Ostensibly a novelized documentary of New York low life, The Messenger instead turns out to be an appeal to the prurience and prejudice of readers who will put it down more firm than ever in their misbegotten conviction that, "Yeah, that's the

way them niggers and fairies live." Bad, and too bad. Mr. Wright has talent. He might have written a fine book.

He has written only a fashionable

one.

James Colton

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WHAT IS REMEMBERED by Alice Toklas (Holt)

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Reminiscences of the author's much talked about friendship with Gertrude Stein. Many Photos.

GIVE ME MYSELF by Susan Sherman (World)

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A maturing woman looks back to her tomboy childhood. . . without a single overt act, she begins a harrowing period of morbid introspection, touching tangentially on the homosexual theme.

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN by David George Kin (Brookwood)

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ONE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY of Homophile Studies Numbers 6 and 7, containing articles on Lesbians: "On Gertrude Stein", "Research on Lesbians" (DOB with USC Psychologist Virginia Armon).

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