publisher by disposition as well as heritage who lives luxuriously in New York with his faithful man-servant, Custer, an old family retainer. Custer rightly disapproves of Walter Roland, a handsome but untalented actor who satisfies Sam's physical needs for the sake of his own comforts. His dearest friend is a former employee of his Adeline, pregnant by her irate husband, Toby, who rightfully but unfairly and even viciously reacts to their friendship with brutality and and sadism going beyond the pale.

Sam gives a large party to help Walter get a part in a new show, even though he is aware that if the part is Walter's that he will have to give Walter up to the leading lady, an aging actress with a large following and a larger penchant for men younger than herself. The party crystalizes all the ill-feeling pent up in Toby, in Jane, a former girl friend of Walter's, in the McKenzie's (she is to produce the new play) and in Walter and Sam. Reeve Keary, an aging tante appears as a gadfly to worsen the situation. Walter goes off to the aging actress and Sam to the Turkish Bath.

It is the adroit and capable handling of the situations that now evolve, the tradgedies that ensue, the loves that slowly begin to emerge that makes SAM the pleasant reading that it is. For the people are recognizable and for the most part rather true to life, or to those portions of life to which Mr. Coleman here has chosen to confine himself. Sam is a little wooden, Richard (who appears late in the book) is almost too good to be true, Toby is not completely realized and has all the cards against him, but with all this there is a certain native honesty that gives the book some distinction.

Unfortunately the library of homosexual literature is so small that SAM will shape larger on our shelves than it might otherwise. In any case it would earn the space it took.

Think of it, a happy ending, and a touch of humor, too!

EDGE OF TWILIGHT

M.F.B.

by Paula Christian, Crest Book, 158 pages, 35¢.

A Normal approach for a change! And with an ending that promises a beginning!

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A talented young man of complex emotions afraid to face the terrible suspicion that he is a homosexual.

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