Books, Arts & Manners

Of Interest: Harcourt has announced, for publication next summer, a four-volume edition of The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Most of the material is previously ungathered. With the permission of Orwell’s widow (now Ramparts Magazine’s European correspondent) and contrary to the expressed wish of Orwell himself, John Aldridge of the University of Michigan is at work on a bulky biography for publication by Simon & Schuster in 1969 or 1970. . . . Wm. F. Buckley Jr.’s Up from Liberalism will be reissued, with a new preface, in March (Arlington House, $5). . . . Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker’s Fighting the Flying Circus, originally published in 1919, is being reissued as an Avon paperback (95 cents). . . . Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a new anthology of Pauline Kael’s film criticism (Litle-Brown, April).

Several Dashiell Hammett short stories, collected in book form as The Big Knockover and $106,000 Blood Money, have been acquired for filming by Metro. . . . The redoubtable Julia Child has The French Chef Cookbook, a book version of her popular TV series, coming from Knopf in April. Her Mastering the Art of French Cooking has sold 250,000 copies; a second volume is due in 1969. Bon Appetit! . . . Walter D. Edmonds (remember Drums Along the Mohawk?) has written The Musket and the Cross, a hefty history of the struggle between Britain and France over North America (Little-Brown, March, $10).

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Of Interest: Harcourt has announced, for publication next summer, a four-volume edition of The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Most of the material is previously ungathered. With the permission of Orwell’s widow (now Ramparts Magazine’s European correspondent) and contrary to the expressed wish of Orwell himself, John Aldridge of the University of Michigan is at work on a bulky biography for publication by Simon & Schuster in 1969 or 1970. . . . Wm. F. Buckley Jr.’s Up from Liberalism will be reissued, with a new preface, in March (Arlington House, $5). . . . Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker’s Fighting the Flying Circus, originally published in 1919, is being reissued as an Avon paperback (95 cents). . . . Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a new anthology of Pauline Kael’s film criticism (Litle-Brown, April).

Several Dashiell Hammett short stories, collected in book form as The Big Knockover and $106,000 Blood Money, have been acquired for filming by Metro. . . . The redoubtable Julia Child has The French Chef Cookbook, a book version of her popular TV series, coming from Knopf in April. Her Mastering the Art of French Cooking has sold 250,000 copies; a second volume is due in 1969. Bon Appetit! . . . Walter D. Edmonds (remember Drums Along the Mohawk?) has written The Musket and the Cross, a hefty history of the struggle between Britain and France over North America (Little-Brown, March, $10).