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...descendant writes income tax returns-as a matter of course, and with considerable imagination. Author Mossiker has made clever use of these circumstances in retelling the story of the famed diamond necklace theft that threw France into an uproar during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The reader is invited to discover the truth of the affair-something never established beyond doubt-from a crosscutting of contradictory memoirs and trial briefs, most of them entertainingly libelous. The puzzle is a good one, although the passages selected by the author are sometimes overlong, and most attempted solutions leave...
...READER'S GUIDE TO LITERARY TERMS (230 pp.)-Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz-Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy...
...HUBRIS at a literary cocktail party ought to buy this splendidly written dictionary. Without being exactly a manual for the uncertain intellectual, it does live up to its blurb ("not only useful but enjoyable"). If a great many of the hundreds of terms seem Greek to the reader, the reason is that a great many of them are, for the Greeks were first in the study of rhetoric-the rules, classifications and terms for various kinds of literary enterprise...
...tried him before. And from there to the powerful ending, Stark suffers the agonies of a man who has tied himself unwillingly, irrevocably, to a wretched fellow human whose claim is based subtly on weakness. Author Matthiessen has successfully brought off something more than a war novel. The reader cannot avoid thinking of all the Raditzers he ever knew; he may even dwell uneasily, however briefly, on the Raditzer-Charlie Stark amalgam in himself...
...Jencks' recent article on Church-State relations ('Congress Shall Make No Law...') provides the reader with such a potpourri of conflicting opinion that there is some danger that he may have missed the very valid point of the article...