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...THIS HOUSE ON FIRE (507 pp.]-William Sfyron-Random House...
...LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (2 vols., 444 pp. & 420 pp.)-edited by James Franklin Beard-Belknap Press of Harvard University...
...WARD, by Jacoba van Velde (120 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3), a major literary success in Europe, is an uncommonly honest novel about the ordinary death of an ordinary old woman. In it, Dutch Author Jacoba van Velde manages to skirt the standard literary paths to death-cynicism, hysteria, indifference and bravado. Her setting is an old-women's nursing home, and in it the place to avoid is the big ward. To be moved there from the little ward, which beds only six, is a sure sign that the doctors have sighted the end; to be switched from...
...CHAPMAN REPORT, by Irving Wallace (371 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50), fills an unfelt need for a peeping tome to set beside Peyton Place. Dr. Chapman is an all but sexless biologist who has extended his studies of the lemur and marmoset to the sex habits of U.S. males and females. With his worshipful male research team, Chapman invades "The Briars," an upper middle-class Los Angeles suburb, to do interviews for A Sex History of the American Married Female. Expectedly, all the watched sexpots in The Briars boil over, either during the interviewing sessions or in uncontrolled experiments. Among...
MIGUEL STREET, by V. S. Naipaul (222 pp.; Vanguard; $3.95), recalls the fact that, by some twist of mind or diet, the inhabitants of Trinidad speak English in a way that startles and delights the ear. They have this in common with nonprofessional speakers of Irish English (the barroom Irish of Manhattan's Third Avenue are tedious professionals) and with the talkers of Elizabethan England, if their playwrights bear true witness. In writing about such magnificent lingoists, color threatens to overwhelm shape, as it very nearly did in Naipaul's roguish first novel, The Mystic Masseur. In these...