■ Just Out: William Emboden undertakes a pictorial biography of Sarah Bernhardt for Macmillan ($10.95). At first you won’t believe that the same publisher is also unveiling Dog Days at the White House—a scholarly assessment of King Timahoe, Fala, and other First Canines by retired presidential dogkeeper Traphes L. Bryant ($8.95). . . . For Norton, Ben Bradlee of Newsweek records his Conversations with [Jack] Kennedy ($7.95) and Princeton’s Robert C. Tucker amasses a huge Lenin Anthology ($18.95). . . . Donald Lambro of UPI’s Washington bureau follows your tax dollars down The Federal Rathole (Arlington, $7.95). The same publisher issues attorney Frank Carrington’s tough book on crime and permissiveness, The Victims ($9.95).
A novel from Tennessee Williams: Moise and the World of Reason (Simon & Schuster, $6.95). From the same house, James Pope Hennessy’s life of Robert Louis Stevenson ($9.95). . . . Herbert L. Matthews retains his enthusiasm for Revolution in Cuba (Scribner, $15). . . . The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible takes a conservative approach (Zondervan, five vols. boxed, $79.95). . . . Parts of a Lifetime is a big collection of Djilas’ writings, some not published before (Harcourt, $15). . . . Still absorbed in his favorite subject, Philip Roth’s latest is Reading Myself and Others (Farrar, $8.95). . . . Prepub enthusiasm for Women in the Wall, historical novel of sixth century Gaul by Sean O’Faolain’s daughter Julia (Viking, $8.95). . . . Another nautical novel by C. Northcote Parkinson, The Fireship (Houghton, $6.95).
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