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THE GREAT VICTORIAN COLLEC–
TION, by Brian Moore. Farrar,
Straus, and Giroux, $7.95
In his tenth book , Brian Moore–
the versatile and much praised author
of The Lonely Passion of Judith
Hearne , I Am Mary Dunne, and most
recently , Catholics-has devised a
fiction that functions equally well as
an evocation of the vanished Vic–
torian world, as a narrative with
elements of the surreal and the oc–
cult , as a love story , as a satirical
view of the artist brought to bay by
middlemen , and of course as an en–
tertainment of the highest order.
THE UNDERGOUND GAME, a novel
by Francoise Mallet-Joris. Trans–
lated by Herma Briffault. Dutton,
$8.95
A haunting novel-about a writer in
pursuit of an idea that suddenly turns
and pursues him-by the prize-win–
ning French novelist whom The New
Yorker has called " a novelist of extra–
ordinary talent and high achieve–
men!."
THE UNCROWNED QUEEN OF IRE–
LAND: The Life of "Kitty" O'Shea, by
Joyce Marlow. Saturday Review
Press, $13.95
A full scale portrait of the ten-year
love affair and subsequent marriage
of Katherine O' Shea and Charles
Stewart Parnell , the great Irish na–
tionalist leader of the late nineteenth
century. "A brilliant tourde force that
is a biography of Mrs. O'Shea , a re–
cital of the scandal and a superb por–
trait of upper-middle-class life in Vic–
torian England"-ALDEN WHIT–
MAN , New York Times.
LAMY OF SANTA FE, by Paul Hor–
gan. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
$15.00
Few figures of nineteenth-century
America have appealed more to the
modern imagination than Juan
Bautista Lamy , f irst archbishop of
Santa Fe. Paul Horgan, who was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Great
River: The Rio Grande in North
American History, now gives us
Lamy 's definitive biography .
APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF
SOCIAL STRUCTURE, edited by
Peter M. Blau. Free Press, $12.95
The principal contending ap–
proaches to the analysis of social
structure are presented in the work of
some of the world's most eminent
sociologists. Contributors include :
Talcott Parsons , Robert K. Merton ,
Lewis A . Coser , Seymour Martin
Lipset , Thomas Bottomore , George
C . Homans, James S . Coleman ,
Gerhard Lenski, Robert S. Bierstedt,
and Peter M. Blau .
GUSTAV KLlMT, by Alessandra
Comini. (48 plates in full color.)
George Braziller, $15.00
Klimt's role in the development of
twentieth-century art is just being re–
alized . Dr. Comini treats his work in a
new manner , discussing his por–
traits , allegories , and landscapes as
separate facets , tracing the develop–
ment of each through to its culmina–
tion . Her text is heavily illustrated
with documentary photos of Klimt
and his associates , as well as with
comparative works of other artists ,
bringing a new dimension to the
understanding of the art of this extra–
ord inary man .
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGY
(In Three Volumes), edited by H.J.
Eysenck. Seabury Press, $75.00
For professionals and laymen , the
most accurate, readable compendi–
um of current psychological thought
ever assembled. This encyclopedia ,
with contributors and consultants
from 22 different countries , com–
bines the best of modern analytic
scholarship , clinical research , and
practical counseling and therapy.
EUROPE'S INNER DEMONS: An En–
quiry Inspired by the Great Witch–
Hunt, by Norman Cohn. Basic Books,
$12.50
Norman Cohn , author of the widely
acclaimed The Pursuit of the Millen–
nium , tracks down the facts behind
the European witch craze and ex–
plores the historical origins and psy–
chological manifestations of its col–
lective fantasies .
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