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SYLVA (256 pp.)-Vercors-Putnam...
BEETLES, by Ewald Reitter (205 pp.; Putnam; $20). The season's most beautifully photographed gift book is also the crawliest, and while there are doubtless many givees who will not be able to put it down, there are a good many more who will not be able to pick it up. But for amateur entomologists who can agree with the author that the Xixuthrus Heros Heer, a 5-in. pincher from the Fiji Islands, is handsome, the book could not be better...
GREAT HOUSES OF EUROPE, edited by Sacheverell Sitwell (318 pp.; Putnam; $19.95). All the sensations of aching feet and glazed eyes without leaving one's armchair: a photographic tour of Schlösser, villas and palaces, both grand and ghastly, built in the golden years of conspicuous consumption when the only foundations established by the rich were those intended to support their gilded dwellings...
...February poetry reading for an alleged "raw recital of filth"-was ending amid the sweet smell of vindication. A Manhattan judge who likes to "gamble on human beings" last week gambled on a suspended sentence for confessed Spouse-Assaulter Mailer. Simultaneously, Mailer's Manhattan publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons, was venturing a different sort of risk: release of the first collection of Mailer's scatological verse, under the title Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters...
...object of this catalogue of clouts, usually more affectionate than they seem, prefers to describe herself as "the gay illiterate," a tag she swiped from a magazine story and magnified into an autobiography in 1944. This week Louella Oettinger Parsons adds another hard-cover installment, Tell It to Louella (Putnam; $3.95), to the legend of a girl reporter who came out of Dixon, Ill., to spend nearly 40 years as the queen of movie journalism-and, indeed, of all Hollywood...