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January at Doubleday: It looks busy. William Buckley essays fiction with a CIA romp set in Britain and dubbed Saving the Queen ($7.95). A Soldier Reports in the person of General William C. Westmoreland ($12.95). The Complete Works of Saki sports a posthumous introduction by Noel Coward ($9.95). Viktor Reimann etches Goebbels ($12.50). Washington Irving’s leisurely life of George Washington is abridged for less patient readers by Charles Neider ($9.95). Henry Fairlie, many years U.S. correspondent for the London Times, regretfully calls us The Spoiled Child of the Western World ($8.95). And for Doubleday’s Anchor imprint, occasional NR contributor John Lukacs takes a searching look at The Last European War up till America’s entry in December 1941 ($15).

Publications: Every fall, periodicals must file paid-circulation figures for the issue nearest the filing date. Here are the latest, rounded off in thousands: Atlantic —331,000; Barron’s—227,000; Book Digest—412,000; Business Week——752,000; Christian Herald—248,000; Christianity Today—106,000; Commentary—55,000; The Critic—19,000; Esquire—1,250,000; Financial World—55,000; Forbes—628,-000; Harper’s—3 34,000; Human Events— 66,000; Inflation Survival Letter—45,000;Money—628,000; [MORE]—25,000; National Observer—476,000; national review—94,000; National Spotlight (formerly Liberty Letter) —151,000; The New Guard—7,000; The New Republic—85,-000; Newsweek—2,946,000; New York— 367,000; The New York Review of Books —91,000; People—1,5 97,000; Publishers Weekly—3 3,000; Reason—14,000; Ripon Forum—2,000 (well, 2,500); Saturday Review—501,000; Time—4,405,000; TV Guide—18,532,0.00; Twin Circle—63,000; Variety—36,000; The Wanderer—47,000; Washington Monthly—28,000; Washington Report (American Security Council) —80,000.

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January at Doubleday: It looks busy. William Buckley essays fiction with a CIA romp set in Britain and dubbed Saving the Queen ($7.95). A Soldier Reports in the person of General William C. Westmoreland ($12.95). The Complete Works of Saki sports a posthumous introduction by Noel Coward ($9.95). Viktor Reimann etches Goebbels ($12.50). Washington Irving’s leisurely life of George Washington is abridged for less patient readers by Charles Neider ($9.95). Henry Fairlie, many years U.S. correspondent for the London Times, regretfully calls us The Spoiled Child of the Western World ($8.95). And for Doubleday’s Anchor imprint, occasional NR contributor John Lukacs takes a searching look at The Last European War up till America’s entry in December 1941 ($15).

Publications: Every fall, periodicals must file paid-circulation figures for the issue nearest the filing date. Here are the latest, rounded off in thousands: Atlantic —331,000; Barron’s—227,000; Book Digest—412,000; Business Week——752,000; Christian Herald—248,000; Christianity Today—106,000; Commentary—55,000; The Critic—19,000; Esquire—1,250,000; Financial World—55,000; Forbes—628,-000; Harper’s—3 34,000; Human Events— 66,000; Inflation Survival Letter—45,000;Money—628,000; [MORE]—25,000; National Observer—476,000; national review—94,000; National Spotlight (formerly Liberty Letter) —151,000; The New Guard—7,000; The New Republic—85,-000; Newsweek—2,946,000; New York— 367,000; The New York Review of Books —91,000; People—1,5 97,000; Publishers Weekly—3 3,000; Reason—14,000; Ripon Forum—2,000 (well, 2,500); Saturday Review—501,000; Time—4,405,000; TV Guide—18,532,0.00; Twin Circle—63,000; Variety—36,000; The Wanderer—47,000; Washington Monthly—28,000; Washington Report (American Security Council) —80,000.