chological factors causing the equator (Circle) to manifest as it does in ourselves and in others. Two additional sub-equators might have been melded into the circle with designations on them how and where the sado-masochistic and the fetishistic drives are predominantly expressed by the various Types and which are in themselves sex needs. As it is, Mr. Arthur has accomplished the presentation of a clear, one-pointed aspect of sexuality, namely the classification of men and women according to their choice of sex partners.

These manifestations are separated into twelve Types, six for males, six for females, beginning with the mostmost hetero male and/or female and merging by degrees of hetero-homo mixtures, through adjacent sectors, to the most-most homo male or female. Thus, the most-most female hetero Type-Lady C-who prefers males is next to the male with the most female component in his makeup Finocchio who also prefers

males. The most-most hetero male Type, Don Juan, who prefers females, is next to the female Type-the Dyke--who also prefers only females. Thus there is no break in the merging from Type to Type on the circle as there is in Kinsey's straight line presentation with the homogenic at one dead end and the heterogenic at the other dead end. Any reader might think of what to him are more appropriate names for the different Types because of his real position on the Circle, his background of conditioning, education and distilling of life's experiences, but "a rose is a rose is a rose . . .

With the restrictions on "polite" conversation being broadened as they are today, The Circle of Sex could easily become a most engaging conversation piece, but there is no end to the conjectures which could be aroused should a group of people

start to identify each other in terms of the twelve Types. a sure method for "losing friends and influence over people." So think well before you try to "Type-cast" anyone but yourself. W. F. Baker

THE STRANGE DEATH OF LORD CASTLEREAGH by H. Montgomery Hyde, Heinemann, 1959.

With a torrent of blood gushing from a self-inflicted gash in his jugular, England's England's political leader slumped into the arms of his doctor, who had reached the room too late. In a minute, he was dead. The fear that he was about to be arrested for a homosexual offense had made life unbearable for him.

A ridiculous, melodramatic fantasy? No, pure history. The dead man, perhaps history's most famous suicide-victim of homosexual blackmail, was Robert Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry, better known to history by his earlier title-Viscount Castlereagh. At the time Castlereagh cut his throat, August 12, 1822, he had been British Foreign Minister for 10 years. He was also leader of the House of Commons (his title being an Irish one) and Tory party leader. The Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, being merely an ineffective figurehead, Castlereagh was considered generally as the real head of the government. Within the week of his death he was scheduled to leave for the Congress of Verona where the fate of Spain, Greece, and Latin America was to be decided.

Although the homosexual blackmail angle has generally been "hushed up" in historical accounts of Castlereagh's suicide, it was no mere scandalous rumor. The original source was Castlereagh himself who reported having received a blackmail letter to many persons close to him including