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Solzhenitsyn. First report was that The Gulag Archipelago would be out in April, published by Harper & Row. Our sources indicate May or perhaps a bit later. It will be a big book, over 600 pages, and priced at $12.50. But Harper also plans a simultaneous paperback at $1.95.

Just Out: Read it and worry: A History of Russian and Soviet Sea Power by Donald Mitchell (Macmillan, $15). The same house unveils The Life and Times of Eamon De Valera by Constantine (When the Kissing Had to Stop) FitzGibbon and George Morrison ($8.95). . . . These Priests Stay, reports Paul Wilkes of discontented Catholic clerics, and his conversations with them may leave you wondering why. Excerpt in the New York Times Magazine left knowledgeable priests skeptical about its authenticity (Simon & Schuster, $6.95). . . . Sam Waagenaar relates how Roman Jews and Catholics vied in oneupmanship over the centuries in The Pope’s Jews (Open Court, $8.95). . . . Trilling, McLuhan, Sartre, and others contribute essays on Dos Passos for Spectrum ($7.95; paperback, $2.45).

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Solzhenitsyn. First report was that The Gulag Archipelago would be out in April, published by Harper & Row. Our sources indicate May or perhaps a bit later. It will be a big book, over 600 pages, and priced at $12.50. But Harper also plans a simultaneous paperback at $1.95.

Just Out: Read it and worry: A History of Russian and Soviet Sea Power by Donald Mitchell (Macmillan, $15). The same house unveils The Life and Times of Eamon De Valera by Constantine (When the Kissing Had to Stop) FitzGibbon and George Morrison ($8.95). . . . These Priests Stay, reports Paul Wilkes of discontented Catholic clerics, and his conversations with them may leave you wondering why. Excerpt in the New York Times Magazine left knowledgeable priests skeptical about its authenticity (Simon & Schuster, $6.95). . . . Sam Waagenaar relates how Roman Jews and Catholics vied in oneupmanship over the centuries in The Pope’s Jews (Open Court, $8.95). . . . Trilling, McLuhan, Sartre, and others contribute essays on Dos Passos for Spectrum ($7.95; paperback, $2.45).