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DIVINE COMEDIES by JAMES MERRILL 136 pages. Atheneum...
...RICHARD HOWARD 77 pages. Atheneum. $4.95 paperback...
...ROBERT ARDREY 242 pages. Atheneum...
...sometime editor (Simon & Schuster, Atheneum) and sometime novelist (When the Bough Breaks, National Anthem), Richard Kluger has the special courage of the amateur: he is not afraid to be obvious. From the start, he argues, the Declaration of Independence was marred by a fundamental hypocrisy. All men were not created equal-if they happened to be black. More than 300 years after the introduction of slavery, nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Brown decision belatedly acknowledged this cruelly corrupting double standard. It focused on the nation's most sensitive testing ground of equality-the public schools...
...fine-lined wood engravings, Lawrence invests each miniverse with whimsy and bite (from "Inky Smudge": Judge, to "Noah's Ark": Park); his pageant of animals educates almost as much as it amuses. Perhaps the most diverting beast of the season is the dragon of Magic in the Mist (Atheneum; $4.95). Margaret Mary Kimmel's happy reptile-illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman-is the best igniter since the match...