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Just Out: Sidney Hook still cherishes his Marxism-with-a-human-face in Revolution, Reform and Social Justice (NYU, $13.75). . . . Some essays on regulation by economist George J. Stigler: The Citizen and the State (Chicago, $10.95). . . . To Richard Reeves, he’s only A Ford, Not a Lincoln (Harcourt, $8.95). The same house offers Findings and Keepings, 1914-1936 by Lewis Mumford ($15) and My Father, Bertrand Russell by Katharine Tait ($8.95). . . . Sixty Photographs by Alfred A. Knopf is published by, surprise, Alfred A. Knopf ($10/$5.95). . . . The family chose Christopher Sykes to portray his old friend Evelyn Waugh (Little, Brown, $12.50). . . . All from American Heritage, all $8.95 till January 1, then $10: Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Lionel Casson, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Lionel Casson, Daily Life in the Renaissance by Charles L. Mee, Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Clara and Richard Winston, Daily Life in Victorian England by Christopher Hibbert.

Small wonder David E. Powell’s Antireligious Propaganda in the Soviet Union packs so much heft (MIT, $25). . . . Curtain will be Poirot’s last, insists Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead, $7.95). . . . Guy Lombardo’s autobiography, Auld Acquaintance, will be out in plenty of time for New Year’s Eve (Doubleday, $8.95). The same house has a memoir by Tennessee Williams ($8.95). . . . Tolkien translations from Middle England, in one volume: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Orfeo (Houghton, $6.95). . . . J. B. Priestley looks back on some of his Particular Pleasures, largely aesthetic (Stein & Day, $16.95). . . . Maybe George V. Higgins’ novelist’s eye will redeem his Watergate rehash, The Friends of Richard Nixon (Little, Brown, $10.95). . . . The Hard Years is a batch of Eugene McCarthy essays (Viking, $8.95).

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Just Out: Sidney Hook still cherishes his Marxism-with-a-human-face in Revolution, Reform and Social Justice (NYU, $13.75). . . . Some essays on regulation by economist George J. Stigler: The Citizen and the State (Chicago, $10.95). . . . To Richard Reeves, he’s only A Ford, Not a Lincoln (Harcourt, $8.95). The same house offers Findings and Keepings, 1914-1936 by Lewis Mumford ($15) and My Father, Bertrand Russell by Katharine Tait ($8.95). . . . Sixty Photographs by Alfred A. Knopf is published by, surprise, Alfred A. Knopf ($10/$5.95). . . . The family chose Christopher Sykes to portray his old friend Evelyn Waugh (Little, Brown, $12.50). . . . All from American Heritage, all $8.95 till January 1, then $10: Daily Life in Ancient Rome by Lionel Casson, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Lionel Casson, Daily Life in the Renaissance by Charles L. Mee, Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Clara and Richard Winston, Daily Life in Victorian England by Christopher Hibbert.

Small wonder David E. Powell’s Antireligious Propaganda in the Soviet Union packs so much heft (MIT, $25). . . . Curtain will be Poirot’s last, insists Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead, $7.95). . . . Guy Lombardo’s autobiography, Auld Acquaintance, will be out in plenty of time for New Year’s Eve (Doubleday, $8.95). The same house has a memoir by Tennessee Williams ($8.95). . . . Tolkien translations from Middle England, in one volume: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Orfeo (Houghton, $6.95). . . . J. B. Priestley looks back on some of his Particular Pleasures, largely aesthetic (Stein & Day, $16.95). . . . Maybe George V. Higgins’ novelist’s eye will redeem his Watergate rehash, The Friends of Richard Nixon (Little, Brown, $10.95). . . . The Hard Years is a batch of Eugene McCarthy essays (Viking, $8.95).