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...Gift from Above. Now living near Peekskill, N.Y., in a home overlooking the Hudson, Copland still devotes some of his time to "diagnosing" scores submitted to him by young composers. His fourth book of thoughtful musical commentary, Copland on Music, is being published by Doubleday this week. A fairly consistent concertgoer, Copland rarely listens to recordings because he finds it discouraging that a record always sounds the same. "It would never occur to me," says he, "to sit down and listen to a Beethoven symphony. Recordings are really for people who live in Timbuktu...
POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE (308 pp.)-Noel Coward- Doubleday...
ROBE OF HONOUR, by Alexander Cordell (384 pp.; Doubleday; $4.50), is a costume romance, and usually such books have almost no resemblance to legitimate novels. Ordinarily it is possible to judge each sort according to its own standards: Do broadswords and bustlines glitter sufficiently in the one, are reality's fore and backside faithfully drawn in the other? But now and then a writer with the skill of a Robert Graves succeeds in mixing the two styles. Author Cordell once again attempts the trick with some fairly entertaining results, but he is no Graves...
...DAYS WERE Too SHORT (335 pp.) -Marcel Pagnol-Doubleday...
...unusually backward-has meant a proliferation of textbooks on the same subject at different levels. Holt now has four college freshman mathematics texts replacing what was once a single staple freshman algebra. From teaching electronic computers what to do man is learning new ways to teach himself: Doubleday and Harcourt this year published textbooks utilizing novel computer techniques to teach children subjects such as English...