Just Out: Bargain of the year: The Best of C. S. Lewis. Includes The Screwtape Letters, The Case for Christianity, Miracles, The Great Divorce, and Christian Behavior—all for $6.95 (Canon Press). . . . Some of My Best Friends Are Christians, avers Paul Blanshard. And man bites dog (Open Court, $5.95). . . . NR contributor Stefan T. Possony projects his ideas on American strategy in Waking Up the Giant (Arlington, $14.95). . . . John Keats found tranquility, tradition, and natural beauty on one of the Thousand Islands, celebrates his discovery with Of Time and an Island (Charterhouse, $7.95). . . . Katherine Lyon Mix’s Max and the Americans is a study of Beerbohm loving and hating us (Stephen Greene, $12.50). . . . Edwardian Life and Leisure by Ronald Pearsall is good British social history (St. Martin’s, $8.50).
Paperbacks: Arthur Mizener’s 1951 life of Scott Fitzgerald, The Far Side of Paradise, coming in a revised edition from Avon (July, $1.50). . . . Mary Stewart revisits the Arthurian legend in The Hollow Hills (Dell, July, $1.75). . . . The Fatal Gift is a novel by NR contributor Alec Waugh (Manor, Aug., $1.75). . . . Come July, two interesting titles from Ballantine: Colin Simpson’s The Lusitania, lately the subject of a controversy in these pages ($1.50), and The Second Crash, Charles D. Ellis’ look at the market collapse of 1969, and how it just missed beating 1929 ($1.50). . . . Emmet John Hughes surveys The Living Presidency (Penguin, $2.95). . . . Upstairs at the White House was where J. B. West served as Chief Usher for three decades (Warner, Aug., $1.95). . . . From Viking, Auden’s A Certain World (out, $3.95). . . . Two important ones, both $3.95 from Meridian: The Making of Europe by Christopher Dawson and The Writings of Martin Buber, selected and introduced by NR contributor Will Herberg.
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