Books: Honest Traveler

A SOUTHERNER DISCOVERS NEW ENGLAND — Jonathan Daniels — Macmillan ($3).

"The whole procession of the American years," says Jonathan Daniels, "has been illumined—or at least inflamed—with the works of men who hastened from the North to describe the South. Unfortunately there has been scarcely any perceptible movement from the opposite direction."

Mr. Daniels, 38-year-old editor of the Raleigh, N. C. News and Observer, author of A Southerner Discovers the South (TIME, July n, 1938), took the road north a year ago this spring. Gifted with a distinctly non-Northern journalistic ease, he has written...

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