comes in contact, bringing out their innate evil. Among those destroyed by Alraune are a pair of lesbian lovers. High-quality fantasy, unfortunately rare and rather expensive.

FADIMAN, EDWIN JR. The 21 Inch Screen. Doubleday 1958, pbr Signet 1960. TV bigshot Rex Lundy has woman trouble—his wife, his mistress, and his teen-age daughter. The latter is seeking the love she doesn’t get at home from a Greenwich Village lesbian friend. Excellent modern fiction.

The Glass Play Pen. pbo Signet 1956. Rich girl loses her parents, loses her money, and turns expensive call girl. One lesbian episode, treated with tenderness and sympathy.

see also EDWINA MARK.

FAIR, ELIZABETH. Bramton Wick. Funk & Wagnalls 1954. fco. Cozy little story of cozy little English village, including two maiden ladies who have lived together for many years. “It is all very light and airy and your old-maid aunt wouldn’t think it at all odd.” Apt to be in libraries.

FAREWELL, NINA. Someone to Love. Messner 1959, pbr Popular Library, 1960. One brief, incomplete lesbian episode in a long, interesting novel of a woman’s continual search for real love in a life filled with fleeting liaisons.

+ FERGUSON, MARGARET. The Sign of the Ram. London, Philadelphia, The Blakiston Co, 1944-45. Sherida comes as companion-secretary to crippled Leah, passionately adored by her whole family including sixteen-year-old Christine. Subtly playing on Christine’s emotions, Leah spurs her to the point where she attempts to murder Sherida. On the surface, the motivation is simply the love of power, but Christine’s emotions are clearly variant; when the book was filmed, they carefully cast Christine as a girl of eleven, to make it unmistakable that her adoration was only “childish.”

FIRBANK, RONALD. The Flower Beneath the Foot. in Five Novels, New Directions, 1949. “Light and fluffy ... pure fun”.

Inclinations. in Three Novels. New Directions 1951, (m).

FITZROY, A.T. Despised and Rejected. London, C W Daniel, 1918. Lesbian incidents in a novel which is, however, mainly about persecution of Conscientious Objectors in World War I.

FISHER, MARY (PARRISH). Not Now but NOW. Viking 1947. Novel of an ageless, ruthless woman. A long episode on a college campus is lesbian in emphasis.

FISHER, VARDIS. The Darkness and the Deep. Vanguard, 1943, fco, a novel of the Stone Age.

FLAGG, JOHN. Dear, Deadly Beloved. Gold Medal pbo 1954.

Murder in Monaco. pbo Gold Medal 1957.

Both of these are fast-moving mysteries, in Mediterranean setting, both involving lesbian characters.

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE. Salammbo. Classic French Novel in many editions and translations. A very long novel of a Babylonian High Priestess; some psychological and literary authorities consider it variant. The editors all say with one voice that it isn’t. BAYOR.

FLEMING, IAN. Goldfinger. Macmillan 1959. No data, BAYOR.

FLORA, FLETCHER. Desperate Asylum. pbo Lion Library 1955, pbr Pyramid 1959, tct Whisper of Love. An unhappy lesbian and a neurotic man who hates women because his mother was promiscuous, marry to find a mutual “asylum”. Predictably the marriage is unsuccessful, ending in murder and suicide.