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...FOXGLOVE SAGA (252 pp.)-Auberon Waugh-Simon & Schuster...
HOUSEHOLD GHOSTS (187 pp.)- James Kennaway-Atheneum...
...TALENT FOR LOVING (267 pp.)- Richard Condon-McGraw-Hill...
REMBRANDT, by Gladys Schmitt (657 pp.; Random House; $5.95), is a fictional retelling of the relatively few known facts about Rembrandt van Rijn's life. Novelist Schmitt (David the King, The Gates of Aulis) scraped every document, household inventory, drawing, etching and painting for underlying drama-and added countless tableaux of her own, which unfortunately look more like the sentimental Dante Gabriel Rossetti than Rembrandt...
JIMMY RIDDLE, by Ian Brook (317 pp.; Putnam; $3.95) has as its hero the Walter Mitty ideal of every British public-school boy who grew up to be a frustrated colonial civil servant. Blond, bronzed and rugged, Jimmy Riddle is district commissioner of darkest Alabasa province in an unnamed British Colony in West Africa, a living legend to his fellow officers, and the sex-dreamboat of their wistful wives. In the end, Riddle turns against his own bumbling government, gets together with the Balabasa of Alabasa, the paramount chief and head of the Python Cult, and declares Alabasa an independent...