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■ Just Out: Veteran newsman George Murray brings Windy City crime up to date with The Legacy of Al Capone (Putnam, $10.95). . . . Finally somebody spells out The Case against College: Caroline Bird (McKay, $9.95). . . . Antonia Fraser follows Mary, Queen of Scots with a life of her son, James VI and I (Knopf, $12.50). For the same house, Thomas C. Reeves writes more than you’d think possible about the imposing Chester A. Arthur in Gentleman Boss ($15). . . . St. Martin offers Terrorists and Terrorism by Edward Hyams, who seems to endorse both ($7.95). . . . An unvarnished Thurber emerges from New Yorker staffer Burton Bernstein’s portrait for Dodd, Mead ($15). . . . Important but expensive: Michael Oakeshott’s On Human Conduct (Oxford, $18.50).

■ Paperbacks: Inflation note. Mailer’s Marilyn now out in the Warner cheap paperback—at $2.50. . . . Political portent? Mass-market house, NAL, finds it a good commercial bet to feature Galbraith’s Economics and the Public Purpose ($1.95) on its new list. . . . Two Horatio Alger reprints from Canyon Books of Chatsworth, Calif.: The Young Outlaw, or, Adrift in the Streets and Strong and Steady, or, Paddle Your Own Canoe ($1.25 each). . . . The Best of LIFE is oversized (Avon, $7.95). The same house has a manual for drones, The Encyclopedia of U.S. Government Benefits. A huge book, of course ($4.95). . . . Coping is a collection of Pat Moynihan’s ruminations on government (Vintage, $4.95). . . . Songwriter Alec Wilder’s American Popular Song is definitive (Oxford, $6.95). The same house reprints C. S. Lewis’ celebrated English Literature in the Sixteenth Century ($4.95). . . . The Price of Glory is Alistair Horne’s retelling of the battle of Verdun (Griffin, $3.50).

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■ Just Out: Veteran newsman George Murray brings Windy City crime up to date with The Legacy of Al Capone (Putnam, $10.95). . . . Finally somebody spells out The Case against College: Caroline Bird (McKay, $9.95). . . . Antonia Fraser follows Mary, Queen of Scots with a life of her son, James VI and I (Knopf, $12.50). For the same house, Thomas C. Reeves writes more than you’d think possible about the imposing Chester A. Arthur in Gentleman Boss ($15). . . . St. Martin offers Terrorists and Terrorism by Edward Hyams, who seems to endorse both ($7.95). . . . An unvarnished Thurber emerges from New Yorker staffer Burton Bernstein’s portrait for Dodd, Mead ($15). . . . Important but expensive: Michael Oakeshott’s On Human Conduct (Oxford, $18.50).

■ Paperbacks: Inflation note. Mailer’s Marilyn now out in the Warner cheap paperback—at $2.50. . . . Political portent? Mass-market house, NAL, finds it a good commercial bet to feature Galbraith’s Economics and the Public Purpose ($1.95) on its new list. . . . Two Horatio Alger reprints from Canyon Books of Chatsworth, Calif.: The Young Outlaw, or, Adrift in the Streets and Strong and Steady, or, Paddle Your Own Canoe ($1.25 each). . . . The Best of LIFE is oversized (Avon, $7.95). The same house has a manual for drones, The Encyclopedia of U.S. Government Benefits. A huge book, of course ($4.95). . . . Coping is a collection of Pat Moynihan’s ruminations on government (Vintage, $4.95). . . . Songwriter Alec Wilder’s American Popular Song is definitive (Oxford, $6.95). The same house reprints C. S. Lewis’ celebrated English Literature in the Sixteenth Century ($4.95). . . . The Price of Glory is Alistair Horne’s retelling of the battle of Verdun (Griffin, $3.50).