Books: Hearty Misadventures

DEFY THE FOUL FIEND-John Collier-Knopf ($2.50).

On a tag of Shakespeare (''Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend"&151; King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a...

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