SALUTE TO FREEDOM—Eric Lowe—Reynnal & Hitchcock ($2.75).
Reading fat, second-rate novels nowadays is like watching the wake of a ship: they stir up a lot of suds, produce a certain hypnotic effect, and a few hundred yards back, leave no trace at all.
Salute to Freedom churns thus for 615 pages. A life chronicle, it begins in 1902, ends last year. Between those dates Robin Stewart, son of a rich Australian ranchman, is a schoolboy, a university student, a ranch owner (75,000 acres), polo player, soldier, husband of an older woman who nags him and whom he drives insane, father of one illegitimate...
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