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BE
ST SE
LL
ER
LIST
T
his F
iction Ja
n,
1
Dec. W
eeks 25
on list
Week
1 T
he S
ecret of S
anta V
ittoria.
Crichton
1
1
17 2
Capable of H
onor. Drury
2
2 15
3
Valley of the D
olls. Suw
on . .
3
3
44 4
T
he Birds F
all Dow
n. West
. 4
4 11
S T
he Mask of A
pollo. Ren
ault ..
6 6
8 6
Tai-P
an. M
eet!
6
7 31
7 T
he F
ixer.
Malantutl
7
8
15 8
A D
ream of K
ings. Patrakis
9 10
9
All in the F
amily. O
'Connor
. 8
6 12
10 T
he Adventurers. R
obbins
10 10
41
General
1 E
verything but Money. L
evenson 2
2 16
2
Rush to Judgm
ent. Lane
1
1
18
3 G
ames P
eople Play. B
erne
4
3
76 4
Ho
w to
Av
oid
Pro
bate. N
osy
.
3
4 39
5 P
aper Lion. P
limpton
8
2
6
Win
ston S
. Church
ill. C
hurchill 6
9 5
7
Th
e Jury
Retu
rns. N
icer
5 8
5
8
With K
ennedy. &
linger
10
6 14
9 T
he Random
House D
ictionary of the E
nglish Language
7
5
8 10
Th
e Bo
ston
Stran
gler. F
rank .
9 '7
8
As a
naly
sla
Dosed
on
rep
orts
irons m
ore
th
an 1
25 h
ooketo
res in 0
4 U
. S. co
nonnnitien
. F
igu
res in
the rig
ht-h
an
d
cohonn
do
no
t n
ecessarily rep
reseat co
nsecu
tive ap
pea
ran
ces.
NE
W A
ND
RE
CO
MM
EN
DE
D
Fiction
Fiv
e Sm
ooth
Sto
nes, b
y A
nn F
airbairn
. The sto
ry o
f a g
oo
d m
an, a N
egro
child
of th
e dep
ression
, and
w
hat h
appen
s to h
im as h
e gro
ws o
lder.
The B
eautiful Life, by E
dwin G
ilbert. A. tongue-in-cheek
glan
ce at the w
ays o
f New
York
society
in th
ese years o
f the jet ag
e.
Th
e Wo
men
With
the L
ittle Fo
x; b
y V
iolette L
edu
c. T
hree n
ovellas, o
n ch
ildhood, ag
e, death
, by th
e au
thor o
f "La B
atarde."
Waitin
g fo
r Win
ter, by Jo
hn O
'Hara. C
ollectio
n o
f sh
ort sto
ries by a m
an w
ith a p
hoto
grap
hic as w
ell as a p
honograp
hic m
emory
.
General
Diary
of an
Art D
ealer. by
Ren
e Gim
pel. F
ine p
ortraits
of an
age in
Fran
ce and A
merica as w
ell as fine
444'‘I
po
rtraits of p
eop
le in b
oth
places.
Mon C
her P
apa: F
ranklin
and th
e Lad
ies of P
aris, by
Claude-A
nne Lopez. D
elightful account of the ladies in
the life o
f a 70-y
ear-old
statesman
.
Tell M
e, Tell M
e: Gran
ite Steel an
d O
ther T
opics, b
y
Marian
ne M
oo
re. First co
llection
of p
oem
s since
1959, on a wide range of subjects.
, Miss M
ary C
assatt: Imp
ression
ist from
Pen
nsy
lvan
ia, b
y F
rederick
A. S
weet, an
d M
ary C
assatt, by
Julia
M. H
. Carso
n. T
wo
abo
ut th
e Am
erican ex
patriate
figure p
ainter an
d etch
er.
Ey LEW
IS NIC
HO
LS
Non
-Writers
Nestlin
g in
a deep
snow
drift o
f pub
lishers'
catalogues o
f books fo
r the sp
ring seaso
n w
as a catalo
gu
e sent o
ut b
y T
reffItch's B
ird an
d
Anim
al Co, In
c. Say
s you can
buy a fem
ale ele
phant, "tra
ined to
lead" (a
h, th
ere
), for
*3,500, an
d a
com
mo
n c
ob
ra fo
r $30
. Bo
th
guaran
teed h
ealthy, n
either g
uaran
teed to
write
fiction.
