Briefly Noted

Associate Professor of English Peter A. Bien translated from the Greek the last novel by the great Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco (New York: Simon and Schuster. 1965. 512 pp. $7.50). This posthumously published work was described by the National Observer as "a magnificent testimony to a life and an art of surpassing significance" and by the SaturdayReview as a book which "must rank not only among his major works and as a key to all his others, but among the world's great apologia vitae." The reviewer for the latter journal had this comment on Professor Bien's translation: "Peter Bien is, I think, the best of Kazantzakis translators, but his own gentle and donnish nature is opposed to the master's rough-hewn and savage style."

Practical Handbook of Industrial TrafficManagement (Washington, D. C.: Book Division of The Traffic Service Corporation. 583 pp. $10.50), originally written by Richard C. Colton '25 in 1948, has been brought out in a completely rewritten fourth edition, now with a co-author, Edmund S. Ward. Included in this book on company freight transportation and policies are new chapters on Electronic Data Processing in Transportation and U.S. Government Traffic. The third edition was brought out seven years ago.