■ Last of the June Crop: Two books on the late Dorothy L. Sayers, creator of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries: the first is Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography (Kent State, $15), by Ralph E. Hone; the second. As Her Whimsey Took Her: Critical Essays on the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers (Kent State, $15), edited by Margaret P. Hannay. We haven’t seen either of them. . . . The title of C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table: And Other Reminiscences (Macmillan, $9.95), edited by James T. Como, sets the scene aptly; the book is a collection of 24 essays by all sorts of people, from professors to car-hire drivers, who had in common a personal acquaintance with Lewis.
Henry Regnery’s Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher (Harcourt, $12.95) describes the woes and triumphs of a firm which, ideologically as geographically, has had no truck with Third Avenue’s Publishers’ Row. . . . E. B. White, remote on his Maine farm, has edited Onward and Upward in the Garden (Farrar, $12.95), a collection of gardening pieces by his late wife, Katherine S. White, for years an editor at The New Yorker. … In The Making and Unmaking of a Soviet Writer (Ardis, $10), Anatoly Gladilin casts a fairly strong light on the habits and follies of Soviet literary circles. Translated by David Lapeza.
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