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LAUGH TILL You CRY, by Wolf Mankowitz (127 pp.; Dutton; $2.50), puts a shipwrecked English drummer on a tropical island and leaves him there when he makes the discovery that he never had it so good. When Ronald Rantz comes ashore, he takes with him his salesman's sample case. His stock in trade: exploding cigars, invisible itching powder, the usual assortment of smoking-car killers that are guaranteed to make you "Laugh Till You Cry." The island, a between-trade-routes speck somewhere near the Caribbean, looks like paradise, but the seemingly innocent natives soon prove...
...HISTORY OF COURTING (290 pp.)-E. S. Turner-Dutton...
GLADSTONE (482 pp.)-Philip Magnus -Dutton...
...addition to this one-volume edition of Wilde's collected works, bookstores offer a collection of his bright sayings (The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde; John Day; $4) and a half-personal, half-literary memoir by his son, who took the name Vyvyan Holland (Son of Oscar Wilde; Dutton; $3.75). All of these anticipate the centenary of Wilde's birth (1856). Is he worth rereading? Much of his work is, and almost all is worth at least re-browsing...
EVEREST, compiled by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (Dutton; $7.50), and THE PICTURE OF EVEREST, edited by Alfred Gregory (Dutton; $10), are two of the best picture books on the subject, the first dealing with the luckless Swiss attempts in 1952, the second an all-color stunner on the successful British expedition...