A Selection of the Best Books of 1979

ALBERT CAMUS. A Biography. Ву Herbert R. Lottman. (Doubleday. $16.95.) The first biography the author of “The Stranger” is “exhaustive, a labor of love and of wonderful industry”

ALBERT EINSTEIN. The Human Side. Ву Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann. (Princeton. $8.95.) The scientist's secretary and a former colleague remember him with affection.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Ву Forrest McDonald. (Norton. $17.50.) An examination of Hamilton's policies as Secretary of the Treasury, supplemented by “a new interpretation of his personality.”

BERNARD BERENSON. The Making of a Connois- seur. Ву Ernest Samuels. (Belknap/Haryard $15.) A portrait of the young connoisseur that “fuses with and illumines our previous knowledge of the elderly В.В.”

BILLY GRAHAM. A Parable of American Right- eousness. Ву Marshall Frady. (Little, Brown. $12.95.) A portrait of the evangelist by the author of “Wallace” that accepts his innocence and stresses his close relationship to Richard Nixon.

BLOOMSBURY. A House of Lions. By Leon Edel. (Lippincott. $12.95.) A collective portrait of Virginia Woolf and company by the biographer of Henry James.

BREAKING RANKS. A Political Memoir. Bу Norman Podhoretz. (Harper & Row. $15.) An embattled account of his “long political journey from being a prominent advocate of the new left‐wing politics to becoming one of its foremost enemies” by the editor of Commentary.

THE BROTHERS MANN. The Lives of Hein- rich and Thomas Mann. By Nigel Hamilton. (Yale. $16.95.) A dual biography of the German sibling‐novelists.

CERVANTES. A Biography. By William Byron. (Doubleday. $14.50.) A thorough reconstruction of the great novelist's life and of his age, a work of “splendid breadth and rich humanity.”

CHARMED LIVES, A Family Romance. By Michael Korda. (Random House. $15.) An unsparing portrait of the author's uncle, Sir Alexander Korda, “the man most responsible for the creation of the British film industry.”

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD. A Critical Biography. By Brian Finney. (Oxford. $13.95.) A shrewd estimate of the prolific novelist's carr so far.

CONFESSIONS OF A CONSERVATIVE. By Garry Wills. (Doubleday. $10.) The political education of a journalist under the tutelage of St. Augustine and William Buckley's National Review.

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF W. E. B. DU- BOIS. Vol. III: Selections 1144‐118J. Edited by Herbert Aptheker. (University of Massachusetts. $22.50.) This volume completes the first collection of the correspondence of any black American. Dubois's career “embodied virtu- ally the whole of modern Afro‐American thought.”

D. H. LAWRENCE'S NIGHTMARE. The Writer and His Circle in the Years of the Great War. Ву Paul Delany. (Basic. $15.95.) “Absolutely first rate” for “its intimate rendering of Lawrence's wartime sufferings and its portrait of a whole generation of British writers.”

DIAGHILEV. By Richard Buckle. (Atheneum. $22.95.) A life of the modernist genius who “laid the groundwork for all the spectacular achievements Russian culture in the first three decades of our century.”

THE DIARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. Volume Two, 1920‐1924. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell assisted by Andrew McNeillie. (Harcourt Brace. $12.95.) A calm and productive period in the author's life. She seems here “a busy, social, honest, nice woman.”

THE DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHICAL QUOTATION. Of British and American Subjects. Edited by Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle. (Knopf. $25.) “Not memorable lines about a thousand topics but snippets from what famous people have had to say about each other. . . the back‐fence chatter of history.”

DRAWINGS AND DIGRESSIONS. By Larry Rivers with Carol Brightman. (Simon & Schuster. $9.95.) An autobiographical text about the artist's adventures in the New York art world, edited from tapes, “that is as revealing and entertaining as any in the literature of artists talking.”

THE DUKE OF DECEPTION. Memories of My Father. Bу Geoffrey Wolff. (Random House. $12.95.)

“harsh but affectionate portrait” of his father, a drifter, liar and petty criminal who passed himself off as an upper‐class snob.

THE EDUCATION OF CAREY McWILLIAMS. By Carey McWilliams. (Simon & Schuster. $11.95.) The political autobiography of the celebrated dissenter and former editor of The Nation.

EMPIRE. The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes. By Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele. (Norton. $15.95.) An impressively complete biography of the eccentric billionaire including his business triumphs and his descent into madness.

GLADSTONE. A Progress in Politics. By Peter Stansky. (Little, Brown. $9.95.) A masterly narrative of the Victorian Prime Minister's dramatic career.

THE HABIT OF BEING. By Flannery O'Connor. Letters Edited and With an Introduction by Sally Fitzgerald. (Farrar, Straus. $15.) A splendid book: one the great collections of American letters.

JAMES JONES. A Friendship. By Willie Morris. (Doubleday. $8.95.) A sweetly affectionate memoir the novelist's last years on Long Island and his death before the completion of “Whistle.”

JORGE LUIS BORGES. A Literary Biography. By Emir Rodriguez Monegal. (Dutton. $19.95.) A bioдra- phy or the passionately sedentary” author that usefully “fills in the background of Borges's literary life in Argentina.”

JOSEPH CONRAD. The Three Lives. By Frederick R. Karl. (Farrar, Straus. $25.) huge biography of the novelist.

LAUREN BACALL BY MYSELF. (Knopf. $10.95.) A dandy account of the actress's life and times, especially the times with Bogey.

THE LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE. Vol. I. Edited by James T. Boulton. (Cambridge. $29.50.) A comprehensive record of Lawrence's life up to the age o[ 28, as revealed in his impassioned, voluminous correspondence.

THE LETTERS OF LEWIS CARROLL. Vol. I. 1837‐1885. Vol. II. 1886‐1898. Edited by Morton N. Cohen with the assistance of Roger Lапсelyn Green. (Oxford. $60.) The vast correspondence of the author of “Alice in Wonderland,” “an extraordinary Victorian eccentric” who had a penchant for little girls..

THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. Vol. IV: 1929.1831. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman. (Harcourt Brace. $14.95.) In this volume, “with her established fame and authority she can allow herself to be less reticent. Her confessions are pointed and sometimes passionate.”

THE LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. Vol. V: 1932‐1985. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautrpann. (Harcourt Brace. $14.95.) This volume reveals the novelist's “light and bright and sparkling, incorrigibly mischievous” side.

A LION FOR LOVE. Ву Robert Alter. In col- laboration with Carol Colman. (Basic Books. $13.95.) A shrewd

assessment of Stendhal, “the most aggressively, destructively intelligent of the 19th-century French novelists.”

LUCKY EYES AND A HIGH HEART. The Life of Maud

Gouce. By Nancy Cardozo. (Hobbs‐Merrill. $15.) A “patient telling of the tumultuous life of [an] Irish Joan of Arc.”

THE MAN WHO KEPT THE SECRETS. Richard Helms and

the CIA. By Thomas Powers. (Knopf. $12.95.) The inside story of the C.I.A. Director's involve-

ment in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the secret war in Laos, the military coup in Chile and other clandestine operations.

MARINA. Letters and Diaries of Marina Sulzberger. Edited by C. L. Sulzberger. (Crown. $15.) The charming memoirs of The Times columnist's Greek wife, who viewed life with winning zest.

MARQUA D. An American Life. By Millicent Bell. (Atlantic‐Little, Brown. $17.95.) A biography that “gracefully shuttles between the public and private lives” of the popular novelist.

MEMOIR OF A GAMBLER. Ву Jack Richardson. (Simon & Schuster. 38.95.) The strange chronicle of a gamЫer'в obsessive odyssey from Las Vegas to the exotic casinos of the Far East.

MY WORK AND DAYS, A Personal Chronicle. Ву Lewis Munford. (Harcourt Brace. $13.95.) More of an “exhibition catalogue” of the 83-year-old Polymath's interests and achievements.

