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and satirical. Available through second-hand dealers in New York and London.

THE TREE AND THE VINE by Dola De Jong. London, John Calder, 1961.

A three-year love affair between two women living in Holland during 1938-1941 ends with the death of one in a concentration camp. Not a joyous book, but one relating to that era. A very A very major work, excellently done. Line drawings throughout the book add to enjoyment.

THE UNFORTUNATE FLESH by Randy Salom. Midwood Tower, 1960, 1961.

Jesse Cannon is inheritor of land and wealth in the South. Mannish, yet gentle, her type is rare in Lesbian fiction. She takes over the task of resolving her family's greed and problems. At the same time she shoulders the burdens of the pregnant mistress of her lately-deceased father. In a convincing and realistic manner Jesse is allowed to solve her many problems and court and win the love of the mistress. A really good living portrait of a Lesbian.

180. GIVE ME THYSELF by Susan Sherman. World, 1961.

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A first novel written in the first person, telling of a 19-year old girl and her ardent, undisciplined love for her much older teacher. The latter is a brilliant drunken mess, the end product of a magnificent career gone by the way. The book is a painful, even agonizing, account of a necessary but terrible love affair. The author is very young and her book is very youthful, but it is good and is certainly one of the big major treatments of Lesbian devotion.

HATE SONG by Boris Todrin.

MEN. Putnam, 1938.

Single poem in SEVEN

Lesbian poem written by a man lamenting the loss of his wife to another woman.