QUEER TRIANGLE by Wallace Hearn, Vantage Press, 1961, $2.50, 84 pp.

This first novel by Wallace Hearn is slightly misnamed; it should have been entitled "Queer Book," and the queer thing about the book is that it ever got published at all. The plot of this tiny book is an abysmal miasma, loosely held together by some downright unbelievably stilted dialogue spouted by some lifeless, drab characters inspiringly named Bill, Bob, Marty and Lucky.

The book purports to "shed dra-

matic light on that baffling human being the male homosexual," but if you can imagine a plot not far removed from Gone With the Wind or Anthony Adverse in its complexity and multiplicity of incidents related in eighty-four pages you can accurately estimate the psychological penetration which Mr. Hearn brings to his characters, and, evaluate his contribution to an understanding of homosexuality.

Any further attempt to capsule this wretched little book would be as wasted as was the time spent in reading it. Edouard Marques

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A NEARNESS OF EVIL, Carley Mills

A first novel, just out, about fashionable turn-of-the century German-Jewish society in New Jersey. Bobby Randall (né Rindshauer) early exhausts all the simple pleasures of his mother's wealth and turns to explore the excitements of homosexual love. During the Roaring Twenties Bobby emigrates to the Riviera, where he holds forth with true Roman profligacy-free from the restraints of his mother as well as puritan American society. Carley Mills provides a sordid portrait of the aging Bobby as a decaying Auntie who makes the front pages in a sensational climax.

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CAMEL'S FAREWELL, Harry Otis

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Another round of gay adventures by the author of THE KEVAL; this time a fascinating, intriguing jaunt through Darkest Africa.

IN THE TIME OF GREENBLOOM, by Gabriel Fielding, Wm. Morrow

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A strong novel written with deep insight and wisdom of two young men bound by understanding and love; a rare and unusual presentation.

ROOM IN CHELSEA SQUARE, Anonymous

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An amusing, biting, irreverent novel.

GAME OF FOOLS, by James Barr Fugate, One, Inc

A intense drama by the author of Quatrefoil and Derricks.

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THE 3 TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE, H. Montgomery Hyde, ed.

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The most complete account of the three trials Wilde went through. A thorough picture of Wilde's deterioration.

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