NANCY CUNARD. By Anne Chisholm. (Knopf. $15.) The hectic, affair‐crammed life of the rebellious English poet and avant‐garde publisher who belonged to the upper class and was enamored of the lower.

PRICK UP YOUR EARS. The Biography of Joe Orton. Ву John Lahr. (Knopf. $15.) The book helps us understand not only the homosexual playwright, but “much about the English theater since 1956 and a little bit about our own.”

THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By Edmund Morris. (Coward, McCann. 315.95.) His life leading up to the Presidency. “To an intrinsically interesting subject [the author] adds the two ingredients that so seldom Join: thorough research and vivid writing

THE SHAPING OF A BEHAVIORIST. Part Two of an Autobiography. By B. F. Skinner. (Knopf. $12.95.) The psychologist's progress from graduate study to professor, In_ cluding the development of the Skinner box.

SNAKES & LADDERS. By Dirk Bogarde. (Holt, Rinehart. $12.95.) The second volume of the film star's memoirs treats of his Army days, his celebrated friends, and his sudden acquisition of “fame and riches.”

SOUTH FORK. The Land and the People of Eastern Long Island. By Everett T. Rattray.

(Random House. $10.) A native's affectionate memoir of life from Southampton to Montauk, L.I., a 30‐mile strip of farmland, dunes and woods.

STRAVINSKY. In Pictures and Documents. By Vera Stravinsky and Robert Craft. (Simon & Schuster. $35.) An opulent, official, loving but “not Ь :yob” biography of the composer.

A STREAK OF LUCK. Bу Robert Conot. (Seaview. $15.95.) “A thrilling ... yet thoughtful account” of the life of Thomas Alva Edison by the author of “American Odyssey,” who had access to some Edison family correspoпdeпce.

TESTIMONY. The Memoirs of Dmitri Sitostakuvicb as Related to and Edited by Solomon Volkov. (Harper & Row. $15.) A dramatic, unhappy account of life under. Stalin and Khrushchev by “one of the world's most celebrated composers.”

TUMULTUOUS MERRIMENT. Ву Heywood Hale Braun. (Richard Marek. $8.95.) The memoir of a journalist who wrote on sports “until the S fell of( his typewriter.”

TURGENEV. Isis Life and Times. Ву Leonard Schapiro. (Random House. $15.95.) A “fascinating and important” biography of the first of the great Russian writers to be known lu the West.

W. H. AUDEN. By Charles Osborne. (Harcourt Brace. $17.95.) The first biography of the poet who had a generation named after him.

WHEN MEMORY COMES. Ву Saul Friedlander. (Farrar, Straus. $9.95.) The memoir of a Jewish orphan's preparation for the priesthood in Nazi‐occupied France, and his subsequent discovery of his true identity.

WHEN THE SHOOTING STOPS ... THE СU'ГГТNС BEGINS. A Film Editor`s Story. Ву Ralph RoseпЫ um and Robert Karen. (Viking. $12.95.) A diverting chronicle of a wellknown film editor's life and a history of his profession.

WHITE HOUSE YEARS. By Henry Kissinger. (Little, Brown. $22.50.) The former Secretary of State offers his version of recent diplomatic history —and of his own considerable part in it.

Children's Books

AFTER THE FIRST DEATH. Ву Robert Cormier. (Pantheon. $7.95. Ages 12 and Up.) Written in lean and graphic prose — and without a happy ending — a novel of terrorism and counterterrorism in which a busload of small children is held hostage.

ALL TOGETHER NOW. Ву Sue Ellen Bridgers. (Knopf. $7.95. Ages 12 and Up.) Casey's friendship with Dwayne, a man as old as her father (33) but as young in his mind as herself (12) is the heart of this extraordinary novel about love and caring.

THE DISAPPEARANCE. By Rosa Guy. (Delacorte. $8.95. Ages 12 to 16.) After a “respectabl e” family befriends a Harlem street kid who has been acquitted of murder, their youngest daughter disappears, in a complex, riveting novel.

THE GARDEN OF ABDUL GASAZI. Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. (Houghton Miffin. $8.95. Ages to 7.) Haunting, superbly drawn, faultlessly moody illustrations dominate the droll account of what happened, or didn't, when the playful dog that Alan Is minding runs into a manicured garden whose intimidating owner loathes dogs.

GOOD‐BYE, CHICKEN LITTLE. By Betsy Byars. (Harper & Row. $5.95. Ages 10 to 14.) Jimmie Little's despair at his uncle's drowning, just when the boy thinks he has gotten over his father's death in a mining аczldent, is shared and thus lightened by close family members, in this ultimately upbeat memorable short novel.

INSIDE MY FEET. The Story of a Giant. By Richard Kennedy. Illustrated by Ronald Himler. (Harper & Row. $7.95. Ages 9 to 12.) Two enormous boots with no one in them carry off a boy's parents and try to get him too, in this scary, exciting, amusing thriller by a giant among contemporary storytellers.

KING KRAKUS AND THE DRAGON. Written and illustrated by Janina Domanska. (Greenwillow. $8.95. Ages 4 to 7.) A clever lad outwits the monstrous beast that has been terrorizing King Krakus and the people of the city of Krakow in a brilliant retelling of an old legend, fully illustrated to capture the particular vitality of decorative Polish folk art.

THE LAST MISSION. By Harry Mazer. (Delacorte. $7.95. Ages 12 to 15.) A novel of rare force about a too‐young American Jewish boy who has lied his way into military service in World War II.

THE NEW YORK KID'S BOOK. 167 Children's Writers and Artists Celebrate New York City. (Doubleday. $8.95. Ages 8 and Up.) Nearly 400 pages of everything about New York. “One of the most delightful guidebooks to the city ever concocted.” OX‐CART MAN. Ву Donald Hall. Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. (Viking. $8.95. Ages 4 to 8.) As the seasons pass, an early 19th‐century New Hampshire farm family works to prepare for the farmer's annual trip to market, where he sells all his goods including the ox and cart that held them and walks home so the cycle can begin again, described in precise, simple prose and in pictures of breвthtaking minutia and scope.

THE PIG'S WEDDING. Written and illustrated by Helme Heine. (Atheneum/McEldemy. $7.95. Ages 4 to 7.) Curlytail and Porker say “I. do”; and here's all the to‐do — preparing, feasting and frolicking ‘ in exuberant watercolors.

STONEWALL. Ву Jean Fritz. Illustrated by Stephen Gammell. (Putnam's. $7.95. Ages 11 to 15.) An absorbing biography of the controversial Confederate general, one of our country's greatest, and oddest, heroes. “Lives of Jackson are plentiful ... but none, for all its brevity, surpasses Jean Fritz's.”

TURКEYLEGS THOMPSON, By Jean McCord. (Atheneum. $8.95. Ages 11 to 15. ) An angry, unhappy girl learns to live again after a summer of tragedy and humiliation in this compelling and compassionate novel.

WORDS BY HEART. Ву Оuidа Sebestyen. (Atlantic‐Little, Brown. $7.95. Ages H to 15.) Twеlыe-yеаг‐old Lena, whose family are the only blacks in a small southwestern town of 1910, reaches high, and overcomes, in this worthy first novel.

Crime

BIRDCAGE. By Victor Canning. (Morrow. $8.95.) British espionage, wheels within wheels, people as pawns, superb storytelling by a master of the genre.

THE BOTTICELLI MADONNA. By Richard Cox. (McGrawHill. $9.95.) A look at the way an important art dealer in London operates; plus murder with elements of espionage; plus fascinating information about old master paintings and their provenance.

THE GOERING TESTAMENT. By George Markstein. (Ballantine. $8.95.) British espionage again, in the best Eric Ambler tradition. Three governments desperately want to obtain a letter supposedly written by Hernxann Goering before his suicide.