Hyp
nosis
The clien
ts of atto
rney
F
. Lee B
ailey seem
ben
t on fillin
g th
e booksh
elves. A
couple o
f w
eeks ag
o, th
ere came o
ut a b
oo
k called
"En
-dure and C
onquer," Dr. S
am S
heppard's account of th
e 12 y
ears which
preced
ed h
is recent ac-
quittal o
n th
e charg
e of m
urd
ering h
is first w
ife. Now
, from
a firm k
now
n as P
ow
er Pub-
lishers in
Irvin
gto
n, N
. J., there arriv
es a wo
rk
entitled
"Get S
lim an
d S
tay S
lim w
ith H
yp
-nosis." T
he au
thor o
f this is D
r. Carl A
. Cop-
polino, lately acquitted of strangling a neighbor, L
ieut. C
ol, W
illiam E
. Farb
er, but cu
rrently
u
nd
er ind
ictmen
t on
a charg
e of m
urd
ering
his
first wife in
Flo
rida. T
he latter b
ook is n
ot a
qu
ickie, w
as vn
itten o
ver a y
ear ago
. Harry
A
rens, th
e head
of P
ow
er Publish
ers, met D
r. C
op
po
lino
som
e e
igh
t mo
nth
s ag
o, a
sked
w
heth
er he h
ad, m
aybe, a b
ook. D
r. C. said
he lead
two—
one o
n th
innin
g b
y h
ypnosis, th
e oth
er on h
ow
to sto
p sm
okin
g b
y d
itto. P
ow
er, w
hich
publish
es work
s on h
ypnosis, d
eclined
th
e secon
d, accep
ted th
e first, did
som
e wo
rk
on
it and
the b
oo
k w
as ready
at abo
ut th
e time
the ju
ry re
turn
ed. It's to
o e
arly
to te
ll yet
abo
ut sales.
Of T
ravel
This Is th
e tim
e o
f year w
hen a
student's
fancy
turn
s to trav
el abro
ad, an
d it can
't be
said h
e'll get n
o ad
vice. T
he H
arvard
Stu
den
t A
gen
cies has ju
st bro
ught o
ut th
e 1987 ed
ition
of "L
et's Go
: Th
e Stu
den
t Guid
e To
Eu
rop
e,"
this w
ritten b
y an
d fo
r studen
ts. In a m
onth
o
r two
. Sim
on
& S
ch
uste
r will b
ring
ou
t "W
here th
e Fun Is A
Pan
Am
Young T
ravel-
ers Guid
e," written
by stu
den
ts. And late th
is m
onth
, Arth
ur F
rom
mer, In
c., will b
ring o
ut
a so
rt of e
lder sta
tesm
an a
mong b
ooks o
n
bu
dg
etin
g tra
vel, "E
uro
pe o
n $
5 a
Day
," w
ritten b
y A
rthur F
rom
mer. T
his la
st isn'
necessarily
desig
ned
for stu
den
ts, but is h
lghl
regard
ed b
y th
em—
plu
s the y
ou
ng
In h
eart an
light o
f purse.
The n
ew ed
ition o
f "Euro
pe o
n $
5 a
Da
is the te
nth
, and, sin
ce th
ere
were
175,
copies so
ld o
f the n
inth
, is a very
pro
fitab
cashing-in of what began as a hobby. M
r. Fro
mer started
out as a law
yer (Y
ale Law
, '53
wen
t into
milita
ry se
rvic
e, tra
vele
d a
bo
E
uro
pe w
hile th
erein, d
ecided
on a little g
uid
e-
boo
k fo
r his frien
ds. H
is friends lik
ed it, so
he
decid
ed o
n a co
mm
ercial prin
ting, an
d th
is was
liked
also. In
'63, h
e aban
doned
law in
ord
er to
beco
me a fu
ll-time p
ub
lisher, an
d "E
uro
pe o
n
$5 a Day" now
has over a dozen companions—
"Mex
ico o
n $
5 a D
ay," "Th
e Carib
bean
on
$5
an
d $
10
a Day
," etc. No
te that $
10
figu
re. Th
e co
min
g ed
ition
of "E
uro
pe" m
ay b
e the last at
just $
5 a
day, fo
r as y
ou'v
e g
ath
ere
d fro
m
readin
g, w
atchin
g T
V o
r even
bu
yin
g cig
a-rettes, p
rices aren't w
hat th
ey w
ere. Alth
ough
a nu
mb
er of o
thers w
rite the co
mp
anio
n v
ol-
um
es, the p
ub
lisher, h
imself, d
oes "E
uro
pe."
