Books, Arts & Manners

Books: Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird’s press secretary, has signed a contract with Doubleday for a book about her White House years; due 1970. . . . Coming in June is the pseudonymous Frank Gell’s The Black _ Badge: Confessions of a Case Worker, an indictment of the self-perpetuating welfare system (Harper). . . . The Czech Black – Book is an hour-by-hour account of the Soviet invasion prepared by the Czecho- -slovakian Academy of Sciences (Praeger, March, $6.95); on the same dismal subject are The Voices, an eyewitness view by Joseph Wechsberg, who was born and raised in Prague (Doubleday, March, $4.95); Prague’s 200 Days by the N.Y. Times’ Harry Schwartz (Praeger, $5.95) and Prague Spring by Z. A. B. Zeman, a young Czech-in-exile who went back and Saw Jt All (Hill & Wang, $5). Danny the Red and his brother Gabriel have written Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative; welcome to the Right Wing, comrades (McGraw-Hill, 6.95); M. Servan-Schreiber has decided that, all in all, the French uprisings were a good thing because, well, change is a good thing; see The Spirit of May (McGraw-Hill, $4.95/$2.45 paperback). – Would you believe The Wit and Humor of Richard Nixon? Would Nixon? (Popular Library, 95 cents). @ Is Your CoFFEE TaBLe UP To DATE? Not unless it boasts Paul Hollister’s Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights (Clarkson Potter, $15) and/or Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center by Evelyn C. Cloak (Crown, May, $19.95). M@ New Series: The Pelican Classics will be philosophical-scientific cousins to the redoubtable Penguin Classics; first three, just published, are Hobbes’ Leviathan ($1.95), The Origin of Species ($1.25) and Clausewitz’ On War ($1.65). …On the other side of the budget, the Chicago Collector’s Editions are handsome new issues of best-sellers from the University of Chicago Press. Available now are William McNeill’s The Rise of the West ($15), Cee The Savage Mind by Claude Levi-Strauss : ($10) and Mare Bloch’s Feudal Society ($12.50). Coming in the series this spring ” is An American Primer and Narration, the — text of two lectures Gertrude Stein gave at the University, first published in 1935. Art books at attractively low prices are offered in Crown’s Bounty Books line; first titles, due in March and April, are Wood Engravings of Winslow Homer ($3.95), The Best of Charles Dana Gibson ($3.95), Selected Works of Daumier ($4.95) and— a facsimile of the 1890 Song of Hiawatha with 400 drawings by Frederic Remington ($2.98). . . . Praeger’s series of reprints of classics in the arts, crafts and trades leads off with Moxon’s Mechanick Excer- — cises and two by Thomas Sheraton: The | Cabinet-Maker’s and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book and The Cabinet Dictionary… . P. G. Wodehouse sells better, over here, with each passing year; his publishers, Simon & Schuster, hope to cash in by re_ printing his earlier novels—beginning this spring with The Code of the Woosters (a Jeeves item), Fish Preferred (Blanding Castle) and Uncle Fred in the Springtime.

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Books: Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird’s press secretary, has signed a contract with Doubleday for a book about her White House years; due 1970. . . . Coming in June is the pseudonymous Frank Gell’s The Black _ Badge: Confessions of a Case Worker, an indictment of the self-perpetuating welfare system (Harper). . . . The Czech Black – Book is an hour-by-hour account of the Soviet invasion prepared by the Czecho- -slovakian Academy of Sciences (Praeger, March, $6.95); on the same dismal subject are The Voices, an eyewitness view by Joseph Wechsberg, who was born and raised in Prague (Doubleday, March, $4.95); Prague’s 200 Days by the N.Y. Times’ Harry Schwartz (Praeger, $5.95) and Prague Spring by Z. A. B. Zeman, a young Czech-in-exile who went back and Saw Jt All (Hill & Wang, $5). Danny the Red and his brother Gabriel have written Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative; welcome to the Right Wing, comrades (McGraw-Hill, 6.95); M. Servan-Schreiber has decided that, all in all, the French uprisings were a good thing because, well, change is a good thing; see The Spirit of May (McGraw-Hill, $4.95/$2.45 paperback). – Would you believe The Wit and Humor of Richard Nixon? Would Nixon? (Popular Library, 95 cents). @ Is Your CoFFEE TaBLe UP To DATE? Not unless it boasts Paul Hollister’s Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights (Clarkson Potter, $15) and/or Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center by Evelyn C. Cloak (Crown, May, $19.95). M@ New Series: The Pelican Classics will be philosophical-scientific cousins to the redoubtable Penguin Classics; first three, just published, are Hobbes’ Leviathan ($1.95), The Origin of Species ($1.25) and Clausewitz’ On War ($1.65). …On the other side of the budget, the Chicago Collector’s Editions are handsome new issues of best-sellers from the University of Chicago Press. Available now are William McNeill’s The Rise of the West ($15), Cee The Savage Mind by Claude Levi-Strauss : ($10) and Mare Bloch’s Feudal Society ($12.50). Coming in the series this spring ” is An American Primer and Narration, the — text of two lectures Gertrude Stein gave at the University, first published in 1935. Art books at attractively low prices are offered in Crown’s Bounty Books line; first titles, due in March and April, are Wood Engravings of Winslow Homer ($3.95), The Best of Charles Dana Gibson ($3.95), Selected Works of Daumier ($4.95) and— a facsimile of the 1890 Song of Hiawatha with 400 drawings by Frederic Remington ($2.98). . . . Praeger’s series of reprints of classics in the arts, crafts and trades leads off with Moxon’s Mechanick Excer- — cises and two by Thomas Sheraton: The | Cabinet-Maker’s and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book and The Cabinet Dictionary… . P. G. Wodehouse sells better, over here, with each passing year; his publishers, Simon & Schuster, hope to cash in by re_ printing his earlier novels—beginning this spring with The Code of the Woosters (a Jeeves item), Fish Preferred (Blanding Castle) and Uncle Fred in the Springtime.