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Just Out: A dozen essays by Rexford Guy Tugwell, still In Search of Roosevelt (Harvard, $12.95). . . . Volume I of the long-awaited Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary ($50) carries us from A through G—and tolerates “author” as a verb (“an Americanism”). Remaining two volumes due out over the next five years.

January Titles: Daughter Margaret issues a big book about Harry S. Truman (Morrow, $10.95). . . . Volume 2 of Nadezhda Mandelstam’s warmly praised Hope against Hope is due from Atheneum ($10). . . . Jess Steam’s The Search for a Soul: Taylor Caldwell’s Psychic Lives is, yes, a series of biographies of Miss Caldwell’s earlier epiphanies (Doubleday, $7.95). Whereas Doubleday acknowledges Daphne du Maurier’s Rule Britannia to be fiction. It’s about life tomorrow in the new English-speaking union, “USUK” ($6.95). . . . The Legend of John Brown is the first of a two-volume life by Richard O. Boyer (Knopf, $12.50). . . . The Dreyfus Case is a massive study by Louis L. Snyder (Rutgers, $20).

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Just Out: A dozen essays by Rexford Guy Tugwell, still In Search of Roosevelt (Harvard, $12.95). . . . Volume I of the long-awaited Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary ($50) carries us from A through G—and tolerates “author” as a verb (“an Americanism”). Remaining two volumes due out over the next five years.

January Titles: Daughter Margaret issues a big book about Harry S. Truman (Morrow, $10.95). . . . Volume 2 of Nadezhda Mandelstam’s warmly praised Hope against Hope is due from Atheneum ($10). . . . Jess Steam’s The Search for a Soul: Taylor Caldwell’s Psychic Lives is, yes, a series of biographies of Miss Caldwell’s earlier epiphanies (Doubleday, $7.95). Whereas Doubleday acknowledges Daphne du Maurier’s Rule Britannia to be fiction. It’s about life tomorrow in the new English-speaking union, “USUK” ($6.95). . . . The Legend of John Brown is the first of a two-volume life by Richard O. Boyer (Knopf, $12.50). . . . The Dreyfus Case is a massive study by Louis L. Snyder (Rutgers, $20).