PHILLIPS RUSSELL’S “John Paul Jones: Man of Action” is such an improvement on his “Benjamin Frank-lin” that it can be described without exaggeration as one of the best modern American biographies. The ...
O RARE BEN JONSON—Byron Steel—Knopf ($3). “. . . Ben tries in vain to spear an eel with the newly-invented fork, and in exasperation flings the fork across the room. With his large hand he dips up ...