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Last April Titles: Michael Novak’s latest book is The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (Simon & Schuster, $17.50), the thesis of which is that the market economy is inseparable from democratic polity.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Dial, $16.95), edited by Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough and with a foreword by Ted Hughes, is an interesting volume made from what the poet liked to refer to as her “Sargasso.” . . . George Higgins’s tenth novel is The Patriot Game (Knopf, $12.95), set, like the nine previous ones, in the Irish-Catholic ghettos of Boston. The story concerns a Justice Department agent stalking an IRA gunrunner. . . . Frances Donaldson’s P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography (Knopf, $18.50) is a most interesting and comprehensive critical biography by a friend of the subject who had access to many hitherto unavailable documents.

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Last April Titles: Michael Novak’s latest book is The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (Simon & Schuster, $17.50), the thesis of which is that the market economy is inseparable from democratic polity.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Dial, $16.95), edited by Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough and with a foreword by Ted Hughes, is an interesting volume made from what the poet liked to refer to as her “Sargasso.” . . . George Higgins’s tenth novel is The Patriot Game (Knopf, $12.95), set, like the nine previous ones, in the Irish-Catholic ghettos of Boston. The story concerns a Justice Department agent stalking an IRA gunrunner. . . . Frances Donaldson’s P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography (Knopf, $18.50) is a most interesting and comprehensive critical biography by a friend of the subject who had access to many hitherto unavailable documents.