■ Just Out: I at the Keyhole is a childhood memoir by Colin Middleton Murry with lots of big British names, since the author is the son of critic John (Stein & Day, $7.95). . . . Doubleday has an interesting new one, Abraham Lincoln: His Story in His Own Words, edited by Ralph Geoffrey Newman ($6.95). . . . Elizabeth Evans portrays 11 women of the American Revolution in Weathering the Storm (Scribner’s, $10). . . . Rail buffs, who never die, should be on time to welcome Railroads: An American Journey by Don Ball Jr. (New York Graphic, $19.95)…. A major study of revolutionaries by British conservative Brian Crozier: A Theory of Conflict (Scribner’s, $12.50). . . . When Jane Austen died in 1817. Another Lady picked up her work in progress, Sanditon, and finished it (Houghton, $8.95). . . . Art interpreter Kenneth Clark chronicles his early years in Another Part of the Wood (Harper, $8.50). . . . Burn the Schools— Save the Children!—could David Melton be on to something (T. Y. Crowell, $7.95)? The same house unveils The Encyclopedia of Air Warfare, and it’s lavishly illustrated ($17.95).
■ Looking toward April: Robert Payne, the biography factory, got himself a collaborator, Nikita Romano, for Ivan the Terrible (T. Y. Crowell, $12.50). But for his venture in deep-think, The Corrupt Society, Mr. Payne solos (Praeger, $8.95). . . . Finis Farr poked through 36 crates of his subject’s papers for Fair Enough: The Life of Westbrook Pegler (Arlington, $8.95). . . . William Frassanito recreates the battle at Gettysburg (Scribner’s, $10). . . . The Wallaces of Alabama is by son George with James Gregory (Follett, $7.95). For the same house, Teddy Getty Gaston tells about her twenty-year marriage to J. Paul Getty in Paul & Teddy ($7.95). . . . For fans of ofay soul music, Estell Worrell compiles The Encyclopedia of Country & Western Music (Drake, $14.95).
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