Thus the hearties regarded him as an aesthete, and the aesthetes regarded him as a hearty: not, one may add, an entirely uncommon phenomenon. Stages is the story retold, plus women.
Aesop's fable of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" (Putnam, $11.95; paperback, $5.95) has been delightfully retold and illustrated by Lorinda Bryan Cauley.
The story of how BCCI used front men to secretly take over First American has been told and retold since the BCCI scandal blew open last summer.