FULL OF FAST ADVENTURE AND FAIRLY GOOD SLICK-TYPE WRITING.

195. AMERICANA ESOTERICA BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. MACY-NACIUS, NEW YORK, 1927.

EXCELLENT OFFBEAT COLLECTION OF SHORT PIECES INCLUDING TWO OVERT WALE HOMOSEXUAL POEMS AS WELL AS THE VERY RARE LESBIAN NARRATIVE POEM, "STRANGE WATERS," BY GEORGE STERLING. ALSO INCLUDES AN EARLY LESBIAN SHORT STORY BY DJUNA BARNES ENTITLED "DUSIE". A MUST BOOK FOR THE SERIOUS COLLECTOR.

196. THE CARETAKERS BY DARIEL TELFER. SIMON & SCHUSTER, 1959; SIGNET, 1960.

MINOR LESBIAN AFFAIR IN A HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. HANDLED WITH TACT AND SYMPATHY.

197. THE LESBIAN BY BENJAMIN MORSE. MONARCH BOOKS, 1961.

A POPULARIZED NON-FICTION PAPERBACK WHICH READS MORE LIKE A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES OR VIGNETTES THAN CASE HISTORIES. IT IS RELATIVELY GOOD OF KIND, NEITHER PARTICULARLY SY.PATHETIC NOR UNNECESSARILY VITUPERATIVE.

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198. DREARY BY AMBLY BALD IN "AMERICANS ABROAD" EDITED BY PETER NEAGOE. SERVIRE PRESS, THE HAGUE (HOLLAND), 1932. TIRELY IN ENGLISH.)

EXCELLENT SHORT STORY ABOUT A GROUP OF MALE AND FEMALE HOMOSEXUALS IN THE BARS AND CAFES OF PARIS. STORY REVOLVES AROUND A LESBIAN LOVE AFFAIR.

19. DEVOTED LADIES BY . J. FARRELL (MARY LESTA SKRINE). LIT}TLE, BROWN, 1934.

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TWO DIFFERENT VARIANT AFFAIRS MAKE UP THE BULK OF PLOT IN THIS LIGHT, BUT UBTLY WICKED, ENGLISH NOVEL. THE HOLD JESSICA HAS OVER JANE IS FIERCE, WHILE THE LOVE "PIGGY" BEARS FOR JOAN IS BOTH SYMPATHETIC AND WELL DRAWN, ALBEIT HOPELESS. THE DENOUEMENT IN WHICH THE REJECTED, RUINED "PIGGY", IN A LAST BLIND MOMENT OF DOING GOOD FOR OTHERS, SUCCESSFULLY RELEASES JANE FROM JESSICA'S POWER IS A GEM.