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ROSS, THE NEW YORKER AND ME by Jane Grant. 271 pages. Reynal...
GOYA by Francisco Javier Sanchez Canton. 95 pages followed by 56 plates. Reynal. $100. Some of the double gatefold plates open out to more than 4 ft. in length. The typography is superb, the paper heavy. Each of the 193 reproductions was printed separately and with fanatic attention to accuracy of color, then pasted in. Goya is also a work of immense scholarship: the extensive text is by the director of Madrid's Prado Museum, who is the acknowledged Goya authority. Yet the book may prove curiously disappointing to those who are not specialists. Goya in his long lifetime...
MICHELANGELO'S LOST ST. JOHN by Fernanda de' Maffei. 150 pages. Reynal...
OTHER TASTES, OTHER BOOKS: For modern architecture buffs, The Best in 20th Century Architecture (Reynal; $15) is an effective if somewhat slick presentation of a worldwide range of buildings and their creators. For players, kibitzers, or even for collectors who hardly know QR3 from KB7, Chess by Hans and Siegfried Wichmann. (Crown; $15) is a comprehensive, pleasantly illustrated history of chess pieces. For those who like social history, Mirror of Fashion by Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf (McGraw-Hill; $26.50) is a copious survey of European costume from the French Revolution to 1929, while Leather Armchairs by Charles Graves (Coward-McCann...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF Music, by Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...