the story, "Saul", by Michael Mason, all about the subtle campaign “Susi” Wood conducts to win the favors of his hero, Saul. Although treating a very effeminate boy, it is well done and no "stereotripe" performance. On the other hand, Ruth Moore, noted for her Maine settings and and women's novels, has dipped into the most exaggerated untruths in her novel, The Sea Flower, Morrow, 1965. Tch Tch' Miss Moore, for making that old error confusing the homosexual male with the per-

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No reviewer likes to admit bafflement, so the best course might be to fail to mention this novel. But 1gnoring Francois Billetdoux's A Man and His Master, Hill and Wang, 1964 might deprive some more discerning soul of the opportunity to figure it all out. It is about Fernand, and his consuming involvement with Carnavaggio, to the extent that Carnav aggio becomes Fernand's master, and Fernand, for example, even has to bathe him. It is said to be Gallic hu mor, but my sense of humor apparently doesn't read French.

A very major book, quite overlooked, is We Think The World Of You, by JR. Ackerley, London, The Bodley Head, 1960, and N Y., Ivan Obolensky, 1962. The reader is in troduced to Frank, the kindly middleaged narrator, who loves Johnny, the only son of a scabrous family Johnny is a beautiful indigent speci men of worthless young manhood and Frank, quite helpless where Johnny is concerned, is led into caring for the "family" while Johnny serves a prison sentence for stealing. For his labor, he is rewarded by the phrase "we think the world of you." Depending upon individual experiences, you will laugh or cry over this one.

GENE DAMON

COMING IN DECEMBER

SNOW FALL, first of a threepart seria story by James Colton author of Lost on Twi light Road and Strange Marriage

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