Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

Paperbacks: Of Other Worlds by C. S. Lewis is a mixed bag of essays, stories, and five chapters of an unfinished novel (Harvest, Oct., $2.75). The same house boxes the five volumes of The Autobiography of Leonard Woolf for $16.95 (Oct.). . . . Reissued: David Riesman’s Thorstein Veblen (Seabury, Sept., $3.95). . . . Oversized: The Art of Andrew Wyeth (N.Y. Graphic, $9.95). . . . The Silent Life is a reprint of an early Thomas Merton, before he trailed off into relevance (Noonday, $2.95). . . . New and important: Christopher Dawson’s Religion and World History, edited by James Oliver and the late author’s daughter, Christina Scott, to include previously unpublished writings (Image, $2.45). For the same imprint, Phyllis McGinley selects three hundred of her best poems in Times Three ($2.45). . . . Bantam has the second of James Herriot’s books about the world’s best-loved veterinarian, All Things Bright and Beautiful ($1.95).

October Books: Whitney North Seymour Jr. catalogues his political grudges in United States Attorney (Morrow, $8.95). The same house offers Kyra Karadja’s memoir of the Russian Revolution and the sufferings endured by her upper-class family in Kyra ($8.95). . . . C. P. Snow portrays Trollope: His Life and Art for Scribner ($17.50). . . . Harrison Salisbury essays a novel about a Russian dissident writer who is sent into exile, The Gates of Hell (Random, $10). . . . Mary Renault turns from fictional portraits of Alexander the Great to straight biography in The Nature of Alexander (Pantheon; $15 to Jan. 1, then $17.95). . . . Have the Soviets managed to re-program human nature? Not according to Yuri Brokhin, Russian film director (and onetime gypsy cab driver). He examines the seamy side of life under Marxism in Hustling on Gorky Street: Sex and Crime in Russia. The publisher, Dial Press, doesn’t mention whether Brokhin has fled, gone underground, or left himself public and vulnerable ($7.95).

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Paperbacks: Of Other Worlds by C. S. Lewis is a mixed bag of essays, stories, and five chapters of an unfinished novel (Harvest, Oct., $2.75). The same house boxes the five volumes of The Autobiography of Leonard Woolf for $16.95 (Oct.). . . . Reissued: David Riesman’s Thorstein Veblen (Seabury, Sept., $3.95). . . . Oversized: The Art of Andrew Wyeth (N.Y. Graphic, $9.95). . . . The Silent Life is a reprint of an early Thomas Merton, before he trailed off into relevance (Noonday, $2.95). . . . New and important: Christopher Dawson’s Religion and World History, edited by James Oliver and the late author’s daughter, Christina Scott, to include previously unpublished writings (Image, $2.45). For the same imprint, Phyllis McGinley selects three hundred of her best poems in Times Three ($2.45). . . . Bantam has the second of James Herriot’s books about the world’s best-loved veterinarian, All Things Bright and Beautiful ($1.95).

October Books: Whitney North Seymour Jr. catalogues his political grudges in United States Attorney (Morrow, $8.95). The same house offers Kyra Karadja’s memoir of the Russian Revolution and the sufferings endured by her upper-class family in Kyra ($8.95). . . . C. P. Snow portrays Trollope: His Life and Art for Scribner ($17.50). . . . Harrison Salisbury essays a novel about a Russian dissident writer who is sent into exile, The Gates of Hell (Random, $10). . . . Mary Renault turns from fictional portraits of Alexander the Great to straight biography in The Nature of Alexander (Pantheon; $15 to Jan. 1, then $17.95). . . . Have the Soviets managed to re-program human nature? Not according to Yuri Brokhin, Russian film director (and onetime gypsy cab driver). He examines the seamy side of life under Marxism in Hustling on Gorky Street: Sex and Crime in Russia. The publisher, Dial Press, doesn’t mention whether Brokhin has fled, gone underground, or left himself public and vulnerable ($7.95).