Books: Foreign Exchange

THEY WERE STILL DANCING—Evelyn Waugh—Cape & Smith ($2.50).

When precociously successful Author Evelyn Waugh (pronounced Waw) set England snickering with his Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, his remarks began to be of interest to literary gossips. When he said he hoped some day to write the perfect travel book, knew just how it should be written; when last year he went to Abyssinia for Ras Tafari's coronation (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930), Waugh-minded readers looked forward to a treat. Here it is—perhaps not the perfect travel book, but sufficiently Waughmsical, refreshingly out of the ordinary.

Says Author Waugh, the only historical parallel to...