book interesting reading. It is reasonably well-written, jauntily and lightheartedly written. Personally, I was deeply appreciative of Mr. Masters' treatment of the homosexual individual and his place in modern society. I think, too, that his discussion of the aims and objectives of both the individual and the homophile groups is well worth reading. In this area, in which he is admittedly giving a subjective opinion, I think he is both fair and realistic.

If the reader adheres to the belief that any publicity is better than no publicity at all, THE HOMOSEXUAL REVOLUTION may do the homophile and the homophile movement some good. Unfortunately, I fear, the book will not attract a really large number of readers, and among these the book's serious faults will tend to disqualify it in the minds of serious and potentially helpful readers.

Marcel Martin

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RADCLYFFE HALL by Una, Lady Troubridge. London, Hammond Hammond, 25 shillings.

Unhappily, this graceful and pleasant book, the first about the author of The Well of Loneliness, is a disappointment. Written by the friend who was "John" Hall's intimate companion for 28 years, until death parted them, it is in fact no more than a gentle personal memoir-not truly a biography at all.

It recalls to life beloved animalsdogs, horses, birds. It sketches with charm and humor the many and varied houses in and out of England shared by "John" and Lady Troubridge. Its accounts of stays in Rome and Florence are vivid and evocative. Delicious meals are lovingly remembered. There are engaging retellings of small personal jokes and minor domestic mishaps. Lady Troubridge's recounting of her friend's courageous

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meeting of death by cancer is moving.

But we are given little of the great writer. This is distinctly not a literary biography. Nor do we see much, really, of the human society in which this distinguished, brave and cheerful woman moved and had her being. Of the storm of controversy roused by her valiant book and resulting in its long suppression in England we are told almost nothing.

And despite Lady Troubridge's promise at the outset of this memoir to tell "the whole truth," there is not the slightest reference to the sexual side of this obviously profound and enduring lesbian relationship. The pity is that Lady Troubridge, quite evidently a warmhearted and wise human being, might have given reassurance and guidance to others in this way, and failed to do so.

-James Colton

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