SCENT OF CLOVES (320 pp.)Norah LofhDoubleday ($3.95).
There is only one thing remarkable about this book: it smells. Evidently in the belief that the practice of reading has become hopelessly discredited, Doubleday has tried the desperate expedient of dousing Scent of Cloves in some odorous compound that purports to be scent of cloves. Whether packs of osmophile readers will go like beagles into bookstores snuffing the spoor is questionable.
Scent of Cloves is a lady's view of the time of Cromwell, and if Cromwell had been a lady, the view might have been true enough....
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