Books: The Dog Beneath the Skin

JACK LONDON'S TALES OF ADVENTURE (53 I pp.)—Edifed by Irving Shepard—Hanover House ($4.95).

Jack London, who is the most popular and widely translated U.S. author in Russia and Iron Curtain countries (according to UNESCO), first became famous just after the turn of the century with three stories—two about dogs and one about a man. They closely resembled each other. Buck was a Saint Bernard and the dog in all the world least likely ever to be drawn by James Thurber, who found life too tame on the trail in The Call of the Wild and joined a wolf pack. White Fang told...