Book News: Literary Lovers, Covers Across the Pond: The New Yorker Company for a lonely Valentine's Day: Elizabeth Powers with the story of Constance Wilde, Oscar's often-forgotten wife. Terry Deary, author of the "Horrible Histories" series, argues that libraries are "no longer relevant" and actually harm authors and the public. A comparison of the cover art for U.S. and U.K. editions. "SQUALID SYDNEY WOMBAT (M), striking natural dirty digger seeks beckoning, foxy NYC squirrel (F) for trans-Antipodean roo, pert exchanges, and postmodern "Murdoch-She-Wrote" contemplations of retrospectives in hot metal prints." Catherine Tice, associate publisher of the New York Review of Books, discusses that magazine's infamously highbrow personal ads. Everything, down to the last comma, had to be left as it was, even where - an admitted rarity - improvement was possible. John Simon on editing Jacques Barzun. A Brooklyn school plans to change its name to honor Maurice Sendak. Is this a recording of Walt Whitman reading his poem "America"?