WINTER ix APRILRobert Nathan Knopf ($2). In his 13th novel Author Nathan's deft, gently ironic fantasynow working as smoothly as a zippershows to its usual advantage. He has not forfeited the compliment once paid him by Louis Bromfield. "There are," said Novelist Bromneld of the works of Novelist Nathan, "no books in the world so pleasant to read just before turning in."
THE THIRD HOURGeoffrey House-holdLittle, Brown ($2.50). This mixed up English story begins promisingly as a tale of revolutionary adventure and buried gold in Mexico, soon turns into a monotonous thesis...