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REVIEW EDITOR: Isn't it sad the House of Commons would not agree to accept the recommendations (on Nov. 30th) of the Wolfenden Report: such a lot of labour had been put into it. Still, it was a beginning. The thin edge of a wedge, so to speak. I had firmly believed that the law would be changed; everybody of importance seemed to uphold it. -Miss I.M., England.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Home Secretary Richard A. Butler told the House of Commons during the 1-day debate on Wolfenden recom. mendations recently that public opinion was not yet ready for this change (on homosexual offenses) which has been backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, and other church leaders, medical associations, etc. This happened even though it was pointed out that present laws breed much of the blackmail to which homosexuals in England (and elsewhere) are subject. England's maximum life imprisonment penalty, therefore, still applies to some homosexual offenses. Outside of Parliament, several British leaders who supported the Wolfenden recommendations have stated that lawmakers may be loath to act favorably on this matter for a decade. Politicians, they say, are that far behind public opinion, and don't dare "catch up" for fear of losing votes when up for re-election.

REVIEW EDITOR: I think the REVIEW is extremely well-edited, well-written, informative and enlightening. I am planning a Master's thesis on male homosexuality. It is perhaps the field most needing a "fresh" approach... Dr. Hooker's articles, in this regard, are most interesting. She is about the only one who has been extremely encouraging and enthusiastic and who has done work at least tangentially related to what I will be doing. -Mrs. B.D., Colorado.

REVIEW EDITOR: Thanks for the August copy and the friendly letter. I have a lot of written material related to our subject, works compiled over many years. Unfortunately all is in Serbo-Croatian language-original articles and items collected from different viewpoints and from different continents. Some of this material would probably aid the cause of justice in today's world. Have you a translator available? I am not a capable person for such. -Mr. K.S.B., Ontario.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Review would like to hear from potential translators who can put the above articles in English, providing an examination of this material indicates it has value for the Review's readers.

REVIEW EDITOR: I am rather surprised to learn that total Mattachine membership is only about 250 persons. With an estimated 10 to 15 million people predominantly of homosexual interest in this country alone, there is a terrific potential. Considering that a good many of these would, for one reason or another, not wish to belong, there must be thousands who-if they knew about Mattachine and the Review-would be very much interested. I only discovered Mattachine myself about two years ago in some very small print in Physique Pictorial, thanks to my interest in bodybuilding. Isn't there some way of advertising in nationally circulated magazines? Telling your friends is fine if you have some o are interested. To the best of my know dge I have no homophile friends: to spre the word to. -Mr. C.K., Illinois.

EDITOR'S NOTE: We wish there was an easy answer to the problem posed. Mattachine Review has been advertised in a few general publications of limited circulation on rare occasions during the past four years but with often disappointing results. Moreover, many, many attempts to advertise in

larger magazines, newspaper book sections, rtc., have resulted in outright rejection of our copy. Therefore, acceptance of our copy is a first hurdle; getting the money to pay for it is a second. Constructive suggestions from readers on this are solicited.

REVIEW EDITOR: Did you read the story from Oregon about the life imprisonment verdict on a morals charge involving a 16-yearold and a fellow of 23? The latter got the book because of two previous convictions. Not that we condone contributing to delinquincy of minors, but the minors many times importune and perpetrate the acts. I think the penalty here shows a predisposition of some courts to all but execute those who deviate from the "norm" in a sexual sense. They are less vigorous in their penalties for arsonists who threaten young and old alike, or those convicted of statutory rape (where the girl may be also 16 or even younger.) -Mr. R.B., Oregon.

REVIEW EDITOR: Mr. J.D., Ohio (see letters, December issue) sounds like someone interested in a possible Mattachine Area Council. In the Cleveland area, I have three willing persons who need to be joined by two more to form a new Mattachine unit. Will they respond favorably? -Mr.. H.S., Ohio. (Cleveland Suburb)

REVIEW EDITOR: I particularly liked "Dragons, Anyone" in the December issue. Whoever H.L.S. is, he writes very well, in

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a deceptively casual style. I also liked the book review, Teleny, partly because Noel Garde followed my theory that book reviews should be used to get across information and entertainment rather than just critical exercise. -Mr. R.H., New York.

REVIEW EDITOR: Thank you for the article on Cavafy "The Last Alexandrian" by Philip Jason in your November issue. It is well and informatively written and tells excellently of Cavafy's imagery. But for all the merits of the article it might have appeared in any other monthly as well. Apart from two quotes the article leaves out all the beauty, the fire and hell, the furtiveness

of our love, so eloquently found in Cavafy's poetry. If the aim of an article on a great homophile poet is to incite the reader to read the poems in question I personally think the article has missed this aim. It doesn't matter to me as I have read Cavafy's Collected Poems in the English edition mentioned in the article but I would all the same like to point out to your readers that these poems deserve to be read by all who have a feeling for great poetry not for the sake of their "Weltanscbung" but for the fact that here are the most beautiful and most outspoken homophile poems written in centuries. -Mr. R.B., Switzerland.

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Homophilic BIBLIOGRAPHY

Part XIII

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*Hays, Will H., Jr. DRAGON AгCH. (n; II). Garden City: Doubleday, 1954.

Heatcott, Mary. NEIL'S GIRL. (ss in "Story No. 4"; IV). New York: Wyn, 1953.

Head, Matthew (pseudonym for E. Canaday). THE SMELL OF MONEY. (n; II). New York: Simon Schuster, 1943. Reprint: Dell 219. Hegedus, Adam de. (see also Garland, Rodney). REHEARSAL UNDER THE MOON. (n;I). London: Nicholson, 1946.

Heimer, Mel. THE GIRL IN MURDER FLAT. (n;III). New York: Fawcett, 1955.

Heinrich, Willi. THE CROSS OF IRON. (n: II). Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1956. Reprint: Bantam 1599.

*Hemingway, Ernest. SEA CHANGE. (ss in "The Fifth Column and the First 49 Stories"; IV). New York: Scribner's, 1938. Reprint: Modern Library G-59.

Hemingway, Ernest. HOMAGE TO SWITZERLAND. (ss, in "The Fifth Column and the First 49 Stories"; I). New York, Scribner's, 1938. Reprint: Modern Library G-59.

Hemingway, Ernest. MOTHER OF A QUEEN. (ss, in "The Fifth Column and the First 49 Stories"; IV). New. York: Scribner's, 1938. Reprint: Modern Library G-59.

Hemingway, Ernest. SIMPLE INQUIRY. (ss, in "The Fifth Column and The First 49 Stories"; IV). New York: Scribner's, 1938. Reprint: Modern Library G-59.