Foreign Faces

''I am,'' writes Mr. Pritchett, ''an offensive traveller''-meaning not that he is rude to porters, but that his praise of a country has sometimes been taken by its inhabitants as abuse or ridicule.

Be that as it may, his book, which is based upon sojourns in Spain, Turkey, Persia, and the Iron Curtain countries, will delight every English reader. Pritchett''s alert eye and relaxed manner, his flai...