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...DARK GLASSES (183 pp.)-Francis King-Pantheon...
...oddest religion in the East, and the one with the most catholic pantheon, is known as Cao Dai. Founded in Saigon in the 19205, it numbers among its archangels Victor Hugo, Joan of Arc, Sun Yat-sen and Clemenceau, and boasts some 2,000,000 adherents, a private army and a pope. But Cao Dai's voluble, bright-eyed little Pope Pham Cong Tac was never able to resist meddling in secular matters. Tossing his 15,000-man army now on one side, now on the other in the delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring...
...further Jewish-Christian understanding in Europe before he was forced to flee the Nazis during World War II. In 1953 he founded the institute with the encouragement of some of the top Catholic scholars in the U.S. and abroad. One result: The Bridge, a Yearbook of Judaeo-Christian Studies (Pantheon; $3.95), the first in a series that will review the relationship between Christians and Jews in history, philosophy, theology, the arts...
...BARBER (572 pp.)-Forrest Reid -Pantheon...
YOUNG TÖRLESS, by Robert Musil (217 pp.; Pantheon; $2.95), helps explain one of history's more interesting paradoxes: how a civilization outwardly, as gay and waltzy as 19th century Austria could produce the stark theories and dark case histories of Vienna's Dr. Sigmund Freud. Austria's late Novelist Robert Musil, known in the U.S. for his ponderously brilliant masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities (TIME, June 8, 1953; Nov. 15, 1954), had a sharp eye for the moral decay behind Vienna's comfy façades. His first novel, brought...