Books: The Editors Like

Of Stars and Men BY HARLOW SHAPLEY

Cosmography (the study of practically everything) for the layman, who despite Dr. Shapley’s reassurances may find himself pretty breathless out there on the frontiers of the expanding universe. BEACON, $3.50.

Our Nuclear Future BY EDWARD TELLER AND ALBERT L. LATTER

An informative summary of the present achievements and probable future of nuclear power, presented with a resolute good cheer that is sometimes rather trying. CRITERION, $3.50.

Science and Human Values BY J. BRONOWSKI

The author makes a convincing and eloquent case for his belief that scientific advance depends on the same kind of creative imagination that produces art. MESSNER, $3.00.

Ten Seconds from Now BY KAY CICELLLS

Restrained, melancholy, but unfailingly interesting account of affairs in a Greek radio station where everyone is unlucky in love. GROVE, $1.45.

I’m Not Stiller BY MAX FRISCH

Or is he? Humor, melodrama, and ingenuity expended on the currently popular questions of identity and isolation. ABELARD-SCHUMAN, $4.50.

Snared Nightingale BY GEOFFREY TREASE

Fine old-fashioned historical frippery, romance, humor, and suspense neatly combined in the story of an Italianate scholar who inherits an unexpected and barbarous earldom on the Welsh marches in the days of Edward IV. VANGUARD, $3.75.

Among the Savages of the South Seas BY CAPTAIN ALFRED TETENS

Memoirs of Micronesia, 1862—1868, by a German seaman and adventurer with a sharp eye and a great interest in people, whose record of his experiences is remarkably lively and readable. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, $3.75.

The Lost World of the Caucasus BY NEGLEY FARSON

Back in 1929, Mr. Farson made a horseback trip to the Caucasus which must have been one of the most strenuous and delightful excursions of all time, DOUBIEDAY, $4.00.

Arabesque and Honeycomb BY SACHEVERELL SITWELL

Concentrating on the art of the region, ancient and less so, Mr. Sitwell takes his readers on an enthusiastic and informative tour of the Near and Middle East. Enchanting photographs. RANDOM HOUSE, $6.00.