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NOTORIOUS LADIES OF THE FRONTIER by Harry Sinclair Drago. 270 pages. Dodd, Mlead. $6. What drove the West wild was ladies named Millie Hipps, Mattie Silks, Mammy Pleasant, Madame Moustache, Lurline Monte Verdi and Silver Dollar. Carefully chronicled and not a cuss word throughout.
JULIUS CAESAR by Michael Grant. 271 pages, illustrated. McGraw-Hill. $12.95. Et tu, McGraw-Hill?
Religion and Culture
THE RAW AND THE COOKED: INTRODUCTION TO A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY, VOL. I by Claude Levi-Strauss. 387 pages. Harper & Row. $10. In a book much talked about since its 1964 publication in France, the world's most fascinating social anthropologist studies scores of primitive mythologies, searching for a common code that he hopes will reveal the laws that govern the creative workings of the human mind.
NEW HEAVEN, NEW EARTH by Kenelm Burridge. 191 pages. Schocken Books. $5.50. The vision of the millennium as a golden age of freedom and affluence is a quasi-religious phenomenon that occurs in decaying cultures. In examining a number of millenary movements among primitive peoples, Anthropologist Burridge observes a quaint custom of the behavioral sciences by elaborating the obvious, painfully.
MEN AND ANGELS by Theodora Ward. 241 pages. Viking. $7.50. Angelic evolution—from divine messenger to artistic symbol—delicately traced through religion, literature and the dark corners of the human mind.
THE FEAST OF FOOLS by Harvey Cox. 204 pages. Harvard University. $5.95. A secular theologian urges a return to the medieval facility for joy—as in the current return to dance, mime, jazz and rhythmic movement in worship.
THOSE FABULOUS PHILADELPHIANS by Herbert Kupferberg. 257 pages. Scribner. $7.95. A chronicle of the Philadelphia Orchestra from turn-of-the-century birth pangs to Eugene Ormandy's reflections on the famed Philadelphia sound ("It's me").
THE APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS (3 vols.): ARCHITECTURE by Sinclair Gauldie. 193 pages. $8.50; SCULPTURE bv L R. Rogers. 242 pages. $9.75; DRAWING by Philip Rawson. 322 pages. $9.75. Oxford. Handsomely produced for smaller coffee tables.
A POSSIBLE THEATRE by Sfuarf Vaughan. 255 pages. McGraw-Hill. $6.95. Able Actor-Director Vaughan left Broadway 15 years ago with egocentrifugal force, but this account of his subsequent travels and travails has the prose urgency of a milk train.
Criticism and the Contemporary Scene
THE YEAR OF THE PEOPLE by Eugene J. McCarthy. 323 pages. Doub/eday. $6.95. Though ostensibly about what happened, McCarthy's book is really about the man, his charm, his wit, his occasional smugness, above all his poetic third eye on himself and his surroundings. An unwitting reminder of the 1968 paradox that those seeking cleaner, simpler political truths chose as hero the most complex politician in the nation.
WE WERE THE CAMPAIGN by Ben Sfavis. 206 pages. Beacon. $7.50 (paper, $2.95). A graduate student turned activist provides a nuts-and-bolts report on the other half of the McCarthy phenomenon, the get-clean-for-'Gene "children's crusade."