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JusT Out: James Brabazon weighs the many sides of Albert Schweitzer for Putnam ($15). . . . Robert Greenfield visits The Spiritual Supermarket, samples a collection of gurus (Saturday Review Press, $8.95/$3.95). . . . Ray Vickers of the Wall Street Journal sojourns through The Realms of Gold (Scribner, $8.95). The same house unveils a widely heralded study of Robespierre’. The Tyranny of the Majority by French historian Jean Matrat ($12.50). . . . Crime Pays! maintains Thomas Plate, and he’ll get few arguments (Simon & Schuster, $9.95). . . . Thomas Mann month: Katia Mann is a memoir by his wife (Knopf, $7.95), and Harper offers The Hesse-Mann Letters ($10).

July Titles: Four from Harper: Austin and Knight A. Kiplinger survey Washington Now ($15); Robert Thomsen portrays Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in Bill W. ($10); Bob Considine seems an odd choice to depict The Remarkable Life of Armand Hammer ($12.50); wife Dorothy finished Judge Sam Rosenman’s study of Presidential Style when he died two years ago ($15). . . . Interesting idea: James Sutherland’s The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (e.g., the Bible that printed one Commandment as “Thou shalt commit adultery”; Oxford, $13.50). . . . Robert J. Myers, publisher of the New Republic and devotee of Letting Government Do It, has two good reasons for mourning The Coming Collapse of the Post Office (Prentice-Hall, $6.95). . . . Martin Green, in Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918, focuses on the two leading decadents, Harold Acton and Brian Howard (both of whom figure pseudonymously in the Evelyn Waugh novels of the period; Basic, $15).

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JusT Out: James Brabazon weighs the many sides of Albert Schweitzer for Putnam ($15). . . . Robert Greenfield visits The Spiritual Supermarket, samples a collection of gurus (Saturday Review Press, $8.95/$3.95). . . . Ray Vickers of the Wall Street Journal sojourns through The Realms of Gold (Scribner, $8.95). The same house unveils a widely heralded study of Robespierre’. The Tyranny of the Majority by French historian Jean Matrat ($12.50). . . . Crime Pays! maintains Thomas Plate, and he’ll get few arguments (Simon & Schuster, $9.95). . . . Thomas Mann month: Katia Mann is a memoir by his wife (Knopf, $7.95), and Harper offers The Hesse-Mann Letters ($10).

July Titles: Four from Harper: Austin and Knight A. Kiplinger survey Washington Now ($15); Robert Thomsen portrays Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in Bill W. ($10); Bob Considine seems an odd choice to depict The Remarkable Life of Armand Hammer ($12.50); wife Dorothy finished Judge Sam Rosenman’s study of Presidential Style when he died two years ago ($15). . . . Interesting idea: James Sutherland’s The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (e.g., the Bible that printed one Commandment as “Thou shalt commit adultery”; Oxford, $13.50). . . . Robert J. Myers, publisher of the New Republic and devotee of Letting Government Do It, has two good reasons for mourning The Coming Collapse of the Post Office (Prentice-Hall, $6.95). . . . Martin Green, in Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918, focuses on the two leading decadents, Harold Acton and Brian Howard (both of whom figure pseudonymously in the Evelyn Waugh novels of the period; Basic, $15).