Books: Vagabond Monk

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RABELAIS—Anatole France—Holt ($5). THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS, AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND His SON PANTA-GRUEL—trans, from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.—Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais—scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture...