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CHILDREN AND OTHERS, by James Gould Cozzens. Many of the stories in this collection also concern a fashionable Eastern boarding school for boys, and if they come off less well, it is that they focus on the institution itself rather than the masters and boys. But Children and Others represents Cozzens at his most controlled, and therefore his best, and the writing is as precise as in Guard of Honor.
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."
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