Books: Back to the Cauldron

INSIDE EUROPE TODAY (376 pp.)—John Gunther—Harper ($4.95).

John Gunther, who still has to go Inside Australia, instead spent last summer on hauntingly familiar territory. Hopping from capital to capital, filleting his sources like sole meuniere, he wrung a wholly new book from the beat where he first made a name with Inside Europe a quarter-century ago. In Inside Europe Today he surveys the new faces and altered conditions of a continent that has "immeasurably, fantastically" changed since 1936. The most striking change he found is one that makes Inside Europe Today a less urgently...