IN PLACE OF SPLENDORConstancia de la MoraHarcourt, Brace ($3).
THE LINCOLN BATTALIONEdwin Rolfe Random House ($2.50).
Constancia de la Mora was born in Madrid, in 1906. Her grandfather Don Antonio, an old man of majestic beauty, was Spain's greatest statesman; and she was subjected to the petrifying education which was the privilege of females of her class. When she was 20, in spotless ignorance, she married a pathic provincial nearly seven feet tall, who gave her a daughter and lived off her money.
She left him in 1931 and, like Spain, began a new chapter...