He m
akes se
vera
l trips th
ere
per y
ear, h
as
thousan
ds o
f peo
ple w
ho w
rite in w
ith su
gges-
tions=
and, in
short, h
e is leavin
g a b
all. Foot-
note: In
the m
iddle o
f galley
pro
of co
rrections,
he h
ad to
fly to
F
loren
ce to see w
hat effect
the flo
ods h
ad o
n th
e chap
ter about th
at city.
Favorites
The L
ondon p
apers h
ave a p
leasant h
abit o
f ask
ing
vario
us w
riters at end
of y
ear to say
w
hat th
ey m
ost e
njo
yed
readin
g. H
ere
are
so
me o
f the rep
lies record
ed b
y T
he O
bserv
er: W
. H. A
uden favored Lorenz's "O
n Aggression,"
Fred
erick H
eer's "The In
tellectual H
istory
of
Euro
pe," a
nd Ilsa
Bare
a'a
"Vie
nna." M
ary
M
cCarth
y fav
ored
"Priso
n N
otes" b
y B
arbara
Dem
ing a
nd "A
House
in O
rder" b
y N
igel
Den
nis. A
rthur K
oestler lik
ed o
ur o
wn "P
apa
Hem
ing
way
" by
A. E
. Ho
tchn
er. In fictio
n,
John W
ain
gave a
vote to
Christin
a Stead
's recen
tly rep
rinted
"The M
an W
ho Loved C
hil-dren
." Both
Kin
gsley
Ands an
d Jo
hn O
sborn
e cast a v
ote fo
r, among o
ther b
ooks, Jo
hn B
etje-m
an's "H
igh
and
Lo
w."
Ad
d C
oth
ics
Last w
eek th
ere was a n
ote h
ere abo
ut th
e various pseudonym
s used by Michael A
vallone in
writin
g g
oth
ic rom
ances. T
his w
eek let th
ere be a n
ote ab
out th
e iden
tity o
f Victo
ria Holt,
a tow
ering fig
ure o
f the g
oth
ics ("Brid
e of
Pen
do
rric," "Mistress o
f Melly
n"). F
or a lo
ng
tim
e, she w
as rum
ored
to b
e just an
oth
er nam
e fo
r Dap
hn
e Du
Man
ner, also
a tow
ering
figu
re, not o
nly
for g
oth
ics. Not so
. "Contem
porary
A
uth
ors," seek
ing a b
iograp
hy o
f Victo
ria Holt
for In
clusio
n in
a new
editio
n, fin
ally track
ed
her down as one of the pen nam
es used by Mrs.
Elean
or H
ibb
ert, a British
auth
or. S
aid M
iss D
u M
aurier, ab
out th
e end o
f the ru
mor, "w
ish
yo
u w
ou
ld sq
uash
it."
Pu
blish
ers' Ro
w
Late th
is mo
nth
, Pren
tice-Hall w
ill pu
blish
the 65th volum
e in Sts T
wentieth C
entury View
s S
eries—"F
aulk
ner," a co
llection o
f critical es-say
s edited
by
Ro
bert P
enn
Warren
. All th
e o
ther b
oo
ks in
the series are 1
92
pag
es; this
on
e will b
e 81
1. T
he series w
as beg
un
in 1
96
2,
with a volum
e on Cam
us, and its over-all editor is M
aynard Mack, professor of E
nglish at Yale.
. . Ded
ication o
f "Dow
n to
the S
ea in S
ubs,"
by
Ch
arles A. L
ock
wo
od
, vice-ad
miral U
.S.N
., retired
—"T
his b
oo
k Is resp
ectfully
and
affec- tionately dedicated to
big,
A
dm
ir Cheste
rv.W
r57ith
e P
acific
and
s I. Lock
wood in
our h
om
e." The b
ook
com
es from
No
rton
late this m
on
th.. . . D
ell has ju
st bro
ught o
ut a p
aperb
ack, "W
hitew
ash:
Th
e Rep
ort o
n th
e Warren
Rep
ort," b
y H
arold
W
eisberg
. In an
intro
du
ction
, the au
tho
r says
it was o
ffered to
63
Un
ited S
tates pu
blish
ers o
ver a 1
4-m
on
th p
eriod
, and
to 1
1 p
ublish
ers in
8 o
ther co
un
tries.... Ch
ristop
her Ish
erwo
od
has a new
novel coming from
Sim
on & S
chuster in
April. It is called
"A. M
eeting b
y th
e Riv
er," an
d Is th
e story
of tw
o b
roth
ers, one a b
ook
ublisher.
IN A
ND
OU
T O
F B
OO
KS
8 T
HE
NE
W Y
OR
K T
IME
S B
OO
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IEW
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