Books: Morley's Revisions

THE TROJAN HORSE—Christopher Morley—Lippiucott ($2.50).

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS — Edited by Christopher Morley & Louella D. Everett—Little, Brown ($5).

Christopher Morley's first 41 books have been notable for affable after-dinner humor, a slightly ponderous display of undergraduate learning, a unique brand of lecture-platform whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance;...