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...DUCE (367 pp.)-Christopher Hibbert-Little Brown...
...DONKEYS, by Alan Clark (216 pp.; Morrow; $4). "The English fight like lions," said German General Ludendorff...
...CONSCIENCE OF LOVE, by Marcel Ayme (253 pp.; Atheneum; $4.50). At one time or another, veteran Author Marcel Ayme, 60, has been sweepingly accused of being pro-and anti-1) fascist, 2) Semitic, 3) Christian, and 4) Communist. Shy and almost inarticulate in person, Author Ayme on paper fires volubly in all directions and at all available targets. In this new novel, his first in twelve years, he is at his pyrotechnical best as he blasts away at contemporary love, sex, crime, big business and middle-class morality. His hero is a 20th century descendant of Candide, a young Parisian...
TWENTY-ONE STORIES, by Graham Greene (245 pp.; Viking; $3.95). Any new book by Graham Greene, the British alchemist skilled at transmuting complex metaphysical problems of guilt and God into goose flesh, is a literary event. But Twenty-One Stories is also a tribute to publishing ingenuity. The present bouquet of Greenery has been compiled simply by taking a 1949 collection called Nineteen Stones, throwing out one, and adding three. The old stories are still able to trouble the sleep. The three new ones are predictably grim, and well up to the author's average-one good, one excellent...
SCRUFFY, by Paul Gallico (299 pp.; Doubleday; $4.50). Scruffy was a Barbary ape and, according to Writer Paul Gallico, the male animal that did most to turn the tide of World War II. Gallico invented him and his doings from a single shred of fact: during the war Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued orders that the ape population of Gibraltar be preserved, in deference to the legend that when the last ape leaves the rock, the British will, too. The monkey tricks that roll out of Gallico's typewriter are frantic but predictable. The crisis, brought on by fifth...