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KING JESUS (424 pp.)-Robert Graves -Creative...
This week, in an introduction to a new edition of Brave New World (Harper, $2.50; 311 pp.), Novelist Huxley casts a cold eye over his fantasy, firmly classes it among "the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth." It is now too late, says Author Huxley, to try and "patch up" Brave New World; all that can be done is to investigate its conclusions. Some fresh findings...
JOURNEY DOWN A BLIND ALLEY (364 pp.) -Mary Borden-Harper...
...PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY (653 PP-)-Edited by Louis Kronenberger -Knopf ($5). Subtitled "An Anthology of Civilized Writing" this is a connoisseur's selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...
HOTEL BEMELMANS (380 pp.)-Ludwig Bemelmans-Viking ($3). Most of the best of Bemelmans: 36 deft, witty stories of backstairs life in a plush Manhattan hotel, from earlier Bemelmans books (including all the stories in Hotel Splendide and Life Class), with three new stories added; lavishly decorated with the author's own chichi illustrations...