Briefly Noted

Professor of Romance Languages at Queens College, N. Y., Gregory Rabassa '44 is the translator of two Latin-American novels reviewed recently in The New YorkTimes. One is One Hundred Years of Solitude by the Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Harper & Row, $7.95), a family chronicle which is "a history not of governments or formal institutions, but of a people." The reviewer said the book "is so filled with humor, rich detail and startling distortion that it brings to mind the best of Faulkner and Günter Grass." The other novel is Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica-Lainez (Simon & Schuster, $10),. a Renaissance story which has been a best seller in Argentina. The Times reviewer wrote of it: "It has been rendered into English by the most talented of all translators of Latin-American fiction, Gregory Rabassa."

Wilton S. Sogg '56 is the co-author with Howard M. Rossen of revised 1970 editions of Evidence and Conflict of Laws in the Smith's Review Legal Gem Series. Evidence includes important new decisions, trends, and developments in all traditional areas of evidence law, including judicial notice, burden of proof, presumptions and inferences, examination of witnesses, opinion evidence, and so forth.

Conflict of Laws lists new material on the restatement, jurisdiction, choice of law, long arm statutes, domestic relations, corporations, et al. Both volumes are published by West Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minn.