Summer's Reading

Last spring Thomas Lamont and William Rose Benet filled the pages of The Saturday Review of Literature trying to define a capitalist. Last month, as an off shoot of that quarrel, Mr. Lamont contributed What a Capitalist Reads, a list of 14 books he had read during the summer, following his doctor's order to "take things more easily." The most topical, with Mr. Lamont's critical observations:

-- John P. Marquand's So Little Time "did me more good than all the liver ex tract and iron in the world."

-- Walter Lippmann's U.S. Foreign Pol icy: "If I have any criticism of the book, and it is a minor one, it is that in pointing out how effective Britain's naval might was in making the Monroe Doctrine effective . . . the author rather overlooks the immense help to Britain's aims . . . given by American good will and purpose."

-- Wendell Willkie's One World: "The secret of its immense success is that the reader at once finds that here is a world reporter who has an open mind, complete intellectual integrity, and an ardent desire to help along every part of the world in which he finds himself. . . ."

-- Ngaio Marsh's Colour Scheme: "People ask me why English spy stories are generally better than American. The answer is easy. . . . In both World Wars British Intelligence in and out of Germany had been excellent."

-- D. W. Brogan's The English People: "Brogan does wholeheartedly believe there is one thing that both England and America have in common. That is a sincere belief that 'righteousness' does in fact exalt a nation. And he seems to thank the Lord that both the Americans and British have come to realize that without each other the victory that we all deem is impending would not be possible."

-- Eve Curie's Journey among Warriors: "The best part of the book, to my mind, is devoted to the Russian scene. These pages seem to get closest to the heart of things, to give us that extraordinarily intimate and vivid picture of what sublime sacrifice the men and women were making to save the country dear to their hearts."

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