Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

More April Titles: Representative Jack Kemp of New York has a book ready called Taking Back America: The Tax Revolt and the Revitalization of the American Spirit (Harper, $8.95). . . . Felix Morley, the distinguished founder of Human Events, will be publishing his autobiography, For the Record (Regnery/Gateway, $12.95).

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters 1940-1971 (Harper, $15), edited by Simon Karlinsky, contains 264 letters produced by a famous literary friendship. . . . David Cecil’s A Portrait of Jane Austen (Farrar, $19.95) makes use of the novelist’s letters and novels, and the recollections of acquaintances, to provide a picture with a little fresh dew on it. . . . There is also a new biography of the famous collector and art critic: Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (Harvard, $17.50) by Ernest Samuels. . . . Oh no: here’s a book coming called Empty Words (Wesleyan University Press, $16), and it’s by John Cage, the composer of sweet nothings.

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More April Titles: Representative Jack Kemp of New York has a book ready called Taking Back America: The Tax Revolt and the Revitalization of the American Spirit (Harper, $8.95). . . . Felix Morley, the distinguished founder of Human Events, will be publishing his autobiography, For the Record (Regnery/Gateway, $12.95).

The Nabokov-Wilson Letters 1940-1971 (Harper, $15), edited by Simon Karlinsky, contains 264 letters produced by a famous literary friendship. . . . David Cecil’s A Portrait of Jane Austen (Farrar, $19.95) makes use of the novelist’s letters and novels, and the recollections of acquaintances, to provide a picture with a little fresh dew on it. . . . There is also a new biography of the famous collector and art critic: Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur (Harvard, $17.50) by Ernest Samuels. . . . Oh no: here’s a book coming called Empty Words (Wesleyan University Press, $16), and it’s by John Cage, the composer of sweet nothings.