Elizabeth Langhorne

Mishima, or the Vision of the Void. By Marguerite Yourcenar. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $13.95. Two Lives and a Dream. By Marguerite Yourcenar. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $16.95. The work of Marguerite Yourcenar is noted for crossing boundaries of spa [...]

The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and the Products of Craftsmen, 1560—1860. By Jessie Poesch. Knopf. $50.00. In one splendid volume, Jessie Poesch has managed to sum up this whole matter of a special Southern art. Since [...]

The Autumn of the Patriarch, By Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. Translated from Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Harper & Row. $10.00. GABRIEL Garcia-Marquez addresses himself, unerringly, to the great subjects of our age. One Hundred Years of Solitude used a t [...]