GOLD BY GEMINI. By Jonathan Gash. (Harper & Row. $8.95.) The further adventures of Lovejoy, the British antiques dealer. Here he scгamЫ es for a big score, hoping to unearth s cache of British‐Roman coins. But the murder mystery is not neglected, and the solution is worked out in the grand tradition.

THE GREEN RIPPER. By John D. MacDonald. (Lippincott. $9.95.) Travis McGee again, out to avenge the murder of his girlfriend. The big man locates the terrorists who were responsible and wipes them out, one by one.

PARTY OF THE YEAR. By John Crosby. (stein and Day. $9.95.) The Incredible Rich in New York, an “impregnable” apartment house, an ex‐C.I.A. operative, and also a social message. Good escape reading.

THE 65TH TAPE. By Frank Ross. (Atheneum. $10.95.) An ex‐diplomat’ now heading a secret American agency, faces a conspiracy to end all conspiracies. Richard М. Nixon plays a part in this book — and a rather unexpected one.

THE TERMINATION ORDER. By Philip Friedman. (Dial/James Wade. $9.95.) American espionage in the Deighton style. An independent agent gets himself on the C.I.A. hit list, and also the K.G.B.'s. It is a gray world that is presented here, and the author makes It frighteningly convincing.

Current Affairs & Social Comment

ARABIA. A Journey Through the Labyrinth. By Jonathan Raban. (Simon & Schuster. $11.95.) An energetic and amusing, as well as perceptive, tour of some of the Arab oil states by a young English journalist.

BADGE OF THE ASSASSIN. By Robert Tannenbaum and Philip Rosenberg. (Dutton. $10.95.) An “engrossing, account” of the four‐year manhunt for the murderers of four New York policemen involving ambushes, pursuits, arrests, two trials and suspenseful all the way.

BLACK MACHO AND THE MYTH OF THE SUPERWOMAN. By Michele Wallace. (Dial. $7.95.) A young black woman's provocative assertions about the sexual preoccupations of black men and their social consequеnces.

CHILDREN OF THE HOLO. слusт. Conversations With Sons and Daughters of Survivors. By Helen Epstein. (Putnam's. $10.95.) A personal account and sampling of the attitudes and anxieties that beset the now‐grown children of the camp survivors. Affecting and well‐written.

CHINESE ENCOUNTERS. By Inge Morath and Arthur Miller. (Farrar, Straus. $25.) The playwright and his photographer‐wife toured the People's Republic and offer a personal account.

THE CULTURE OF NARCISSISM. American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. Ву Christopher Lasch. (Norton. $11.95.) “A civilized hellfire sermon, with little promise of salvation” from the increasingly embittered historian and author of “The New Radicalism in America.”

A DANGEROUS PLACE. Ву Daniel Patrick Moynihan with Suzanne Weaver. (Atlantic‐Little, Brown. $12.50.) An account by the junior senator from New York of his eight‐month term as chief United States delegate to the United Nations.

THE DUEL OF THE GIANTS. China and Russia in Asia. ‘Ву Drew Middleton. (Scribner's. $10.95.) A brisk survey by the military correspond. ent of The New York Times.

ENDGAME. The Inside Story of SALT II. Ву Strobe Talbott. (Harper & Row. $15.) Time magazine's diplomatic correspondent gives a “substantially accurate” and very detailed account of the delicate negotiations.

ENERGY FUTURE. Report of the Energy Protect at the Harvard Business School. Edited by Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin, with I. C. Bupp, Mel Horwitch, Sergio Koreisha, М. A. Maidique and Frank Schuller. (Random House. $12.95.) The “competent integration of geopolitics, econom. irs and science ... exudes the calm confidence of its origins.”

ESSAYS IN FEMINISM, Ву Vivian Gornick. (Harper & Row. $10.) A collection of a decade's vigorous essays on aspects of feminism and the women's movement.

THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN. A True Story of Friendship and Espionage. By Robert Lindsey. (Simon & Schuster. $12.95.) A “smashing real life spy story” about two bored, aimless young California men who sold important space secrets to the Soviets.

THE GOLDEN DOOR. International MIgration, Mexico, and the United States. By Paul R. Ehrlich, Loy Bilderback and Anne H. Ehrlich. (Ballantine. $12.95.) The authors, best known for their work on the population explosion, turn to population migration and the massive movement of people north from Mexico. First rate work.

THE MAKING OF THE POPES 1978. The Politics of Intrigue in the Vatican. By Andrew M. Greeley. (Andrews and МсМееl. $12.95.) The Chicago sociologist and journalist had been following the story since 1975 and, using Theodore H. White's “President” books as precedent, set off to report on the papal elections.

MERCHANTS OF GRAIN. By Dan Morgan. (Viking. $12.50.) A look at the five gre.at, privately owned international grain companies.

THE NEOCONSERVATIVES. The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics. Ву Peter Steinfeis. (Simon & Schuster. $11.95.) The men, mostly magazine writers and academics, are easily identifiable. Their ideas, in this thoughtful bock, nevertheless prove more elusive.

THE POLITICS OF ENERGY. Ву Barry Commoner. (Knopf. Cloth, $10. Paper, $4.95.) The popular ecologist and author of “The Closing Circle” and “The Poverty of Power” here makes the case for the solar power option with evidence of sloppy policy making in the Carter Administration.

THE POWERS THAT BE. Ву David Halberstam. (Knopf. $15.) An “important and admirable,” though lumbering, account of the owners of The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Time inc. and CBS, from the author of “The Best and the Brightest.”

PRINCE OF THE CITY. The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much. By Robert Daley. (Houghton Mifflin. $10.95.) An account of the life of an undercover agent who worked with the Knapp Commission on police corruption.

QUINTANA & FRIENDS. By John Gregory Dunne. (Dutton. $9.95.) A collection of essays and reportage by the author of ‘True Confessions.”

SAFIRE'S POLITICAL DICTIONARY. By William Safire. (Random House. $15.95.) The New York Times columnist is the “perfect political lexicographer. He takes to the lingo like a California Republican takes to dirty tricks.”

SENATOR. By Elizabeth Drew. (Simon & Schuster. $8.95.) An adulatory and detailed portrait of 10 days in the life of Senator John C. Culver, Democrat of Iowa, by The New Yorker writer.

SIDESHOW. Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia. Ву William Shawcross. (Simon & Schuster. $13.95.) An English journalist, using formerly classified documents, makes the case that American intervention in Cambodia was “a crime.”

THE SPHINX AND THE COMMISSAR. The Rise and Fall of Soviet Influence in the Middle East. Ву Mohamed Heikal. (Harper & Row. $12.95.) The Egyptian journalist who was close to Gamal Abdel Nasser gives a diplomatic but anecdotal account of modern Soviet diplomacy in the region.

STEVE BIKO: Black Consciousness in South Africa. (Random House. $12.95.) An impressive collection, including the full transcript of the young South African black leader's court testimony before his death.

THE STREETS WERE PAVED WITH GOLD. By Ken Auletta. (Random House. $12.95.) A shrewd analysis of the causes of New York City's recent fuп_ocial crisis.

SUFFER THE CHILDREN. The Story of Thalidomide. By the Insight Team of The Sunday Times of London. (Viking. $12.95.) “A model of responsible journalistic investigation” —the harrowing tale of the development and use of thalidomide and the British law suits that followed.

SURVIVING. And Other Essays. By Bruno Bettelheim. (Knopf. $15.) Two dozen essays, written over nearly 40 years and treating matters as diverse as urban design, schizophrenia and the sexual revolution.

TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. The Break‐In, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon. Bу John J. Smite. (Norton. $15.) The Watergate judge's brief in his own defense. A vigorous and angry memoir that adds some new details to the sordid scandal

Essays & Criticism

AFRICAN CALLIOPE. A Journey to the Sudan. Ву Edward Hoagland. (Random House. $10.) The record of a memorable journey to “a country near Ethiopia, Uganda and Z?? . ??opled by black Africans, Moslems, Arabs, Copts and others.”

