Books the Editors Like

Nicholas Crabbe BY FR. ROLFE

Baron Corvo’s long-suppressed yowl against the writers, publishers, and patrons of Edwardian London now seems less libelous, and funnier, than he intended. A mad fellow, but most readable. NEW DIRECTIONS, $4.75.

The Land God Gave to Cain BY HAMMOND INNES

A stubborn laddie sets out to clear his father’s name in coldest Labrador, suspense and climate producing one long shiver, KNOPF, $3.95.

BY JAMES LEO HERLIHY

Short stories about some strange, sad people in California, done with a peculiar mixture of subtlety and bluntness, DUTTON, $3.50.

The Ancient Mariners BY LIONEL CASSON A sailor and classical scholar, Mr. Casson makes delightful work of this informal history of early seafarers in the Mediterranean, throwing in legend, archaeology, diagrams of ships, and the recipe for Greek Fire. MACMILLAN, $5.95.

Mexican Journal BY SELDEN RODMAN

Mr. Rodman, who has a gift for finding talkative artists, does particularly well in Mexico, and adds painters’ gossip and theory lavishly to his descriptions of landscapes and ruins. DEVIN-ADAIR, $6.00.

Flowering Lotus BY HAROLD FORSTER

Unhurried and affectionate, Mr. Forster makes life in Java sound like a perpetual garden party, while unobtrusively offering considerable information, LONGMANS, GREEN, $4.00.

This version of Twain’s wonderful and disorderly memories, edited by Charles Neider, has been arranged in chronological order and includes some material previously omitted. HARPER, $6.00.

The Civil War BY SHELBY FOOTE

The first of three volumes in which Mr. Foote proposes to tell the story of the Civil War as though it were a novel, with particular emphasis on individual character. Since that war was thick with remarkable men, the method pays off splendidly in amusing anecdote and military confusion, RANDOM HOUSE, $10.00.

Mount Hope BY GEORGE HOWE

The early history of Rhode Island is rich in smugglers, slave traders, confidence men, and similar gaudy scalawags, and Mount Hope harbored more than most places. VIKING, $5.00.