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More September Titles: Henry F. May has written a solid study called The Enlightenment in America (Oxford, $15) in which he examines the confluence of Protestantism and the continental Enlightenment in eighteenth century America, and the basis thus provided for the further development of the American Kultur…. Irving Kolodin comes forward with The Opera Omnibus: Four Centuries of Give and Take (Saturday Review Press/Dutton, $15)…. The subtle effects of one’s surroundings upon one’s mood, behavior, and feelings are examined by Albert Mehrabian in Public Places and Private Spaces: The Psychology of Work, Play, and Living Environments (Basic, $15.95)…. Helene Moglen offers you Charlotte Bronte: The Self-Conceived (Norton, $11.95): a psychobiography, not, as the title might imply, the foundation for a new religious cult…. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind Letters 1936—1949 (Macmillan, $12.95) consists of letters the author wrote to fans, frauds, etc., etc.-and is edited by Richard Harwell…. Axel Madsen, author of Malraux: A Biography (Morrow, $11.95), was unfortunately scooped last year by M. Jean Lacouture.

Vance Bourjaily’s new novel, Now Playing at Canterbury (Dial Press, $10), is strictly by the writer’s workshop, out of the academy…. Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (Simon & Schuster, $6.95) is by Richard Brautigan, and it is about… well, it’s about…. Raymond Massey, who has just written his memoirs, When I Was Young (Little, Brown, $10), is presently claiming total recall…. John G. Stoessinger, a rather pedestrian second string international-relations scholar, attempts in Henry Kissinger: The Anguish of Power (Norton, $8.95) to defend a friend against doubters and other vultures…. Everett S. Allen’s A Wind to Shake the World: The Story of the 1938 Hurricane (Little, Brown, $10) ought to give far more civilized disaster-entertainment than, say, Jaws.

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More September Titles: Henry F. May has written a solid study called The Enlightenment in America (Oxford, $15) in which he examines the confluence of Protestantism and the continental Enlightenment in eighteenth century America, and the basis thus provided for the further development of the American Kultur…. Irving Kolodin comes forward with The Opera Omnibus: Four Centuries of Give and Take (Saturday Review Press/Dutton, $15)…. The subtle effects of one’s surroundings upon one’s mood, behavior, and feelings are examined by Albert Mehrabian in Public Places and Private Spaces: The Psychology of Work, Play, and Living Environments (Basic, $15.95)…. Helene Moglen offers you Charlotte Bronte: The Self-Conceived (Norton, $11.95): a psychobiography, not, as the title might imply, the foundation for a new religious cult…. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind Letters 1936—1949 (Macmillan, $12.95) consists of letters the author wrote to fans, frauds, etc., etc.-and is edited by Richard Harwell…. Axel Madsen, author of Malraux: A Biography (Morrow, $11.95), was unfortunately scooped last year by M. Jean Lacouture.

Vance Bourjaily’s new novel, Now Playing at Canterbury (Dial Press, $10), is strictly by the writer’s workshop, out of the academy…. Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (Simon & Schuster, $6.95) is by Richard Brautigan, and it is about… well, it’s about…. Raymond Massey, who has just written his memoirs, When I Was Young (Little, Brown, $10), is presently claiming total recall…. John G. Stoessinger, a rather pedestrian second string international-relations scholar, attempts in Henry Kissinger: The Anguish of Power (Norton, $8.95) to defend a friend against doubters and other vultures…. Everett S. Allen’s A Wind to Shake the World: The Story of the 1938 Hurricane (Little, Brown, $10) ought to give far more civilized disaster-entertainment than, say, Jaws.