This work is rare in making Whitman live and breathe for the reader. Here, nicely interwoven with a great enthusiasm for the great poetry, are the many little foibles, such as the preference for living in squalor, the egotistical braggings and lies, and the laziness. And Asselineau is the best yet on Whitman's mysticism, passivity, and deep religious beliefs which make him much closer to Buddhism than Christianity.

-A. E. Smith

TOLL FOR THE BRAVE by John Montgomery, Max Parrish, London, 1963.

This unsatisfactory biography of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, who in 1903 killed himself rather than face court martial for homosexuality, spends nine-tenths of its space minutely describing battles, and some not even involving him. His personality and personal life are hardly touched upon. The author admits he had little to go on. Macdonald was an enormously popular general, both with the public and military personnel, and the press, in marked contrast to their treatment of Wilde, almost totally "hushed up" the tragedy, and the English War Department refuses to give out any information whatever.

However, along with a cryptic description of that contemporary General, Kitchener (whose homosexuality was much "more well-known," who "lived openly" with his military secretary, and who permitted only bachelor officers on his staff), this book allows at least a peek into a major aspect of homsexuality in the military man. Much of today's anti-homosexuality opinion stresses the "unmanly," and this book may help destroy that myth.

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-A. E. S.

FIVE WOMEN WHO LOVED LOVE by Ihara Saikaku, Chas. Tuttle

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Skillful and erotic short stories from Japan's most romantic age Five Women who loved love but got little of it, for the men they loved loved men, not women. Witty and ironic, they might have come from recent copies of the New Yorker instead of 17th century Japan.

CITY OF NIGHT by John Rechy

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For the first time in a long time, a book about male prostitution which goes beyond the clinical and becomes entertaining. It is a gay tour of the United States. The descriptions of and incidents in New Orleans, and Los Angeles (Pershing Square), are hilarious and earthy.

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