantic-Little, Brown, $4.00.) After recuperating in Canada from the rigors of a Japanese prison camp, the author of Land below the Wind and Three Came Home is once again in Borneo with her husband, helping to reconstruct the war-shattered colony.
THE SILENT TRAVELLER IN EDINBURGH by Chiang Yee. (John Day, $6.00.) A look at the Scottish city through the intriguing eyes and skillful hand of a Chinese artist and traveler.
The Jewish People
THE JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION by Solomon Schwarz. (Syracuse University Press, $5.00.) An examination of Soviet contentions that there is no antiSemitism in the Bolshevik territories.
MY MISSION IN ISRAEL by James G. McDonald.
(Simon & Schuster, $3.50.) An informal account of recent Israel history by the first United States Ambassador to this young Near East nation.
A BELIEVING JEW by Milton Steinberg. (Harcourt, Brace, $3.50.) A testament of faith by the late rabbi and author of The Making of a Modern Jew.
Gracious Living
ON THE MAKING OF GARDENS by Sir George Sitwell. (Scribner’s, $3.75.) The distillation of a lifetime’s thought on the purpose and planning of gardens by the father of Sir Osbert (who contributes an introduction).
THE HOMES OF AMERICA by Ernest Pickering.
(Crowell, $5.75.) A view of interesting bouses in many parts of the United States, from the earliest days of New England through the modern period. Admirably illustrated with 215 plates.
Adventure and Experience
YANGTSE INCIDENT by Lawrence Earl. (Knopf, $3.00.) The entrapment of the British frigate Amethyst under Chinese Communist fire for 101 days in 1949, and her escape down the river to Hong Kong.
THE DARK AND THE DAMP by Jock Wilson.
(Dutton, $3.00.) A stirring autobiography, winner of the 1950 Avery Hopwood Major Award, by a self-educated miner, poet, boxer, and Marine.
MIRACLE AT KITTY HAWK: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright edited by Fred C. Kelly.
(Farrar, Straus & Young, $6.00,) The day-to-day account of the conquest of flight, parts of which appeared in the Atlantic, is now available complete in book form. Mr, Kelly is the authorized biographer of the Wright Brothers.
CLIMBS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES by Frank S. Smythe. (Norton, $4.50.) The ruggedness and remoteness of the great Northwest and its abundance of game lend a wild interest to this account by an Alpinist of international reputation.