Books: Sophoclecm Tragedy

FANFARE FOR ELIZABETH (227 pp ]—Edifh Slfwell—Macmillan ($2.50)

Henry VIII believed that his new bride, Anne Boleyn, was comparable to the finest products of the royal orchards—"a wife with a strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand—on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married...