Books: Good Will

SALSETTE DISCOVERS AMERICA-Jules Remains-Knopf ($2.50).

This book, by the tireless fabricator of Men of Good Will, is not one of the series; it is a graceful little vacation-piece on the old subject of The Visiting Foreigner. This time the foreigner is no charmer of women's clubs but a likable middle-aged Frenchman, the exiled professor Albert Salsette. He gets to Manhattan in the spring of 1941, and his old friend Jules Remains shows him around. They see little of that world outside Greater New York. But as far as they go, their sharp eyes,...

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