ANNALS OF AN ABIDING LIBERAL. Ву John Kenneth Galbraith. (Houghton Mifflin. $12.95.) Miscellaneous essays on literature, travel, government and the fiscal situation by a celebrated economist.

THE AVOIDANCE OF LITERATURE. Collected Essays. Ву C. H. Sisson. (Carcanet Press/Persea Books. $20.) Essays on literary independence in the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Wyndham Lewis.

BOOKS ARE NOT LIFE BUT THEN WHAT IS? By Marvin Mudrick. (Oxford. $12.95.) The third collection of essay‐reviews originally published in the Hudson Review by the “all‐pro mid- die linebacker of academic criticism.”

CELEBRAТIONS AND ATТАСжS. Thirty Years of Literary and Culturпl Comme ntary. By Irving Howe. (Horizon. $14.95.) A mostly celebratory collection of occasional writings by the author of “World of Our Fathers” and “Trotsky.” “The power of his common style is continuous and indisputable.” THE CITY OBSERVED: NEW YORK. A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan. Ву Paul Goldberger. (Random House. Cloth, $15. Vintage. Paper, $7.95.) “An important testament to the most important city in thе land” by the architecture critic of The New York

CONFESSIONS OF А KNIFE. By Richard Selzer. (Simon & Schuster. $8.95.) Essays on medicine and mortality by a master writer‐surgeon. DECADENCE. The Strange Life of an Epithet. Ву Richard Gilman. (Farrar, Straus. $8.95.) A literary, social, philological discourse on a word laden with hidden connotations.

THE EDWARD HOAGLAND READER. Edited and with an introduction by Geoffrey Wolff. (Random House. Cloth, $12.95. Vintage. Paper, $4 95) Essays on “ratters of enduring interest - the death of a father, childbirth, the relation of man and animals, qualities of the human heart.”

THE EIFFEL TOWER. And Other Mythologies. By Roland Barthes. (Hill and Wang. $9.95.) Reflections and observations on phenomena as diverse as a Billy Graham crusade in Paris, the Tour de France bicycle race and a celebrated murder trial by a famous French critic.

FAMILIAR TERRITORY. Observations on American Life. By Joseph Epstein. (Oxford. $11.95.) Stern, lively essays on contemporary culture, language and manners by the editor of The AmеrictIn Scholar.

FAIRFIELD PORTER: ART IN His OWN TIMES. Selected Сritiсism 1935‐1975. Edited and with an introduction by Rackstraw Downes. (Taplinger. Cloth, $15. Paper, $7.95,) This collection of the late painter's criticism “places Porter among the most important critics of his time.”

THE GENESIS OF SECRECY. On the Interpretation of Narrative. Ву Frank Kermode. (Harvard. $10.) Sacred and secular texts discussed by major British literary critic.

GERSHOM SCHOLEM. KabDDavid Biale. (Harvard. 5.) “The first attempt to confront Scholem's stature as a cooternporary Jewish theologian.”

GIVING GOOD WEIGHT. Ву John McPbee. (Farrar, Straus. $9.95.) Five new sketches - of a chef, Greептarkets, canoeing and other diverse phenomena -

THE GREAT SHARK HUNT. Strange Tales From a Strange Time. Ву Hunter S. Thompson. (Rolling Stone/Summit. $14.95.) A collection of articles from the 1960's by the founder of Gonzo Journalism.

THE ILLUSION OF TECH. NIQUE. A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization. By William Barren. (Doubleday. $12.95.) That rare and delightful thing, a self‐exemplify. ing book.” A study of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and William James.

JOYCE'S VOICES. By Hugh Kenner. (University of California. $8.95.) An “original and entertaining study,” chiefly of “Ulysses.”

LIFE, LAW AND LETTERS. Essays and Sketches. Ву Louis Auchincloss. (Houghton Mifflin. $8.95.) Essays on writers who reflect the author's interest in “social values, manners and institutions” - among them Proust, James, Austen and Thackeray.

A LOVER'S DISCOURSE. Fragments, Ву Roland Rarthes. (Hill and Wang. $10.) The French literary critic anatomizes love and literature.

MANDELSmm/K. The Complete Critical Prose and Letters. Edited by Jane Gary Harris. Translated by Jane Gary Harris and Constance Link. (Ardis. Cloth, $25. Paper, $12.50.) A rich and exhilarating collection of prose by “probably the greatest Russian poet of this century.”

MODERN ART. 18th and 20th Centuries. Selected Papers, By Meyer Schapiro. (Braziller. $20.) A collection of many of the art historian's already classic essays.

MUSIC AFTER MODERNISM. By Samuel Lipman. (Basic. $11.95.) Essays on 19thand 20th‐century composers by the music critic of Commentary.

THE MYTH MAKERS. Literary Essays. By V. S. Pritchett. (Random House. $8.95.) Meditations on the European masters by “ап IncorrigiЫe journalist [who] brings us the news about literature.”

THE NABOBOV‐WILSON LETTERS. Coгroрoоke Be- tween Vladimir Nabokotiv and Edmund Wilson, 194??‐1971. Edited annotated and with an introductoтy essay by Simon Karflnsky. (Harper & Row. $15.) An erudite, civilized epistolary dialogue on life and literature between two great men of letters.

ОВITUАRIЕS. Ву William Sаrayan. (Creative Arts. Cloth, $15. Paper, $7.95.) Still the dartug young man, he here considers death, specifically the deaths of 200 people whose names appeared in the Necrology section of Variety in 1976.

THE OBSTACLE RACE. The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work. By Germaine Greer. (Farrar, Straus. $25.) The problems of women artists - and why there have been so few of them - by the author of “The Female Eunuch.”

OF POETRY AND POETS. Ву Richard Eberhart. (University of Illinois. $15.) “Openhearted, broad‐minded and large‐mannered essays” on contemporary poetry by a practitioner of the art.

РRТVАTE LIVES IN THE IMPERIAL CITY. By John Leonard. (Knopf. $8.95.) A collection of columns that have appeared in The Times's Living Section.

THE OLD PATAGONIAN EXPRESS. Ву Train Through the Americas. By Paul Theroux. (Houghton Mifflin. $11.95.) The novelist and author of “The Great Railway Bazaar” boards a train in Boston and wends his way to the Southern tip of Argentina.

ON DIFFICULTY. And Other Essays. Ву George Steiner. (Oxford. $10.95.) The critic “scatters bright ideas everywhere, and they are sure to be picked up ... his heart is in many of the right places.”

ON LIES, SECRETS, AND 51- LENCE. Selected Prose 1966- 1978. Ву Adrienne Rich. (Norton. $13.95.) The poet's prose “moves with force, clarity, energy; and soothes with a poet's grace and elegance.” The subjects are feminism, pedagogy and literature.

ON NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH. Writings of a Work- ing Critic. By Roger Sale. (Oxford. $12.95.) A collection of book reviews and literary essays by a regular contributor to many periodicals.

ONWARD AND UPWARD IN THE GARDEN. By Katharine S. White. (Farrar, Straus. $12.95.) Essays on life and gardening by the late New Yorker editor.

ORIENTALISM. By Edward W. Said. (Pantheon. $15.) A complex, ambitious “exploration of the West's attitude to Islam and the East.”

ORIGINALS. American Women Artists. By Eleanor Munro. (Simon & Schuster. $19.95.) A book less about women than about how works of art are made, about the pleasures of invention.

THE POET'S WORK. 29 Mas(era of 20th Century Poetry on the Origins and Practice of Their Art. Edited by Reginald Gibbons. (Houghton Mifflin. $6.50.) Essays by modern American and European poets on the nature of composition.

