The Newsletter is also in great need of contributions such as book reviews, reactions to discussion groups, witty sayings and anecdotes, reactions to speaker, etc. It is our hope to make this four-sheeter into more than a carrier of announcements for the coming month the Newsletter should also represent our thoughts and aspirations.

ALMS: Checks, money orders, silver, postal money orders, foreign notes, stocks, bonds and even plain old ten-dollar bills (also one-dollar bills, by the way), are in unusually great demand at Mattachine these days. Contributions will be used to help lighten the increased expenses in our new offices and to give you a better newsletter also. Dividends on your investment will come in terms of increasing. possibilities for the participation of larger groups in Mattachine activities through expanded facilities and, we believe, the eventual betterment of all of mankind through self-knowledge, understanding, and tolerance for others.

The work of the Mattachine in New York is in its infancy there are hundreds right here in New York who need our help who need YOUR help. "No man is an island, sufficient unto himself..." For persons of all races, colors, and creeds, and for all we stand for, we appeal to you.

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COMING NEXT MONTH.... reports on contacts being made among professionals: Details on psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers, ministers and priests, etc. other research projects... discussion of means to get publicity through other publications... such as technical Journals, literary magazines, etc. This is to be the real McCoy, not just id:u talk some spade work has already been done.

There is a strong feeling within the Mattachine group in New York that the American ideals and principles of free speech upheld within the organization should be re-emphasized by deed as well as word. Members have suggested that we appeal more often in the Newsletter for suggestions from those who may not have expressed themselves in reference to their own needs. What can the organization do for YOU? Please let us know if you would like to see some particular topic placed under discussion, or to have meetings on some specific date for greater convenience to Address you. such requests to the Newsletter we will forward them to the proper parties.

Persons concerned with matters of freedom of the press or interested in legal aspects of the sex deviant questions should familiarize themselves with the court case of ONE magazine. Implications of the last court decision may prove Important to those interested in the welfare of the homosexual of either sex.

PUBLICATIONS CHAPTER

The October issue of the MATTACHINE REVIEW will be the result of the labors of the New York Publications Chapter. Unusual material will include an early XIX Century Peruvian poem.

Articles have been translated from foreign homophile magazines or were written especially for this issue by persons abroad or residents of the United States today with extensive knowledge of fo:. eign laws, customs. We may be prejudiced, since this is our own "flesh and blood, "but no matter how objective we try to be, we keep thinking that this is the best issue of the Mattachine Review yet... be sure to get your copy or better still, subscribe: 12 fat and fascinating issues for only Subscribers in the New York area who may prefer it, may have their subscriptions mailed to our offices, where they can be picked up later.

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BOOK NOTES

The Winston Book Service, 250 Fulton Avenue, Hempstead, Long Island, announces as its dual selection Yourcenar's "Coup de Grace" and Sir Compton MacKenzie's "Thin Ice." The latter was recently review in the Mattachine Review; the former will be reviewed soon. They are both excellent and valuable addition to your bookshleves.

The Village Theater Center, 116 Christopher Street, continues to offer a large variety of very unusual items...

we still have not recovered from "Lord Byron's Marriage." A review of this significant and scholarly work will soon appear in the Mattachine Review.

And in the meantime our library continues to grow. Recent additions:

The Homosexual Neurosis The End of My Life

Wilhelm Stekel Vance Bourjaily

Jean-Marie Carre Joseph Collins

Jean Lombard

George Davis

Gerald Tesch

A Season in Hell: The Life of Rimbaud A Doctor Looks at Love and Life L'agonie (in French) The Opening of a Door Never the Same Again. (in French) Andre du Dognon Les amours buissonieres (in French) Frank Harris Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions Havelock Ellis Studies in the Psychology of Sex A Problem in Greek Ethics John Addington Symonds Hermaphrodites: The Human Intersex Le monde inverse (in French) Sex Symbolism and Psychology in Literature Stalky and Company Rudyard Kipling Hemlock and After

A. P. Cawadias Andre du Dognon

Otto Kiefer

Angus Wilson Sexual Life in Ancient Rome Sexual Freedom Rene Guyon New York Confidential

Lait & Mortimer

The Sexual Criminal J. Paul de Rener

George Ryley Scott

The Sexual Perversionist Abnormalities Sex and its Mysteries Monsieur Venus

Rachilde

Roy P. Basler

Clifford Allen