styles of architecture, a change of heart?"

In the meantime, we can be grateful for this little book.

Paul Cordell

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN by Morris L. West, William Morrow and Co., New York, $4.95, 374 pp.

This remarkably fine novel, by a writer skilled in the delineation of character, puts human beings in real relations to each other even the leading figure, a Pope of the Church of Rome, in West's rich and provocative story the first Pontiff elected from Russia.

What will interest readers of One is the contrast between the Italian official who says, "I am drawn to men. Why should I be ashamed?" and the Pontiff himself who can say, "You should not be ashamed," and offer a reason why. The book has much more to it than this homosexual theme-so much, that it gives this theme a certain dignity.

L. F.

LOVE IS LIFE, a Catholic Marriage Handbook by Francois Dantec, (translated from French), University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, 212 pp. $5.00

To some it may seem out of place to be reviewing a heterosexual marriage manual in a magazine professing to be the "Homosexual Viewpoint." I disagree. This has been for me one of the most enlightening, if frightening, books I have read in a long time. Those of us who are homosexuals often tend to forget just what our opposition is. A consideration of what this Catholic book says and implies is frightening to me as an American. And I would like to think that the more devout a Catholic is, provided that he is also intelligent, the more worried he will be about the harm this book will do to the ecu-

menical movement of the late Pope. It is in the light of some proposed changes within the church-Mass in English, marriage for lower priests, no more forced signing away of the non-Catholic partner's rights to educate the child, etc.-that this book is to be judged. And in such light we can only wonder why the book was translated and printed in this country. There is no doubt in my mind that within 5 years this book will be as outdated as the dinosaur. If it is not, then the homosexual will, along with those holding Catholic opposed beliefs, either be eliminated or be under great tribulation.

The book itself immediately lets you know that it is more of a plea for more babies than a marriage manual. It says at the very first, "The first purpose: To Have Children and to Educate Them." It is the church's desire for control of child birth, down to and including how it should be brought about, that worries most non-Catholics.

We are told, in flowery, old-world language that; "Catholic moral teaching forbids solitary pollution." Then the author proceeds to say how we can get around this teaching thus producing, disrespect for the church's teaching. I stand in amazement at the idea that, if it's necessary to check a man's sperm, the doctor stands around while the man has sex relations with his wife, then rushes in and takes a sample from the womans's body.

When after about 75 of the 200 pages the subject of babies is left, the language stays flowery and consists of cliches which, in these days of clinical examinations found in Kinsey and printed in "true confessions" and the ladies' journals, make the book almost unbelievably childish-childish, not child-like. I do not believe that this book has any worth in 1963 to young adults contempplating or entering marriage, I find