Books: Only Gliding

NOT TO EAT, NOT FOR LOVE—George Anthony Weller—Smith & Haas ($2.50).

"Went yesterday to Cambridge and spent most of the day at Mount Auburn; got my luncheon at Fresh Pond, and went back again to the woods. After much wandering and seeing many things, four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see—not to eat not for love, but only gliding. . . ." Thus patly comes a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journal to supply a title for a novel about Harvard. Good novels of U. S....