THE SQUARE PEG John Masefield-Macmillan ($2.50).
Frampton Mansell munitions manufacturer, art patron, bachelor, a snappy dresser who cultivated his whiskers to bring out his resemblance to Sir Francis Drake. His phobia was ineficiency; his favorite pastime, composing ads for the latest wrinkle in Mansell ma-chine guns: "Mansell's Deadly Death Rose". . . A child can use it . . . Invaluable to all Dictators . . . A Corpse for a Ha'penny. . . .
Mansell buys a dilapidated Tudor country house as a wedding present for his beautiful, sweet-tempered fiancée Margaret. When he...