As an adventure novelist, William F. Buckley has done it again with Who's on First?. For journals of opinion, aristocratic politics tend to become a drag after a few decades. But they are just the thing in the boys' books Buckley has been writing. I like Blackford Oakes, his hero, partly because nobody I know has a name remotely reminiscent. I admired his exploits in Saving the Queen in which to preserve freedom and save NATO he was compelled, respectfully, to administer sexual solace to the Queen of England. I enjoyed Stained Glass even more because the reverberations of the ancien régime were even more enticing. Well, friends, Blackie is the same upper-class Yalie and loyal C.I.A. agent as ever, a sucker for noblesse oblige, a soul strained taut by the conflicting pulls of personal honor and raison d'état. All three of these fantasies...