Books: Subjective Camera

TRAVELS IN TWO DEMOCRACIES—Ed-mund Wilson—Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Records like Mark Sullivan's Our Times are valuable, as any competently edited newsreel is valuable. But, mechanics and editing aside, the strength and weakness of any newsreel is the man behind the camera. A purely objective view may not be misleading but it often leads nowhere. The widespread popularity of such subjective photography as Walter Duranty's I Write As I Please, Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's Inside Europe, Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor are strong indications that many an individual still regards the...