■ Just out: Population Control: For and Against suggests that Big Brother in the boudoir is now considered thinkable (Hart, $7.50; paper, $2.45). . . . The Corrupt Kingdom is a study of the United Mine Workers by Joseph E. Finley (Simon & Schuster, $8.95). . . . The same publisher offers The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell, compiled and edited by Barry Feinberg ($9.95). . . . Catholics is a novel by Brian Moore that British critics greeted warmly (Holt, $4.95). … A Land of Our Own is Golda Meir’s autobiography (Putnam, $6.95). . . . Philip Larkin edits The Oxford Book of the Twentieth-Century English Verse ($12.50). . . . Peter Quennell portrays Samuel Johnson, His Friends and Enemies (McGraw-Hill, $12.95). . . . Spellbound in Darkness is an illustrated history of the silent film by George C. Pratt (N.Y. Graphic, $22.50; paper, $8.95).
■ Out Next Month: For Farrar: a collection of Edmund Wilson essays, The Devils and Canon Barham ($7.95); Wilfrid Sheed’s new novel, Miracle Cure ($6.95); and a collection of Moravia’s stories, Bought and Sold ($6.95). . . . The Call Girls is Arthur Koestler’s first novel since 1951 (Random, $5.95). . . . Maybe there’s somebody who’ll pay $29.95 to see if he made Earl Blackwell’s Celebrity Register (Simon & Schuster). . . . Communism has nothing to fear when Prince Sihanouk confides his “memoirs” to Wilfred Burchett in My War with the CIA. If you see an unfavorable review in anything to the left of Reader’s Digest, frame it (Pantheon, $7.95). . . . For $60, N.Y. Graphic Society will sell you The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson by Ronald de Waal.
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