John Kenneth Galbraith thinks he knows how to remedy mass poverty in the underdeveloped countries, and tells you in The Nature of Mass Poverty (Harvard, $8.95). . . . Yet another biography on a much-chawed-on subject that remains as fresh and indestructible as a piece of magic chewing-gum: Karl Marx: A Political Biography (Little, Brown, $16.95) by Fritz J. Raddatz. . . . Adventures of a Bystander (Harper, $12.95) isa volume of memoirs by Peter F. Drucker, the corporate expert. . . . General Sir John Hackett’s The Third World War: August 1985 (Macmillan, $9.95) describes the makings of World War III. Sir John is a former NATO commander, and his book has produced quite a stir in Great Britain.
Some March Titles: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor (Farrar, $15), edited by Miss O’Connor’s close friend Sally Fitzgerald, is a moving, fascinating, and delightful volume. Although these are by no means the complete letters—Mrs. Fitzgerald does not attempt to hide the fact that many letters and details have been withheld in the interests of privacy and propriety—they are most useful to a • better appreciation of one of the geniuses of recent American letters. . . . Doris Grumbach, the well-known critic and former literary editor of The New Republic, has written a novel called Chamber Music (Dutton, $8.95), about barren marriage and Sapphic love. Miss Grumbach is a fine writer.
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