THE PUSHCART PRIZE, IV. Best of the Small Presses. Edited by Bill Henderson. (Pushcart Press. • $16.50.) The fourth annual volume of stories, poems and essays culled from the year's crop of little magazines.

A REVOLUTION IN TASTE. By Louis Simpson. (Macmillan. $12.95.) A discussion of the “al- most right‐angle change In the sensibility of American poetry” in the 1960's.

TELLING LIVES. The Biographer's Art. Essays by Leon Edel, Justin Kaplan, Alfred Kazin, Doris Kearns, Theodore Rosengarten, Barbara W. Tuchman and Geoffrey Wolff. Edited by Marc Pachter. (New Republic Books/ National Portrait Gallery. $9.95.) Seven biographers discuss the secrets of

their trade. UTOPIAN THOUGHT IN THE WESTERN WORLD. By Frank E. Manuel and Frltzie P. Manuel. (Harvard. $25.) A masterly treatise on utopian theory from Thomas More and Gior-

dano Bruno to Auguste Comte and Karl Marx. THE VIEW IN WINTER. Reflections on Old Age. By Ronald Blythe. (Harcourt Brace. $12.95.) A poignant narrative of life in old age, assembled from interviews, by the author of

“Akenfield: A Portrait of an English Village.” THE WHITE ALBUM. By Joan Didion. (Simon & Schuster. $9.95.) A vivid portrait of

Fidiori

АВВА АВВА. By Anthony Burgess. (Little, Brown. Paper, $4.95.) John Keats in Rome and his friendship with the Italian poet Giuseppe Belli. A bright Idea for an imaginative novel.

THE ANARCHISTS’ CON- VENTION. Ву John Sayles. (Little, Brown. $9.95.) The author of the higNy praised “Union Dues” returns with a collection of short stories. He is a “revivalist of realism, oldtime and unabashed.”

THE BASS SAXOPHONE. Two Novellas, By Josef Skvorecky. Translated by Kaca Polackova‐Henley. (Knopf. $8.95.) “Luminous novellas” about jazz music and Czechoslovakia.

BEAUTIFUL GIRL. Ву Alice Adams. (Knopf. $8.95.) Stories of “edgy wit and compressed narrative power” from the author of “Families and Survivors” and “Listening to Billie.”

A BEND IN THE RIVER. By V. S. Naipaul. (Knopf. $8.95.) A splendid new novel of “the ordeals and absurdities of living in a new [African] country” by one of the greatest living writers in English, the author of

“Ina Free State” and “A House for Mr. Biswas.”

THE BEST OF SНOLOM ALEICHEM. Edited by Irving Howe and Ruth R. Wisse. (New Republic. $12.50.) A new collectin of tales by the great Yiddish

humorist. BIRDY. Ву William Wharton. (Knopf. $8.95.) A first novel about a Philadelphia boy who is obsessed with birds and

to imagine himself one. BLACK TICKETS. By Jayne Anne Phillips. (Delacorte/Seyтour Lawrence. Cloth, $8.95. Delta. Paper, $4.95.) stories and vignettes about lust, passion,

childhood and family by a talented young writer. BURGER'S DAUGHTER. Ву Nadine Gordimer. (Viking. $10.95.) A story of “commit-

ment and heroism” — and of racial conflict — in South Africa. CANNIBALS AND MISSIONARIES. By Mary McCarthy. (Harcourt Brace. $10.95.) A committee of liberals is hijacked on the way to Iran to investigate the atrocities of the

Shah's regime. “The most political, the least autobiographical of her novels.”

CHAMBER MUSIC. By Doris Grumbach. (Dutton. $8.95.) This cool novel takes the form of a widow's memoirs of her husband, a turn-of-the-century American composer.

CHILDREN OF POWER. Ву Susan Richards Shreve. (Macmillan. $8.95.) “A somber, impressive work” about the off.. spring of the men who rule Washington, D.C.

COLLECTED STORIES OF PAUL BOWLES. 1938‐1978. (Black Sparrow Press. Cloth, $14. Paper, $6.) “Thirty‐nine stories, coldly and impeccably fashioned, the work of four decades: tales set, for the most part, in Morocco, Mexico and South America, in landscapes of superlunary authority.”

CONFESSIONS OF A LADYKILLER. By George Stade. (Norton. $8.95.) A novel “bristling with irony and wit” about a psychopathic bookstore manager whose wife leaves him for a woman.

THE CONFESSIONS OF JOSEF BAISZ, By Dan Jacobson. (Harper & Row. $10.) A psycho‐polltical novel by the author of “The Wonder Worker.”

CONFESSIONS OF SUMMER. By Philip Lopate. (Doubleday. $9.95.) The story of “a romantic triangle, that most lopsided and confession-inducing of human arrangements,” on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

THE COUP. Ву John Updike. (Knopf. $8.95.) “A comedy of racial and cultural incongruities,” set in Africa, that ranks with the author's best work.

DARKNESS VISIBLE. Ву William Golding. (Fan‐ar, Straus. $10.95.) An orphan, halfincinerated in the'London blitz, suffers in a Foundlings School and wanders off to Australia in this strange allegorical novel, Golding's first in 12 years.

DA VINCI'S BICYCLE. Ву Guy Davenport. (Johns Hopkins. Cloth, $12.95, Paper, $4.95.) Ten whimsical, erudite stories about Fourier, James Joyce, William James, Nijinsky and other historical characters by the author of “Tatlin! “

DESPERADOES. Ву Ron Hansen. (Knopf. $8.95.) The adventures of the notorious Dalton boys animate this lively first novel, situated in the Wild West of the 1930's.

DUBIN'S LIVES. Ву Bernard Malamud. (Farrar, Straus. $10.) The story of Dubin, the biographer of D. H. Lawrence, who faces a mid‐life crisis and finds romance with a young woman.

ELEANOR. Ву Rhoda Lerman. (Holt, Rinehart. $10.) Scenes from the crucial years of Eleanor Roosevelt's life— 19181921: the transformation of the shy socialite wife and mother to citizen of the world. Scrupulously researched, brilliantly written.

ENDLESS LOVE. By Scott Spencer. (Knopf. $10.95.) “An unabashedly romantic and harrowing novel” about adolescent love.

THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG. By Norman Mailer. (Little, Brown. $16.95.) The life and death of Utah murderer Gary Gilmore, as told by our greatest chronicler of contemporary America.

THE FLIGHT TO LUCIFER. A Gnostic Fantasy. Ву Harold Bloom. (Farrar, Straus. $9.95.) The critic's fiction is fantasy, “a book of great charm, beautifully written, unfailingly interesting.”

FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT. Ву Mavis Gallant. (Random House. $8.95.) “Foreigners either in geographical terms, or in terms of time or slant of view, nearly everyone in these stories is expatriated —figuratively if net literally.”

GHOST STORY. Ву Peter scsauь. (coward, МсСапп$10.95.) An ambitious, coniplicated novel intended to be a “hit at the checkout counter and in the English dеpartmеnt.” It nearly succeeds.

THE GHOST WRITER. By Philip Roth. (Farrar, Straus. $8.95.) A young writer's encounter with an old writer, and his imagined encounter with Anne Frank, by the master storyteller.

GLORIA МUNDI. Ву Eleanог Clark. (Pantheon. $8,95.) A novel of cultural dislocation in Vermont: random violence, aggressive real‐estate development, and the resistance of native Vermonters to change. By the author of “Rome and a Villa.”

GOOD AS GOLD. Ву Joseph Heller. (Simon & Schuster. $12.95.) “Another big book about Jews” — broad farce about Jewish families and Washington politics from the author of “Catch‐22” and “Something Happened.”

GREAT DAYS. By Donald Barthelme. (Farrar, Straus. $7.95.) His sixth collection of inimitable stories has “a new kind of calm confidence, a new depth of subject, and no pictures.”

