Youngblood Hawke, by Herman Wouk. Doubleday, $7.95 “Compared with the labor of reading through these volumes, all other labor, the labor of thieves on the treadmill, of children in factories, of Negroes in sugar plantations, is an agreeable recreation. There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy, who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war in Pisa was too much for him. He changed his mind and went to the oars.”
—Macaulay on Nares’ Burleigh
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