ALBERT AND THE BELGIANSCharles d'YdewalleMorrow ($3).
To most U. S. readers the plight of modern royalty, striving to preserve royal hauteur while controlling squabbling politicians, is closer to high comedy than to tragedy. But to Author Charles d'Ydewalle, Belgian journalist and intimate friend of the late King Albert, the career of at least one modern monarch can properly be termed tragic. In another period of the world's history Albert might have reigned at peace with his subjects, won fame as an intellectual who had studied Marx, Machiavelli, Taine, kept up with modern literature to...