boy. Mickey delighted by first sights of Pittsburgh.

New York: Magistrate Anthony Maglio reveals stepup in rounding up "undesirables" in Times Square and Greenwich Village areas. (June, '56) Three to fivehundred patrol-wagon arrests nightly, similar to roundup last August when several thousand were arrested. (If New Yorkers justifiably feel this item should have more space, I would be glad to receive more details.)

RECOMMENDED READING:

Sir Compton MacKenzie's THIN ICE, a novel about an unsuccessful politician whose homosexuality paralells his downfall, by Scotland's leading novelist (author of original story for TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND.) 13s, 6d, Chatto & Windus.

Francoise Mallet-Joris' THE RED ROOM, sequel to THE ILLUSIONIST (also called THE LOVING AND THE DARING), excellent story of French girl who fell in love with father's mistress. This one perhaps emphasizes homosexuality less. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, $3.50.

The brief HOMOSEXUAL'S SUICIDE LETTER, in LOW DOWN, Sept. issue.

THE CRY OF THE KITE, Maarten Schiemer, 317 pp., Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50, an exotic novel of intrigue in Egypt (vaguely parallelling fall of Farouk), with a German homosexual among the villains.

THE TRAIN WAS ON TIME, Heinrich Böll, 142 pp., Criterion, $3.00, another excellent German war novel with homosexual passages.

EVERYWHERE I HAVE SOUGHT tranquility and have found it nowhere except in a corner with a book.

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