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What the captain wanted the News to be is laid out in lavish detail in Tell It to Sweeney (Doubleday; $4.95), an affectionate excursion through the News's past conducted by its longtime Drama Critic John Chapman. (The title derives from a series of early News advertisements that projected the paper's strong working-class appeal and urged Manhattan merchants to "Tell it to Sweeney; the Stuyvesants will take care of themselves.") How well the captain's survivors have fulfilled their pledge to run things his way can be measured in the continued success of the nation...
...JOURNEY TO MATECUMBE, by Robert Lewis Taylor (424 pp.; Doubleday; $5.95), like the author's Pulitzer prize-winning Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, is a parody that echoes Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi. Basically, it is a stunt that may appeal to fanciers of literary ventriloquism. Like Tom Sawyer, Davey Burnie is an orphan with a pesky aunt who keeps scrubbing out his ears. Like Huck, Davey has a Negro pal, name of Commercial Appeal. Unfortunately. Commercial Appeal is killed in an early burst of Ku Klux Klan violence in Kentucky in the 1880s and cannot...
...REASON (433 pp.)-Harold Nicolson-Doubleday...
...ODYSSEY (474 pp.) - Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald -Doubleday...
...narrative as was British Poet-Professor C. Day Lewis' Aeneid. Within his chosen limitations, Fitzgerald has succeeded brilliantly. He can be read at a fast clip, with the breath taken at the almost natural intervals of a relaxed but eloquent after-dinner entertainer with an unusually good scriptwriter. Doubleday has backed him up with good type and Picasso-style illustrations by Hans Erni. Fitzgerald did not underestimate the staggering intellectual difficulties of Englishing Homer. Literally, the first line of The Odyssey would read in English...