BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief WHEN THE FRENCH WERE HERE, by Stephen Bonsai. (Doubleday, $3). Col. Bonsai served as a war correspondent as long ago as the Bulgarian-Servian War of 1885. Since then, he has missed...
...Cronin's deeply human story of a Scotch boy's youth is deservedly a best seller...
...Lifelike people and adolescent experiences that will stir many a personal recollection...
...The list includes Clare Boothe, Moss Hart, Cole Porter, Larry Adler, Helen Hayes, Gilbert Miller, and Lillian Hellman...
...It isn't formal history, but it throws some light on Lafayette, and gives glimpses of Washington as he appeared to the eyes of the visiting soldiery...
...His latest book is the result of an excursion through the documents of a long-forgotten campaign—the march of Rochambeau's soldiers, in 1781, from Narragansett Bay to Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown...
...THE GREEN YEARS, by A. J. Cronin (Little, Brown, $2.50...
...W. B. H. * * * TAKE THEM UP TENDERLY, by Margaret Case Harriman (Knopf, $2.75...
...Since then, he has missed hardly a war or a revolution in any part of the world, and he has embodied his observations in many books...
...It is an interesting volume, filled with the human-interest stories, the out-of-the-way news, the sidelights, and the shadows that one might expect from an expert correspondent...
...A clever, light book, beautifully printed, with an amusing introduction throwing light on how New Yorker profiles are written...
...This is a collection of personality sketches—"profiles"—which, except for one on Oscar Hammerstein II, originally appeared in the New Yorker...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 14
