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PICASSO, by Frank Elgar and Robert Mailllard (315 pp.; Praeger; $5), is as ingenious as it is instructive. It follows the great Spaniard's endlessly experimental career from boyish leanings on older masters to the unpredictable individualist of old age who still defies simple analysis. The book does this in parallel critical and biographical commentaries that are expertly illustrated by the pictures appropriate to each page. A valuable attempt and this year's real bargain among art books...
...late great Ibn Saud has never deigned to publish a statement of his revenues and expenditures, nobody knows precisely what use he has made of the underground wealth that Allah bestowed on him. In The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers, published last week in Manhattan (Praeger...
FRANCE AGAINST HERSELF (476 pp.) -Herbert Luefhy-Praeger...
...SECRET FRONT (327 pp.)-Wilhelm Hoettl-Praeger...