HONOR, POWER, RICHES, FAME, AND THE LOVE OF WOMEN. Ву Ward Just. (Dutton. $8.95.) Six stories that examine “the relations between men and women in times of stress.”

I KNOW YOUR HEART, MARCO POLO. Ву Henry Bra mell. (Knopf. $7.95.) Four stories, originally published in The New Yorker, about a young writer and his family.

IN BETWEEN THE SHEETS. By Ian McEwan. (Simon & Schuster. $8.95.) Seven morbid, unsettling tales about various characters out of Beckett by a widely praised young British writer.

IN EVIL HOUR. Ву Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Harper & Row. $8.95.) Conceived in the mid‐1950'x, this novel about a mysterious village feud is “the last significant gap in the Marquez opus.”

IN PLAIN RUSSIAN. By Vladimir Voinovich. (Farrar, Straus. $11.95.) Stories about the diseпchantments of daily life in Soviet Russia by a master satirist.

IT LOOKED LIKE FOR EVER. By Mark Harris. (McGrаw‐Hill). $9.95.) The fourth novel in a series about a left‐handed pitcher, now 39 and troubled by a fading fаstbаtl.

JAILBIRD. Ву Kurt Vonnegut. (Delаcorte/Seymour Lawrence. $9.95.) A Middle Western chauffeur's son gets sent to Harvard by a stuttering millionaire, becomes a Communist, works for Roosevelt and Nixon and winds up in a jail, a convicted Watergate conspirator. “The best of Vonnegut's recent works.”

JAKE'S THING. Ву Kingsley Amis. (Viking. $9.95.) “Lucky Jim” updated: a comic novel about sex therapy for middleaged academics.

JUST ABOVE NY HEAD. Ву James Baldwin. (Dial. $12.95.) “Thirty years in the lives of a group of friends who start out preaching and singing in Harlem churches, survive (or do not survive) incest, war, poverty, the civil rights struggle and for some of them - wealth, love and fame.”

KING OF THE JEWS. By Leslie Epstein. (Coward, McCann. $10.95.) A “grim moral fable” about the chief elder of a Jewish Council in a Polish ghetto during the holocaust. A powerful novel.

LAND WITHOUT SHADOW. By Michael Mewshaw. (Doubleday. $8.95.) The harrowing adventures and amorous entanglements of an American film crew in North Africa.

LEGENDS OF THE FALL. By Jim Harrison. (Deleonrte/ Seymour Lawrence. $10.95.) Three novellas: a two-generation family saga set in Montana; the failing marriage of a middle‐aged man; and a sinister tale of violence and revenge in the Southwest.

LET THE LION EAT STRAW. By Ellease Southerland. (Scribner's. $7.95.) The story of a black woman's journey from an impoverished childhood in the South to a troubled marriage and motherhood in Brooklyn.

LETTERS. By John Barth. (Putnam's. $16.95.) “A wildly complicated story involving academic politics at a jerkwater university in Maryland, sex and drugs in weird communes in upstate New York and Canada, and a correspondence between The Author and charactsrs from his earlier works.”

THE LIVING END, By Stanley Elkin. (Dutton. $7.95.) The comic journey of a slain liquor store owner through heaven and hell by the author of “Searches and Seizures” and “The Dick Gibson Show.”

LIVING IN THE MANI0TO. TO. Ву Janet Frame. (Brazill‐?? $8.95.) Life in the New Zealand suburbs, “where the suicide rate is high and the win. dowless shopping mall is named Heavenfield.”

LONG GONE. Ву Paul Hemphill. (Viking. $8.95.) A Ring Lardneresque baseball novel about a class D team in Florida during the 1950's.

LOVERS OF THEIR TIME. Ry William Trevor. (Viking. $10.95.) Thirteen fine stories about “inoffensive people who lead uneventful, unglamorous lives.”

LUNAR ATTRACTIONS. Ву Clark Blaise. (Doubleday. $8.95.) This first novel evolves from themes in Blaise's earlier collections of short fiction. A precocious, imaginative boy grows up in central Florida and a Northern city.

THE MANGAN INHERIiTANCE. Ву Brian Moore. (Farrar, Straus. $10.95.) A gothic tale by the Irish novelist about a failed poet in West Cork.

McBAY'S BEES. By Thomas McMahon. (Harper & Row. $8.95.) The time is just before the Civil War, and McKay is “a wealthy Bostonian who сolorites an area In Kansas in an at. tempt to make money through scientific ‘bee‐keeping.” By professor of applied mechanics and biology at Harvard.

MOM KILLS KIDS AND SELF. By Alan Saperstеin. (Macmillan. $9.95.) The title describes the plot of this accomplished novel, “a daring exploration of love, marriage and life” in one American family.

MULLIGAN STEW. By Gilbert Sorrentino. (Grove Press. $7.95.) A sprawling “neo-Joycean concoction” about “a falling if not failed writer.”

OILERS AND SWEEPERS. By George Dennison. (Random House. $7.95.) “The dream of community, and an understand jag of its difficulty, pervades” these stories by the distinguished author of “The Lives of Children.”

OLD LOVE. By Isaac Bashevis Singer. (Farrar, Straus. $10.95.) Stories of lust, concupiscence and longing by the Nobel laureate.

ON THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF. By V. S. Pritchett. (Random House. $8.95.) “Admirably crafted stories” that offer “authoritative views of contemporary manners” by a celebrated man of letters.

THE PARDONER'S TALE. By John Wain. (Viking. $10.95.) A clever novel within a novel the story of Gus, “an aging Londoner contemplating divorce,” and the life of Giles, the novelist writing about Gus.

THE PASSION ARTIST. Ву John Hawkes. (Harper & Row. $9.95.) The reluctant sexual awakening journey of а colorless widower in a European town that could be anywhere.

PASSION PLAY. Ву Jerzy Koslnskl. (St. Martin's. $10.95.) The adventures of a contemporary horseman in search of sex and polo.

PROBLEMS. And Other Stories. Ву John Updike. (Knopf. $10.) A new collection of stories about marriage, divorce and other domestic matters by a great literary moralist.

RECAPITULATION. By Wallace Stegner. (Doubleday. $8.95.) His 12th novel is “rich in the grittier Amеrican truths.” A former diplomat returns to Salt Lake City and confronts his past.

THE ROCK CRIED OUT. By Ellen Douglas. (Harcourt Brace. $10.95.) A Southern novel that explores “the Byzantine tangle of black‐white relations and the corrosive effect upon whites of the civil rights moverent.”

A ROSE IN THE HEART. Ву Edna O'Brien. (Doubleday. $8.95.) Stories. “tier settings have become more sophisticated; her heroines these days make moan in stately homes, grand hotels and luxury apartments on the Mediterranean, in Italy, in New England.”

RUMORS OF PEACE. By Ella Leffland. (Harper & Row. $10.95.) “An engaging, minutely observed novel of growing up in small‐town America during World War H.

RUN TO THE WATERFALL. By Arturo Vlvante. (Scribner's. $8.95.) Fifteen stories that evoke “the life of a half‐Jewish family in prewar and postwar Siena.”

S8--GB. Nazi‐Occupied Britain 1941. By Len Deighton. (Knopf. $9.95.) A rattling good book that “blends his expertise In the spy field with his Interest in military and political history.

SECRETS AND SURPRISES. Ву Ann Beattie. (Random House. $8.95.) The young, post60's characters in these stories “share a mistrust of passion and conversation.”

THE SEVEN‐rn BABE. Ву Jerome Charyn. (Arbor House. $9.95.) His 13th novel “starts out as a fairly conventional baseball novel but modulates into something more strange and wonderful and decidedly south. Of-the-border.”

SHERBROOKES. Ву Nicholas Delbanco. (Morrow. $8.95.) The family mansion and a thousand acres in Vermont, with much interior monologue. “A writer of considerable power.”

