Books: South America

IMPRESSIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA— André Siegfried—Harcourt, Brace ($2). André Siegfried has made a name for himself as a critical visitor, not only of the U. S. but of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. French to the core (which thinks itself sounder than that of any other nation) he looks about him in his travels with a penetratingly shrewd eye. On a swift tour of South America two years ago he wrote a series of diary letters to friends in France, telling what he thought about what he saw. Collected, they make a short...

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