ing 1800 copies, has been excellently edited by Rolf since 1942. It was started by a woman a rarity in European homophile publications.

THE LADDER, now in its 9th issue (from DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS, 693 Mission St., San Francisco 5) blossoming into strong newsletter.

Seances in N.Y.C.? New York Mattachine Newsletter for May announced Dr. HAVELOCK Ellis speaker, listed him as author of FOLKLORE OF SEX and PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX. The speech announced was one Dr. ALBERT Ellis of N.Y. wrote

for ONE'S 1957 Midwinter Institute and was printed in the Feb. '57 ONE. Dr. HAVELOCK Ellis, the great English sexologist, died in 1939 ... Village Theatre Center Book Service Newsletter reports news of 3 persons working independently on bibliographies of literature on homosexual themes

so's ONE INSTITUTE, and would like to hear from others...

James (Barr) Fugate reports he has a new manuscript in hands of a publisher "lashing into THE SUBJECT as viciously as I ever attemped to uphold it."

RECOMMENDED READING

SEX VARIANT WOMEN IN LITERATURE, A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeanette H. Foster, Ph.D., Vantage Press, New York, 412 pp; Biblio.; Index; $5.00. Thorough discussion of some 300 literary works! on Lesbianism from Sappho to present.

THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE, by Roger Burlingame, Knopf, 420 pp, $6.75, study of changing moral judgements of Americans since early colonial times.

THE PLASTIC FABRIC, a moving first novel on an English homosexualhetero love triangle, by Martyn Goff, Putnam, 15s.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF SEX, a worldly little sermon arguing that has crowded courage, faith, honor and love out of contemporary literature, by Robert Elliot Fitch, Dean of Pacific School of Religion, Harcourt, 114 pp, $3.

NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT, by James Yaffee, another fictionalizing (set in contemporary New York) of Leopold-Loeb case. $3.95.

THE ACCUSING GHOST; or JUSTICE FOR CASEMENT, by Alfred Noyes, Gollancz, 15s, latest in continuing mystery of allegedly forged diaries which by their "revelation" of homosexuality, sent the Irish revolutionary hero to gallows.

About Our Authors....

David Cornel De Jong was born in the Netherlands. He attended both Duke and Brown Universities; has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. He's been widely published as novelist, short story writer and poet by such publishers as Harper's, Knopf, Doubleday, etc. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and two children.

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