SНIКАSТА. By Doris Lessing. (Knopf. $10.95.) A grimly satirical science fiction odyssey through great galactic empires that “both indicts and exculpates” human nature.

A SHORT WALK. By Alice Childress. (Coward, McCann. $9.95.) The brief and difficult life of a black woman, born in the South in 1900, who moves to New York and becomes a witness to the history of black struggle in our time.

SLEEPLESS DAYS. By Jurek Becker. (Нarcourt Brace/Helen and Kurt Wolff. $7.95.) “The daily grind of an authoritarian society: the psy- chic drabness, the draining political rituals, the disenchantTents,” by an East German novelist now living in the West.

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. By Elizabeth Hardwick. (Random House. $8.95.) This “subtle and beautiful” novel by the distinguished literary critic is a “shattered meditation” on a woman's life, filled with portraits of people and places she has known. “An extraordinary and haunting book.”

SOPHIE'S CHOICE. By William Styron. (Random House. $12.95.) A large, rich novel of a writer's youth and the holocaust by the author of “Lie Down in Darkness” and “The Confessions of Nat Turner.”

STAR WITNESS. By Richard Kluger. (Doubleday. $10.95.) “Something of a tour de horizon of present‐day legal Issues.” The lawyer is a lady named Tabor Hill.

A STOPPING PLACE. By A. G. Mojtabai. (Simon & Schuster. $10.95.) A novel of Iran and Pakistan in the early 1060's by the author of “Mundome.”

THE STORY OF AUNT SHLOIМZION THE GREAT. By Yoram Kaniuk. Translated by

Zeva Shapiro. (Harper & Row. $10.95.) A dark but comic Israeli novel about an unusual father and daughter.

SWEET COUNTRY. Ву Caroline Richards. (Harcourt Brace. $9.95.) A stunning “first‐class political novel” set in Chile in 1973, just before the overthrow of Allende.

TERRITORIAL RIGHTS. By Muriel spark. (Coward, McCann. $9.95.) “Past and present, Communism and capitalism, idealism and brutal cunning, passion and fatuity: all of these elements are expertly blended” by the author of “Memento Mori” and “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.”

TOO FAR TO GO. The Maples Stories. Ву John Updike. (Fawcett. Paper, $2.95.) Seventeen semi‐autobiographical stories written over nearly 25 years describing the break‐up of a marriage.

THE TREE HOUSE CONFESSIONS, By James McConkey. (Dutton. $3.95.) An “intelligent and delicate book” about a 50-year-old “modestly successful, happily married newspaperman” who climbs into a tree house every day one summer to compose this memoir.

UNHOLY LOVES. By Joyce Carol Oates. , (Vanguard.

$10.95.) Professors and administrators compete for an eminent poet's attention in this grim portrait of university life.

UNNATURAL SCENERY. Ву Vincent Canby. (Knopf. $8.95.) The critic's second novel is about an eccentric WASP obsessed with the Albigensian heresies.

WHEN THE TREE SINGS. Ву Stratis Haviaris. (Simon & Schuster. $9.95.) A poet's sensitive novel about coming of age in Greece during World War II.

WHERE THE LAND AND WATER MEET. By Julian Moynahan. (Morrow. $9.95.) A novel that seems part memoir —a boy coming of age in Massachusetts at the end of the Depression.

WILD OATS. Ву Jacob Epstein. (Little, Brown. $9.95.) The trials of a wryly philosophical college freshman by a “more than promising” young novelist.

THE YAWNING HEIGHTS. Ву Alexander Zinoviev. (Random House. $15.) A sprawling satire on the follies of contemporary Soviet society by a Russian emigre.

THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH. By Thomas Flana- gan. (Holt, Rinehart. $12.95.) An ambitious historical novel about the second half of the Irish rebellion of 1798, colored by the author's “intense and informed obsession with the place and the period.”

History

AMERICA REVISED. History Schoolbooks In the Twentieth Century. By Frances FitzGerald. (Atlantic‐Little, Brown. $9.95.) The author of “The Fire in the Lake” “traces the corning and going of national moods” in textbooks. A work of criticism and scholarship.

AMOSKEAG. Life and Work in an American Factory‐City, By Tamara K. Hareven and Randolph Langenbach. (Pantheon. $15.) A fine account, in the form of oral histories and photographs, of life in “what was once the largest textile center in the world.”

BAY OF PIGS. The Untold Story. By Peter Wyden. (Simon & Schuster. $12.95.) An account of events that is “the more frightening ... because it demonstrates the appalling ineptitude of the C.I.A.”

BEEN IN THE STORM SO LONG. The Aftermath of Slav- егу. Ву Leon F. Litwack. (Knopf. $20.) A “rich and admirably written account” of slavery carried into Reconstruction. The author describes “the extra, rdinary efforts of the freedmen.”

BITTER GLORY. Poland and Its Fate 1918‐1939. Ву Richard M. Watt. (Simon & Schuster. $16.95.) The author of “The Kings Depart” offers a “popular, eminently readable history of the first Polish Republic.”

BLOOD OF SPAIN. An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War. By Ronald Fraser. (Pantheon. $15.95.) A remarkable book that “captures the feel of what it was like to be in Spain during the civil war” .....insights of a kind that might have been reasonably Eхpected only in a great novel.”

THE BOER WAR. By Thomas Pakenham. (Random House. $20.) A “compellingly readable account” of that remote war Britain stumbled into, which was a prelude to World War I, and has haunting parallels to Vietnam.

BRITAIN AND THE JEWS OF EUROPE 1939‐1545. By Bernard Wasserstein. (Oxford. $17.95.) A meticulous account, based on recently released Foralga Office documents, that shows Great Britain to have acted in less than good faith toward the Jews.

CARNIVAL IN ROMANS. By Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie. Translated by Mary Feeney. (BrazIller. $20.) The brilliant French historian, author of “Montaillou,” turns to the tax revolt in a little town in southern France in 1580. An erudite and accessible work of

scholarship. GERMANY 1886‐1845. - By Gordon A. Craig. (Oxford. $19.95.) “A work of great erudition, packed with detail . dealing with all aspects of government and social life.”

THE GREAT MUTINY. India 1857. By Christopher Hibbert. (Viking. $15.95.) An exemplary work of “historical Journalism,” a closely reported, fascinating account of the Mutiny itself.

THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY. Vol. I: An Introduction. By Michel Foucault. Translated from the French by Robert Burley. (Pantheon. $8.95.) The French philosopher‐historian's concern is “how institutions create the concept of illness, crime, insanity or sex.” This is the beginning of a large new work.

LEST INNOCENT BLOOD ВE SHED. The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There. By Philip P. Hallie. (Harper & Row. $12.95.) The affecting story of how a tiny Protestant town in southeastern France harbored Jews successfully during World War H.

LIFE IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE. Ву Mark Girouard. (Yale. $19.95.) An admirably written and handsomely illustrated social and architectural history that traces the best barns in Britain —those stately country homes from their medieval origins to the 20th century.

MUNICH. The Price of Peace. By Telford Taylor. (Doubleday. $17.50.) A narrative that is “scrupulous, Impartial and thorough.”

NAPLES ‘44. Ву Norman Lewis. (Pantheon. $8.95.) A Welsh novelist's “Goyaesque” account of the horrors of war encountered in Naples. The diary is “vivid, lucid, eloquent, often funny, more often bitter and melancholy.”

THE PALESTINE TRIANGLE. The Struggle for the Holy Land 1935‐48. By Nicholas Bethell. (Putnam's. $12.95.) A “scholarly and meticulously documented account of British policy on Palestine” which shows the British to have behaved in bad faith.

THE PARNAS. Ву Silvana Arieti. (Basic. $10.) The psychoanalyst who grew up in Pisa, Italy, tells the story of the end of its Sephardic Jewish leader, “the Parnas,” at the hands of the Nazis. Chilling and compellingly well told.

