Books: The Editors Like

WITHIN THE TAURUS by Lord Kinross. (Morrow, $4.00.) Witty, learned, resilient, with a charming prose style and a sharp eye for both people and scenery, Lord Kinross is a traveler in the grand manner. His account of a trip along the Turkish-Russian frontier is such fun to read that, one can easily overlook its importance; in fact, very little reporting has come out of this territory of late.

THE LAND AND PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA by Alan Baton. (Lippincott, $2.75.) The facts of the history, culture, and present condition of South Africa are surveyed clearly and with remarkable skill in condensation. The style seems designed for children, unhappily.

TIBETAN MARCHES by Andre Migot. (Dutton, $5.00.) A serious student of Buddhism tells how he made a pilgrimage to Tibet and suffered from bandits, soldiers, officials, and the weather — all of these troubles making lively reading.

IONIA by Freya Stark. (Harcourt, $6.00.) In attempting to recover the qualities that made ancient Ionia a center of civilization, Miss Stark writes eloquently and provocatively of old Greece and modern Turkey.

Ladies‘ Day

THE WOMAN IN THE CASE by Edgar Lustgarten.

(Scribner’s, $3.00.) Descriptions of four women and the murder eases in which they were involved, all thoroughly entertaining.

ELIZABETH I by Donald Barr Chidsey. (Knopf, $2.50.) A short life of this devious, enduring queen may seem impossible, but Mr. Chidsey brings the project off with skill and with a spirited hitting of the high spots.

LAURETTE by Marguerite Courtney. (Rinehart, $5.00.) Lauretta Taylor’s life, written by her daughter, is painful, fascinating, and candid in a fashion almost unknown in theatrical memoirs.

Fiction

NECTAR IN A SIEVE by Kamala Markandaya.

(Day, $3,50.) Told with extreme simplicity, the story of an Indian tenant farmer’s family becomes both touching and enlightening.

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND by Flannery O’ Connor. (Harcourt, $3.50.) Miss O’Connor’s stimulating short stories combine naturalistic surface, symbolic theme, and events ranging from the flatly commonplace to the wildly improbable.

WE SHALL MARCH AGAIN by Gerhard Kramer.

(Putnam, $3.75.) Army life ruins even decent men, according to this solid, glumly effective German novel about the Second World War, which leaves the soldiers of the Third Reich without a single redeeming feature.