Books: Love on a Barge

THE FOUR-CHAMBERED HEART (187 pp.) —Ana'is Nin—Due//, Sloan & Pearce ($2.75).

"Rango, when you kiss me the barge rocks."

Footloose Dancer Djuna was not the only one who was enthralled by Rango the Guatemalan Indian. Paris nightclub patrons who heard his songs "drank from his voice and his guitar." But it was Djuna who rented a barge on the Seine for him. There, while Djuna cried, "You are the God of Fire," and Rango kissed her feet, they "gave each other their many selves, avoiding only the more recent ones . . ."

The Four-Chambered...