Provocative

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER--Edward D. Toland-Applcton ($1.50). It is diploma time at schools and colleges. To be or not to be a lawyer, doctor, minister, engineer, policeman, taxidermist--that is the question of the gown-wearers. College questionnaires usually reveal some 20 to 40% of near-graduates who are "undecided." Author Toland, instructor at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.) and a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, rightly makes the point that, in an age of specializing, the hour for decision has struck before a boy leaves secondary school. In a few brief, provocative chapters that have more value than most college vocational guidance bureaus, he brings to youth's attention the nature and requirements of a score of careers, including college itself, as assayed by experts and attested by the experienced.