The Burglar

by Brigid Brophy. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $4.50. The Burglar is a clever play which, for no reason discernible in print, failed in London. The failure riled Miss Brophy into writing a preface, rather Shavian in both style and length, about art, critics, and her life with both. Her opinions are, as usual, independent and designed to provoke dissent.