THE VAGRANT MOOD: SIX ESSAYS (250 pp.) W. Somerset Maugham Doubleday ($3).
"My days as a professional writer are over," said Somerset Maugham in 1948. "I'm putting up the shutters, shutting up the shop. After all, I'm 75 next birthday . . . But if I think of an occasional little piece, I will write it." Since then, Somerset Maugham (now 79) has published his notebooks and thought of a few little pieces.
They appear in The Vagrant Mood, a slim volume of urbane table talk ranging from the decline of the detective...
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