Balanchine's Tchaikovsky, by Solomon Volkov (New York: Simon and Schuster) and Tchaikovsky's ballets: Swan lake, Sleeping beauty, Nutcracker, by Roland John Wiley (Oxford: Clarendon Press) reviewed by Joan Ross Acocella. The dance in mind: Profiles and reviews 1976-1983, by Deborah Jowitt (Boston: David R. Godine) reviewed by Elizabeth Zimmer.