WITH the help of her Uncle Gerard, who by the greatest good fortune was Lord Stanley’s neighbor, Isabel had landed the Damascus Consulate for Richard. This had been their dream from the beginning and ...

SIR RICHARD BURTON’S WIFE — Jean Burton—Knopf ($3). This is the story no less of Isabel Burton than of her spectacular husband, translator of the Arabian Nights. But she was at least a match for him.

THREE more years of waiting stretched before Isabel Arundell — ‘only with this great change: before I was unloved and had no hope; now the shame of loving unasked was taken from me.’ Isabel admitted ...