Love by the Book

L'AMOUR OR THE ART OF LOVE--Paul Geraldy--Button ($1). A realistic Frenchman, Author Geraldy here lectures on what most Anglo-Saxons would call profane love. But he titillates no libidinous itch in this little monograph of precepts. Here is a plenty of theory but no rules of thumb. Many a bewildered Babbitt might profit by one or another of these Gallic apothegms. For example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more than that." No Columbus, Author Geraldy is more a maker of neat maps. The cartography of these disputed regions is still vague; such map-making fills a need. Without telling you anything new, he often makes you aware of what you already know, gives details as positively and clearly as the motorist's Blue Book. "Women invented love, and men fidelity. No! this is not a paradox. The strongest man hides within him a shamefaced sentimentalist, and the weakest woman a stern realist." Author Paul Geraldy, 45, aphorist. playwright, poet, sometimes called "the de Musset of the 20th Century," is author of Toi et Moi, once largest-selling book of poetry. He has seen many a play of his produced at the Comedie FranC,aise. His wife (stage name: "Mme Lubin") is a onetime opera singer.

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