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Out Next Month: New collection of Buckleyana from Putnam: Execution Eve —and Other Contemporary Ballads ($8.95). For the same house, brother James contributes If Men Were Angels: A View from the Senate ($8.95), and Elliott Roosevelt continues his family study, again collaborating with James Brough, this time on A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts in the White House ($8.95). . . . Simple and Direct sums up Jacques Barzun’s advice for writers (Harper, $10). The same house follows last year’s big one with The Gulag Archipelago 2 ($15; paper, $2.50). Also from Harper, Ovid Demaris publishes a series of interviews with J. Edgar Hoover in The Director ($10.95).

Still etching those incomparable portraits of priests from the heartland, J. F. Powers assembles his first story collection since 1956, Look How the Fish Live (Knopf, $6.95). . . . Billy Graham affirms his belief in Angels and their power to help us (Doubleday, $4.95). . . . Finally, a translation of The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky by Victor Serge and Trotsky’s widow Natalia (Basic, $10.95). . . . Love or Nothing is a life of Ellen Terry by Tom Prideaux (Scribner’s, $10). For the same house, Michael Grant limns the outstanding Roman emperors in The Twelve Caesars ($12.50). . . . Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot is assembled by Frank Kermode for Farrar ($10.95; paper, $3.95). . . . Posthumous pragmatism from Alexander M. Bickel in The Morality of Consent (Yale, $10). . . . Former YAF chieftain Douglas Caddy anatomizes the new “reforms” in How They Rig Out-Elections (Arlington, $8.95).

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Out Next Month: New collection of Buckleyana from Putnam: Execution Eve —and Other Contemporary Ballads ($8.95). For the same house, brother James contributes If Men Were Angels: A View from the Senate ($8.95), and Elliott Roosevelt continues his family study, again collaborating with James Brough, this time on A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts in the White House ($8.95). . . . Simple and Direct sums up Jacques Barzun’s advice for writers (Harper, $10). The same house follows last year’s big one with The Gulag Archipelago 2 ($15; paper, $2.50). Also from Harper, Ovid Demaris publishes a series of interviews with J. Edgar Hoover in The Director ($10.95).

Still etching those incomparable portraits of priests from the heartland, J. F. Powers assembles his first story collection since 1956, Look How the Fish Live (Knopf, $6.95). . . . Billy Graham affirms his belief in Angels and their power to help us (Doubleday, $4.95). . . . Finally, a translation of The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky by Victor Serge and Trotsky’s widow Natalia (Basic, $10.95). . . . Love or Nothing is a life of Ellen Terry by Tom Prideaux (Scribner’s, $10). For the same house, Michael Grant limns the outstanding Roman emperors in The Twelve Caesars ($12.50). . . . Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot is assembled by Frank Kermode for Farrar ($10.95; paper, $3.95). . . . Posthumous pragmatism from Alexander M. Bickel in The Morality of Consent (Yale, $10). . . . Former YAF chieftain Douglas Caddy anatomizes the new “reforms” in How They Rig Out-Elections (Arlington, $8.95).