ceptable, but that his flimsy case against David-based upon the boy's receiving a suggestive note containing a snapshot of a sleeping girl (!) minus the top of her bikini-would be accepted by the head master is unconvincing, particularly since David is top scholar of the school.

One wonders if Mr. DouglasHome's novel is based upon a bitter experience of his own, and further wonders if the sexes have been changed to protect the author. These may be unjust suspicions, but there is something decidedly amiss when a story so skillfully written and vividly charactered leaves one at the end filled with total disbelief. If it was possible for Mr. Douglas-Home to

have written a novel as good as this one about a homosexual whose bent is discovered and whose future is mutilated as a result, it seems more than a pity that he did not do so.

However, if his mind and spirit are as conventional and timid as those of his protagonist-David, even for a teenage boy, strikes one as abnormally defenseless-then the failure of his novel is not difficult to understand. In all fairness, Hot for Certainties may be precisely the book its author intended. The reveiwer may be in error. Nobody in the story understands poor David Melrose. Perhaps I must simply join their number. James Colton

POPULAR BOOKS AVAILABLE TO ONE'S MEMBERS

The BOOKSERVICE lists below only a few of the books offered for sale. The books are in stock and will be mailed immediately.

JONATHAN TO GIDE by Noel I. Garde is now in stock again. This is must reading for anyone wanting to know a little about famous people in history who were homosexual. Supplements the article in Quarterly 18 by Magnus Hirschfeld. The review of this book appeared in the September, ONE Magazine last year. The only book of its kind, you will find yourself referring to it often. ..$10.00

LOST ON TWILIGHT ROAD by JamesColton. Anyone who has read James Colton's short stories in ONE Magazine will want to read this short novel which is in stock again. Although in paper-back and hidden by a bad cover, this an excellent story about a young teen-ager who awakens to his homosexuality, has experiences, good and bad, and in time meets an older man and finds happiness. . $1.00

BIOGRAPHY, JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS by Phillis Grosskurth. The book will be published soon in America under the ttitle The Woeful Victorian but we had our British agents get the book for our Members early. This book is important because it is based upon Symonds, suppressed autobiography and frankly discusses his homosexuality and the homosexuality of other important persons, some of whom were only suspected till now.. ..$12.50

THE WHISTLING ZONE by Herbert Kubly. Herbert Kubly's first novel takes place at a midwestern college. While not primarily homosexual, the sex in this book is not mild, since it includes a "panty raid" and a mass rape. But the important happenings in this fine book are the Berkeley campus of the University of California recently came as no surprise to those who have read this biting commentary on today's dehumanized corporate universities and their corrosive effect on teachers, students and the tradition of intellectual and spiritual freedom. $4.95

THE JEWEL IN THE LOTUS by Allen Edwardes, a historical survey of the sexuual culture of the east is still probably the best book of its type. Only a few copies.

A SINGLE MAN by Christopher Isherwood

...$6.50 ...$4.00

Order those books while they are available. Send your name and address and check to: ONE Bookservice, 2256 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles 6, California. (California residents add 4% sales tax.)

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