■ November Titles: T. Y. Crowell has two more by George T. Simon, tireless chronicler of the big-band era: The Big Bands Songbook ($14.95 till Christmas, then $16.95) and an update, edited by Mr. Simon, of Esquire’s World of Jazz ($17.95). . . . Averell Harriman collaborates with Elie Abel on a memoir, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin 1941- 1946 (Random, $15). From the same publisher comes Write if You Get Work: The Best of Bob and Ray by radio’s Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding ($6.95). . . . Jung by Laurens van der Post is based partly on interviews (Pantheon, $12.95). . . . Roger Blough, ex-boss of U.S. Steel, sees The Washington Embrace of Business growing more heated, advises businessmen to relax and enjoy it (Columbia, $8.95). One of Blough’s predecessors, Charles M. Schwab, looms larger, as Robert Hessen says in Steel Titan (Oxford, $14.95).
A major work by NR contributor Ernest van den Haag: Punishing Criminals (Basic, $10.95). . . . Margaret Lane contributes the latest entry, generously illustrated, in the Johnson revival: Samuel Johnson and His World (Harper, $17.95). . . . Ronald W. Clark portrays Bertrand Russell and Walter Kerr recalls The Silent Clowns (Keaton, Chaplin, et al.), each $15 from Knopf. . . . Dutton unveils Chris Welles’s irreverent look at Wall Street, The Last Days of the Club ($15). . . . Still writing, and now portrayed by Richard H. Goldstone, is Thornton Wilder (Saturday Review Press, $11.95). . . . Literature and Liberalism is an anthology from The New Republic, published by itself ($15). . . . Somebody just found General George C. Marshall’s Memoirs of My Service in the World War 1917-1918, written in the early Twenties but never before published (Houghton, $8.95).
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