EINSTEIN: A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY.

By William Cahn '34. New York: The Citadel Press, 1955. 128 pp. $1.50.

"You may read his life in his eyes as well as in his words," writes William Cahn '34 in his introduction to his latest volume. And as you leaf through the more than 200 photographs of Einstein collected by Mr. Cahn for this book, you become aware that Einstein's life, his thoughts, reactions, indeed his genius are mirrored in his eyes.

Mr. Cahn has done a remarkable job of selection, and his supplemental text is brief but extremely effective. Through reproduction of news clippings, photographs not directly connected with Einstein, and textual references, the author has placed Einstein in relation to the events that transpired during his lifetime.

A photographer friend who lived in Princeton and knew Einstein once told me: "Albert Einstein is a difficult man to photograph well, and he does not like to pose for photographers." If this is true, Mr. Cahn apparently has gathered all the best pictures of Einstein that have been taken, for the ones in this volume are superb.

Certainly this book meets the only real test of this kind of photo-biography in that it leaves the reader with a genuine desire to learn more about this man who has been acclaimed as one of the true geniuses of any age.