Books: The Editors Like

BLUE TROUT AND BLACK TRUFFLESby Joseph Wechsberg. (Knopf, $3.75.) This book bounces amusingly from wine list to menu, covering the travels of an epicure who began as the sort of brat that refuses to eat anything but cream puffs and has become a writer who can ail but drive his readers wild with hunger.

FABULOUS SPAINby James Reynolds. (Putnam, $7.50.) Mr. Reynolds paints his way through Spain in the fine old romantic fashion, collecting vistas, architectural glories, comic episodes, and picturesque history, and compiles a most beguiling book.

THE WORLD REVISITEDby Stephen Longstreet. (Holt, $3.75.) Shooting background for a movie that never was made took Mr. Longstreet across Europe, stranded him in China, sidetracked him to Africa, and brought him home, miraculously solvent, via Hawaii. His observations en route are disillusioned and satirical, but vivid and continually interesting.

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINby Janies Baldwin. (Knopf, $3.50.) In working up to a Negro boy’s first, and very violent, religious experience, the author reveals the iives and characters of his family with great skill and in a remarkably powerful prose.

THE PLANTATIONby Ovid Williams Bierce. (Doubleday, $3.00.) The troubles of the female relatives that Mr. Ed inherited along with the plantation consumed his entire life. The novel describes his ladyridden career gently, sympathetically, with a fine sense of family complication and interdependence.

ZORBA THE GREEKby Nikos Kazantzakis. (Simon & Schuster, $3.50.) There’s a plot of sorts here, having to do with the anonymous narrator’s mine, hut the book is carried by Zorba himself, an indomitable old ruffian who remains eternally young, inventive, humorous, cruel, loyal, and irresponsible. He’s a truly epic creation.

RECOLLECTIONS OF ANDRÉ GIDEby Roger Martin du Gard. (Viking, $2.75.) As an old friend, Mr. du Card could enjoy Gide the eccentric with no loss of respect for Gide the genius. Sharp, amused, affectionate, his memoir of the great man is delightful.

THE HILLS ARE STRONGby Rollo Walter Brown. (Beacon Press, $3.50.) Memories of childhood in a mining town, of Harvard, of teaching, lecturing, and travel, are here woven into a pleasant chronicle of the past sixty years of American life.

THREE GREAT IRISHMEN: SHAW, YEATS, JOYCEby Arland Ussher. (Devin-Adair, $3.00.) With no set. thesis to prove, the author comments wittily and arbitrarily on his great countrymen, underlining some unusual points.

ROBERT BROWNINGby Betty Miller. (Scribner’s, $5.00.) An accomplished, well-written biography which produces impressive evidence that Browning married Elizabeth Barrett, not in a spirit of bustling knighterrantry, but because the limitations of his own nature made her necessary to him.