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Just Out: Belloc biographer Robert Speaight now limns murky French Catholic thinker-polemicist Georges Bernanos for Liveright ($8.95). . . . Harvard political scientist James Q. Wilson’s Political Organizations will get noticed by reviewers (Basic, $10.95). . . . David Footman tracks down the nineteenth century Russian terrorists who hatched The Alexander Conspiracy and murdered the Czar (Open Court, $8.95). . . . Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle was put together by his secretary-manager, Kathleen Morrison (Holt, $10). . . . Back in print: Churchill’s Great Contemporaries, a collection of vignettes (Chicago, $7.95). … A novel, no less, from Salvador Dali: Hidden Faces (Morrow, $7.95). . . . John Jacob Beck’s MacArthur and Wainwright: Sacrifice of the Philippines has a foreword by Clare Boothe Luce (New Mexico, $10). … A huge Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole (Stanford, $18.50).

Howard Rutledge, seven years a POW in Vietnam, and wife Phyllis tell of the ordeal in In the Presence of Mine Enemies (Revell, $4.95). The same house issues the memoir of a Soviet agent who defected, then converted to Christianity: The Persecutor by Sergei Kourdakov ($5.95). . . . Presbyterian minister Robert M. Healey pens The French Achievement: Private School Aid, a Lesson for America for the Catholic Paulist Press ($5.95; paperback, $3.95). . . . Martin Fido’s Oscar Wilde is illustrated (Viking, $12.95). . . . Ray Vicker, Wall Street Journal man in Europe, takes a quickie jaunt through The Kingdom of Oil (Scribner’s, $7.95). . . . Howard Mumford Jones weighs in—yes, that’s the phrase—with Revolution and Romanticism (Harvard, $15).

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Just Out: Belloc biographer Robert Speaight now limns murky French Catholic thinker-polemicist Georges Bernanos for Liveright ($8.95). . . . Harvard political scientist James Q. Wilson’s Political Organizations will get noticed by reviewers (Basic, $10.95). . . . David Footman tracks down the nineteenth century Russian terrorists who hatched The Alexander Conspiracy and murdered the Czar (Open Court, $8.95). . . . Robert Frost: A Pictorial Chronicle was put together by his secretary-manager, Kathleen Morrison (Holt, $10). . . . Back in print: Churchill’s Great Contemporaries, a collection of vignettes (Chicago, $7.95). … A novel, no less, from Salvador Dali: Hidden Faces (Morrow, $7.95). . . . John Jacob Beck’s MacArthur and Wainwright: Sacrifice of the Philippines has a foreword by Clare Boothe Luce (New Mexico, $10). … A huge Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole (Stanford, $18.50).

Howard Rutledge, seven years a POW in Vietnam, and wife Phyllis tell of the ordeal in In the Presence of Mine Enemies (Revell, $4.95). The same house issues the memoir of a Soviet agent who defected, then converted to Christianity: The Persecutor by Sergei Kourdakov ($5.95). . . . Presbyterian minister Robert M. Healey pens The French Achievement: Private School Aid, a Lesson for America for the Catholic Paulist Press ($5.95; paperback, $3.95). . . . Martin Fido’s Oscar Wilde is illustrated (Viking, $12.95). . . . Ray Vicker, Wall Street Journal man in Europe, takes a quickie jaunt through The Kingdom of Oil (Scribner’s, $7.95). . . . Howard Mumford Jones weighs in—yes, that’s the phrase—with Revolution and Romanticism (Harvard, $15).