Random Notes

William F. Buckley Jr., editor of national review, has completed the manuscript of a book on the manners and morals of Liberalism, entitled Up from Liberalism. It will be published early this fall by McDowell, Obolensky.

Man vs. Machine. Tom Duncan, author of the forthcoming 1,000-page novel, Big River, Big Man, rejected a Book-of-the-Month offer for his book—an offer worth approximately $100,000—because BOM demanded that he cut it by one third.