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THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN, by Louis Auchincloss. A better chronicler of Massachusetts' elite Groton School and its wise, eccentric founder, Endicott Peabody, could hardly be hoped for. In this intricate, fascinating chronicle of "Dr. Prescott" of "Justin," Author Auchincloss finally fulfills his longtime promise of major distinction as a novelist.
TWO NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. In these elegant and wickedly brilliant novellas about a masquerade ball and a lesbian schoolmistress, Brigid Brophy shows subtlety of both thought and style.
THE FAR FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. A posthumous selection of the poems Roethke wrote during the last seven years of his life celebrates movingly and prophetically "the last pure stretch of joy, the dire dimension of a final thing."
JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating, well-researched historical novel, yet it remains oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman Emperor whose turbulent 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between Hellenism and early Christianity.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (3 last week) 2. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (1.) 3. Armageddon, Uris (2) 4. Julian, Vidal (4) 5. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (5) 6. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (6) 7. This Rough Magic, Stewart 8. The 480, Burdick (7) 9. The Spire, Golding (9) 10. You Only Live Twice, Fleming
NONFICTION 1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1) 2. Harlow, Shulman (3) 3. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (2) 4. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (4) 5. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver (9) 6. Four Days, U.P.I. and American Heritage (5) 7. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (8) 8. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (6) 9. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (7) 10. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop
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