Books: Little Pitchers

AROUND THE WORLD IN ELEVEN YEARS —Patience, Richard and John Abbe—Stokes ($2).

James E. Abbe (rhymes with tabby) is a professional U. S. cameraman (free lance) whose curious business and nomadic ways call him from one country to another at short notice. His wife is comely onetime Actress Polly Platt. In Paris, eleven years ago, the first of their three children was born. Around the World in Eleven Years is a child's-eye-view of the family's subsequent travels, written, so Parents Abbe aver, entirely by the children; and printed unchanged, except for corrections in spelling. Readers last week were whooping with delight...