Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

Last October Titles: Germaine Greer, the British feminist, has worked four years to answer the question, Why are there no women painters? In The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work (Farrar, $25), she argues that there are. (But are they great?) . . . Lawrence Dader’s Power on the Left: American Radical Movements Since 1945 (Norton, $16.95) argues that in the Sixties the Left “[shook and shaped] the decisions and direction of the country as few other forces in American history since abolitionism.” The prose sample is typical of the whole. . . . The Letters of Karl Marx (Prentice-Hall, $19.95), as selected, translated, annotated, and introduced by Saul K. Padover, are now available.

Some November Titles: Konrad Lorenz, whose charming book King Solo-man’s Ring appeared in 1952, has written a book called The Year of the Grayleg Goose (Harcourt, $25). . . . You may not think of Ernest Hemingway as a poet, but 88 Poems (Harcourt, $8.95), by the prose master himself, will shortly be available. . . .

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Last October Titles: Germaine Greer, the British feminist, has worked four years to answer the question, Why are there no women painters? In The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work (Farrar, $25), she argues that there are. (But are they great?) . . . Lawrence Dader’s Power on the Left: American Radical Movements Since 1945 (Norton, $16.95) argues that in the Sixties the Left “[shook and shaped] the decisions and direction of the country as few other forces in American history since abolitionism.” The prose sample is typical of the whole. . . . The Letters of Karl Marx (Prentice-Hall, $19.95), as selected, translated, annotated, and introduced by Saul K. Padover, are now available.

Some November Titles: Konrad Lorenz, whose charming book King Solo-man’s Ring appeared in 1952, has written a book called The Year of the Grayleg Goose (Harcourt, $25). . . . You may not think of Ernest Hemingway as a poet, but 88 Poems (Harcourt, $8.95), by the prose master himself, will shortly be available. . . .