PERSONAL POLITICS. The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. By Sara Evans. (Knopf. $10.95.) A scholarly account “of circumstances throughout the 1960's that brought women radicals to the conclusion that sexual inequality was as fundamental an injustice in American society as racial or class inequality.”

THE RIGHT STUFF. By Tom Wolfe. (Farrar, Straus. $12.95.) The journalist best known for his hyperkiпetic prose style turns to the story of the Mercury astronauts for a brilliant discussion of courage and American character.

ROCKDALE. The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. (Knopf. $17.50.) A book of “epic proportions, the formation of the structure and the mind of American industrial society as represented microcosmically in a single community in the first half of the 19th century.”

THE ROCKET TEAM. By Frederick I. Ordway 3d and Mitchell R. Sharpe. Foreword by Wernher von Braun. (Crowell. $14.95.) An account that “belongs as much to the literature of World War II as it does to that of space flight ... [dealing with] the secret development and use of the V‐I and V‐2 rockets.”

A SEASON OF YOUTH. The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. By Michael Kammen. (Knopf. $15.) An interesting but rambling discussion of the meaning of the Revolution as reflected in our popular national culture.

SEEING THROUGH CLOTHES. By Anne Hollander. (Viking. $25.) “A study of the relationship of fashion to art that is both fascinating and frustrating.”

TRB. Views and Perspectives on the Presidency. By Richard L. Strout. (Macmillan. $14.85.) The columnist for The New Republic has covered Washington since the early 20s. His prose has managed to avoid “the twin perils ... of gossip and trivia ... and punditry”

WOMAfd's PROPER PLACE. A History of Changing Ideals and Practices, 1879 to the Present. By Sheila M. Rothman. (Basic. $12.50.) A provocative survey examining the effects of social policies and prejudices on Amеrican women.

Poetry

“A.” Ву Louis Zukosfsky. (University of California. $16.25.) The complete text of one of the late poet's major works, a testament to his claim that poetry is “nothing/ else but the completed action of writing words to be set to music.”

AMERICAN JOURNAL. By Robert Hayden. (Effendi Press. $5.) Thirteen autobiographical and historical poems by a black poet who mingles “precision and economy” with “the common parlance of the street.”

ASHES. Poems New and Old. By Philip Levine. (Atheneum. Paper, $4.95.) “Quietly introspective, thoughtful, impersonal,” these poems — many of theme reprinted from a 1971 chapbook — achieve “a heightened simplicity.”

COLLECTED POEMS. Ву F. T. Prince. (Sheep Meadow Press. Cloth, $9.95. Paper, $4.95.) “Setting aside Eliot's ‘Four Quartets,’ F. T. Prince's ‘Soldiers Bathing’ is perhaps the finest poem in English to come out of World War II.”

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ISAAC ROSENBERG. Poetry, Prose, Letters, Paintings and Drawings. (Oxford. $25.) A definitive new edition of the work of a poet killed on the Western Front at the close of World War I. “The best Jewish poet writing in English that our century has given us.”

EUGENE ONHGIN. By Alexander Pushkin. Translated by Charles Johnston. (Viking. $12.50.) A resourceful new translation of the Russian masterpiece, “not a poem but a monument.”

MIRABELL: BOOKS OF NUMBER, Ву James Merrill. (Atheneum. $10.95.) An eloquent poem dictated by the poet's occult muse, through a Ouija board that dispenses messages from the dead, instruction in various mysteries and poignant meditations on the sorrows of our earthly life.

NEW & SELECTED THINGS TAKING PLACE. By May Swenson. (Atlantic‐Little, Brown. Cloth, $12.50. Paper, $7.95.) A new edition of poems drawn from the work of three decades, this comprehensive work, impressively various in style, theme and attitude, discloses the voice of a significant American poet — “amusing, perceptive, expert with metaphor and unabashedly concerned with incidentals.”

THE POEMS OF STANLEY KUNITZ 1928‐1978. (AtlanticLittle, Brown. Cloth, $12.50. Paper, $6.95.) Half a century's work by a poet of “unusual pr:ver and depth.”

THE STAR‐APPLE KINGDOM. By Derek Walcott. (Fагrar, Straus. $10.) These poems illuminate, in a richly Elizabethan cadence and meter, the complexities of Caribbean life, “a subject known to its marrow, explored in microcosm and macrocosm, past and present, both for its political bearings and for the light it casts on the moral development of our kind.”

THIS BLESSED EARTH. New and Selected Poems, 19271977. (Scribner's. $7.95.) Ву John Hall Wheelock. “He was a classicist, and his poems came from the conviction that poetry releases human emotion when It is most compressed by the medium of form.”

Science & Social Science

THE BODY IN QUESTION. By Jonathan Miller. (Random House. $15.95.) The fascinating book version of the versatile Dr. Miller's BBC television series on the human body.

BROCA'S BRAIN. Reflec- tions on the Romance of Sci- ence. By Carl Sagan. (Random House. $12.95.) A collection of essays by the “most effective and popular advocate of the wonders of science in the United States.”

THE BROKEN CONNEC- TION. On Death and the Conti- nuity of Life. By Robert Jay Lit- ton. (Simon & Schuster. $15.95.) The eminent analyst “is surely correct when he argues that psychoanalytic theory has been especially remiss in its attempt to manage man's awareness of death.”

BUMBLEBEE ECONOMICS. By Bernd Heinrich. (Harvard. $17.50.) A California entomologist examines “insect societies as economic systems” and finds them “complex, well‐ordered mechanisms for maximizing energy gains from the outer world.”

DISTURBING THE UNI- VERSE. By Freeman Dyson. (Harper & Row. $12.95.) The English physicist, offers memoirs that are interesting but erratic, reflecting his career and interests.

THE EIGHTH DAY OF CREATION. Makers of the Revolution in Biology. By Horace Freeland Judson. (Simon & Schuster. $15.95.) “One of the best books of popular or semipopular science writing” reveals and explains much of the remarkable work on the biochemistry of life done in the last 25 years.

GODEL, ESCHER, BACH. An Eternal Golden Braid. By Douglas R. Hofstadter. (Basic. $18.50.) A young American computer scientist takes on Godel's theory of incompleteness, and imaginatively explores it with particular reference to the artist M. C. Escher and the composer J. S. Bach.

THE GROWTH OF THE CHILD. Reflections on Human Development. By Jerome Kagan. (Norton. $12.95.) “The most influential American scholar of infancy” concludes, surprisingly, that “change, not stability, seems to be the most promising characteristic of the opening year of life.”

LEADERSHIP. By James MacGregor Burns. (Harper & Row. $15.) An “encyclopedic” discussion of “every aspect of politics that is pertinent to leadership.”

THE MEDUSA AND THE SNAIL. More Notes of a Biology Watcher. By Lewis Thomas. (Viking. $8.95.) The author of “The Lives of a Cell” continues to muse elegantly on matters great and small.

NUMBER OUR DAYS. By Barbara Myerhoff. (Dutton. $12.95.) An anthropologist's account of a senior citizens center in Venice, Calif., that is beautifully written, “often funny, always deeply moving.” The subject is “the proper way to live.”

PROGRAMS OF THE BRAIN. Based on the Gifford

Lectures, 1975‐77. By J. Z. Young. (Oxford. $14.95.) The eminent British biologist returns to the nature of thought in a “splendid” new book.

SHINOHATA. A Portrait of Japanese Village. By Ronald P. Dore. (Pantheon. $11.95.) A splendid “intimate account of a Japanese hamlet” observed over several decades by an English sociologist.

STATES AND SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS. A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China. By Theda Skocpol. (Cambridge. Cloth, $29.50. Paper, $7.95.) A young scholar offers a “new frame of reference” for • understanding the French, Russian and Chinese revolutions by comparing “internal structural contradictions.” is