■ Out Next Month: Why did Sherlock Holmes visit America? Why was he so tightlipped about the identity of Jack the Ripper? What was the secret of the Vatican cameos? Michael Harrison answers these and a hundred other pressing questions in The World of Sherlock Holmes (Dutton, $7.95). . . . Can America Win the Next War? Drew Middleton of the New York Times is far from sure (Scribner, $7.95). . . . Winchell Exclusive is a posthumous autobiography (Prentice-Hall, $10). … A change of pace for biographer H. Montgomery Hyde, from Stalin to Oscar Wilde (Farrar, $15). . . . Hollywood oldtimers reminisce for Walter Wagner in You Must Remember This (Putnam, $8.95). . . . Galbraith knows how to make it, but can he explain Money (Houghton, $10)? . . . Remember George C. Lodge, that lion of liberal Republicanism? Now he casts himself as the avatar of The New American Ideology (Knopf, $12.50). . . . Lest we forget, along comes a title like Ann Oakley’s The Sociology of Housework to remind us of one of the century’s slickest rackets. It’s called social science (Pantheon, $10/$3.95).
■ Fast-Fast-Fast Relief from Parker. Our only problem with the fall list from Prentice-Hall subsidiary Parker Publishing is to decide which book to reach for first. We opt for The Miracle of Mana-Force: “How to unleash Mana-Force Power to locate any lost object . . . open the Cosmic Floodgates of golden riches . . . push the magic Mana-Force Button for money in any amount . . . bathe in the Mana-Force Healing Light . . . ward off psychic attack with the Boomerang Spell . . . build an invisible shield of protection”—for all that money, presumably. The author is Madeleine C. Morris, a clergyperson in the Church of Cosmic Wisdom. … If you remain skeptical of the power of religion, there’s always science. Try Helping Your Health with Pointed Pressure Therapy, whereby you use your fingertips to relieve deafness, hiccoughs, laryngitis, stammering, and of course sexual problems. The discoverer of this new science is Roy E. Bean, ND. (Yes, ND.: Doctor of Naturopathy. At this writing we’re not sure where he took his degree.) . . . God or Satan? Theodor Laurence plays no favorites in Helping Yourself with Spells, Prayers, Curses and Chants. Opening new frontiers in ecumenism, Mr. Laurence shows us how to “use the secret success prayer of the Dominican Sisters . . . direct the Hammer, Machine Gun, Laser Beam, Sun and Atomic Curses to thwart and ruin any enemy.”
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