BLACK MISCHIEF Evelyn Waugh Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50).
What Aldous Huxley was to the generation still anxiously calling itself "young," Evelyn Waugh is becoming to the present. Less serious than Huxley but more religious (he has lately become a Roman Catholic), more scandalously funny but less satirical, he writes less like an insulated Englishman than like a French cosmopolite. Author Waugh recently traveled to Abyssinia, to Ras Tafari's coronation, wrote a disappointingly half-serious book about it (They Were Still Dancing, TIME, Dec. 14). In Black Mischief he returns to the...
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