of the subject to accept his own homophile tendency.

When we turn to Lesbian love we have an even longer list of distinguished names, beginning with Radclyffe Hall, whose WELL OF LONELINESS is so datod that it may seem funny to young women reading it for the first time; let us not forget that it opened the way to other books on the same subject, which had been taboo. We have, again, Simone de Beauvoir; again, Truman Capote in THE HEADLESS HAWK and other works; from Germany we have Anna Elisabet Weirach and Luise Rinser, whose RINGS OF GLASS is a rather turgid study in the development of homosexuality in a gifted child between the ages of six and fourteen. We have OLIVIA and DIANA, the Ann Bannon series, and the AldrichVin Packer girls, which provide an interesting two-way view of one author. The Aldrich books are supposed to bo fiction, but the case histories are so presented that it's hard to find a dividing line. We have the works of Barry Devlin and others whose interest in the subject far outstrips their ability.

And then we have a few magnificent books like THE PRICE OF SALT by Claire Morgan, and the quiet, subtle books of Gale Wilhelm; these are two of the fow writers who accept tho erotic tendencies of their characters as completely normal. They are also two of the most professional in style, and their books are worth reading by anyone on the basis of literary merit.

There seem to be more books about female homophiles than about male s or perhaps it seems that way because that's where my own principal interest lies and I've made a greater effort to buy and read them. Perhaps, too, more women than men are writing these days. Or perhaps it reflects the popular attitude that homosexuality among men ,is terribly wicked and probably criminal, whereas it's more natural and less reprehensible for women to develop emotional attachments which mature into physical love. This hasn't always been true in other societies in ancient Greece, for example but it is certainly true in the United States today. In many communities the female homophile is merely disappro ved of while her male counterpart may be arrested for his activities.

Many of the books about women in love deal with the inner