Books and Bookmen, Volume 20, Number 11, August 1974

Includes “The Aryan Kid and the Guru” by Duncan Hallowell, a review of Burroughs’ Exterminator!, at page 86.

Published in London, England by Hansom Books in August 1974.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 19740800BABO.20.11

Selected Contents:

• index
• letters
• Alan Forrest: "bookmarks" (essays)
• Enoch Powell: "Impeachment in Britain" (review of Impeachment and Parliamentary Judicature in Early Stuart England by Colin C. G. Tite)
• Aubergon Waugh: "Bookman's shelf" (combined review)
• John Smyth: "An ill-starred campaign" (review of Last on the List by Miles Reid)
• Anthony West: "Anglo-French tensions" (review of Palmerston, Guizot and the Collapse of the Entente Cordiale by Roger Bullen)
• Lord Boothby: "Political titans" (review of Lloyd George by Kenneth O. Morgan and Winston Churchill by Henry Pelling)
• Montgomery Hyde: "Nazi memoirs" (review of The Nazi Secret Service by Andre Brissaud and The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselring by Albert Kesselring)
• Hans Keller: "Scoenberg: problems of translation. 2" (review of Arnold Schoenberg Letters, edited by Erwin Stein)
• C. B. Cox: "The two Conrads" (reviews)
• Elizabeth Longford: "Identikit for Byron" (combined review)
• Konstantin Bazarov: "Russian Sphinx" (review of Alexander I, Tsar of War and Peace by Alan Palmer)
• A. L. Rowse: "Edifice completed" (combined review)
• Mollie Hardwick: "Novel in the making" (review of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens)
• Lord Kinross: "Personal anecdotes & memories" (review of Queen Mary and Others and Collected Stories by Osbert Sitwell)
• Edgar Lustgarten: "Much law, little justice" (review of The Trials of Oscar Wilde by H. Montgomery Hyde)
• John Lenihan: "Banks and braes" (review of A Natural History of Loch Lemond and Cairngorms Recreation Map)
• Gavin Lambert: "A Southern epic" (review of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
• C. Northcote Parkinson: "Voyage of the Centurion" (review of A Voyage Round the World by George Anson)
• Cecil King: "Farmhouse to White House" (review of Plain Speaking – Conversations with Harry S. Truman by Merle Miller)
• Douglas Cooper: "Pictures in context" (review of Watteau: A Lady at Her Toilet by Donald Posner and Courbet: The Studio of a Painter by Benedict Nicolson)
• Bernard Jones: "Blunden: the British tradition 2" (essay)
• F. W. Skinnard: "Surgeon to the Eagles" (review of Waterloo: a Guide to the Battlefield by David Howarth and Larrey: Surgeon to Napoleon's Imperial Guard by Robert G. Richardson)
• A. L. Rowse: "Elizabethiana" (combined review)
• Cecil Roberts: "Queen of the Midlands" (review of Portrait of Nottingham by Emrys Bryson)
• H. Coombes: "Correspondence and criticism" (review of Letters in Criticism by F. R. Leavis)
• Marie Peel: "Beale Street Blues" (review of If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin)
• Enoch Powell: "Top drawer at war" (review of Leadership in War 1939-1945. The Generals in Victory and Defeat by Brigadier Sir John Smyth)
• Diana Mosley: "Exploration via religion" (review of Beloved Partner: Mary Moffat of Kuruman by Mora Dickson and Livingstone and His African Journeys by Elspeth Huxley)
• Kay Dick: "Twixt Balzac and Barrie" (review of Arnold Bennett, a Biography by Margaret Drabble)
• Ates Orga: "Beethoven: a scholarly view" (review of Beethoven Studies edited by Alan Tyson)
• Colin Wilson: "Ronald Duncan: a self-revealing poet" (essay)
• Frank Granville Barker: "Recording opera" (review of The Grand Tradition: Seventy Years of Singing on Board by J. B. Steane)
• Iain Moncreiffe: "Flying Moderator" (review of Record Apart by Andrew Herron)
• Peter Faulkner: "Problems of Southern Africa" (combined review)
• John Lloyd: "In place of circuses" (review of The Young in the Revolution edited by Vladimir Sevruk)
• E. R. Braithwaite: "Origins of prejudice" (review of The White Man's Burden – Historical Origins of Racism in the United States by Winthrop D. Jordan)
• Gonville Ffrench-Beytagh: "Forced into violence" (review of Bandiet by Hugh Lewin)
• Ian Jacob: "War strategy" (combined review)
• Tom Hopkinson: "Photographic stunt" (review of London Goes to War – 1939 by Gordon Bromley)
• E. L. Mascall: "Religious truth" (review of Truth and Dialogue by John Hick)
• C. Northcote Parkinson: "Brave new world" (review of Undreamed Shores: England's Wasted Empire in America by Michael Foss)
• Jonathan Meades: "Monuments to arrogance" (review of Towards a Humane Architecture by Bruce Allsopp)
• Dewi Morgan: "Foundations of Jerusalem" (review of Digging up Jerusalem by Kathleen Kenyon)
• Alan Hull Walton: "Wheatley harvest" (combined review)
• Piers Brendon: "College rag" (review of Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe)
• Richard Whittington-Egan: "Needle-pointed penman" (review of The Dogs Bark by Truman Capote)
• Duncan Fallowell: "The Aryan Kid and the Guru" (review of Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs)
• Robert Nye: "Pun of creation" (review of The Wonder-Worker by Dan Jacobson)
• Graham Fawcett: "The grain in the tempest" (review of The Clockwork Testament by Anthony Burgess)
• Frank Lipsius: "Critic of the average" (review of From the Diary of a Snail by Günter Grass and Günter Grass by Irene Leonard)
• Robert Eagle: "Fly-by-night" (review of Wilderness Man: The Extraordinary Story of Grey Owl by Lovat Dickson)
• James Brockway: "A measure of life" (review of Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro and Return of the Pagan by Bruce Allsopp)
• Konstantin Bazarov: "Candid correspondent" (review of Letters of Anton Chekhov edited by Simon Karlinsky)
• A. L. Rowse: "Wise after the event" (review of This Solemn Mockery by John Whitehead)
• Charity Blackstock: "Unliberated women" (review of Victorian Wives by Katharine Moore and Women in Stuart England and America by Roger Thompson)
• Robert Chapman: "Runes of despair" (review of Beckett by A. Alvarez)
• Robert Nye: "If shadows blushed..." (review of Keats and Embarrassment by Christopher RIcks)
• Bernard Davies: "Life in the Valley of the Kings" (review of Lives of the Pharaohs by Pierre Montet)
• Christopher Lee: "Voyages of discovery" (review of The Opening of the World by David Devine)
• assorted fiction book reviews
• assorted miscellaneous book reviews
• Trevor Allen: "books in brief" (short reviews)
• bookguide to new titles

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Cis Amaral
• Assistant Editor: Gareth Marshallsea