Books: Other People's Mail

A TREASURY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS — Edited by M. Lincoln Schuster—Simon & Schuster ($3.75).

M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster is the more breathless half of Publishers Simon & Schuster. For 25 years he has worked on an anthology of notable letters. But he has been too busy publishing other people's best-sellers to complete one of his own. He was also hampered by an embarrassment of riches. As friends sent him new finds, the Schuster letter collection swelled, at last filled "many mammoth volumes." Whenever he decided to publish, a new "irresistible"...