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...tried to make him ambassador to The Netherlands, Greece or Argentina, but all three governments refused to accept him because Molotov obviously did not enjoy the confidence of his own regime. While serving his Outer Mongolian exile, he suffered further ignominy: his name was dropped from the latest Soviet encyclopedia...
...CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND CRIMINALS (351 pp.)-Edited by Sir Harold Scott-Hawthorn...
Such bits are themselves the birdseed scattered through The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminals, the agreeable useless information that spices its usefulness. For the layman-though the specialist, whether on the bench or behind bars, may differ-the book commits no editorial high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency, British bias, together with some doubtless conscious sins of omission. If it fails to canvass its subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons...
LAROUSSE GASTRONOMIQUE, by Prosper Montagné (1,101 pp.; Crown: $20). In this large, well-illustrated American edition of the famous French encyclopedia of food and cooking are recipes for almost everything edible, definitions of culinary terms, and such curiosa as a description of what Louis XIV liked to eat for dinner (the fifth course consisted of various fresh-water fish cooked in pastry, and was intended to remove the taste of the larks, ortolans, thrushes, capons, woodcocks, young turkeys, young hares, sweetbreads, ham, forcemeats, hot pâtés and fritures that had preceded it). Its completeness...
Auspitz: One can appreciate true Continental spontaneity without in dulging in it oneself, Sokolov. Look, the encyclopedia salesman has just knocked over the glass for the fourth time...