BAUM, VICKI. _Theme for Ballet._ N. Y., Doubleday 1958, pbr Dell 1959, (m). Minor but excellent. _The Mustard Seed._ Dial 1953, pbr Pyramid 1956 (m minor). BEER, THOMAS. _Mrs Egg and Other Barbarians._ Knopf, 1933. Rarer than hen’s teeth—lesbian humor. BELLAMANN, HENRY. _King’s Row._ N. Y., Simon & Schuster, 1940, (m). BELOT, ADOLPHE. _Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife._ Paris, Dentu 1870, Chicago, Laird & Lee 1891. The wife remains a “miss”, refusing her husband’s approaches because of her attachment to another woman. Typically the husband drowns this monstrous creature (other woman) during an ostensible seaside rescue. BENNETT, ARNOLD. _Elsie and the Child._ N. Y., Doran, 1924. “Common sense” treatment of an attachment between Elsie the housemaid, and a girl of twelve, which subsides when the little girl is sent to school. _The Pretty Lady._ N. Y., Doran 1918. A subtle picture of indirect variance between two women in wartorn Paris. BERKMAN, SYLVIA. _Blackberry Wilderness._ N. Y., Doubleday, 1959. Esoteric, melancholy, beautifully written short stories, of which two are overtly lesbian in content. BERTIN, SYLVIA. _The Last Innocence._ (Trans. by Marjorie Dean). N Y McGraw Hill, 1955. Story of Paula, a member of a French provincial family. “The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated as a matter of course ... that she wears trousers, hates men, etc. is presented with no more excuse or explanation than the individual foibles of the rest of the family.” BESTER, ALFRED. _Who He?_ N. Y., Doubleday 1955, pbr Berkley 1956, (m) tct. _The Rat Race_. Tense, tightly plotted novel of split personality. The hero’s housemate is a deeply sublimated homosexual who cracks up when Jake gets a girl; this episode snaps the high pitch of tightrope tension and precipitates the denouement of the novel. Excellent. BISHOP, LEONARD. _Creep Into thy Narrow Bed._ Dial 1954, pbr Pyramid 1956. Story of a vicious abortion racket; woven into the story is the sympathetically treated story of a young lesbian’s self-realization. Very good of kind. BODIN, PAUL. _All Woman’s Flesh_ (trans. from the French of Le Voyage Sentimental, by Lowell Bair.) pbo Berkley 1957. _The Sign of Eros_ (trans. from French) Putnam 1953, pbr Berkley 1955. Both of these involve a man’s attachment to two women who have some homosexual contact, but the emphasis is heterosexual, rather than lesbian. BOLTON, ISABEL. “Ruth and Irma”, ss in The New Yorker, Jan 26, 1947; also in Donald Webster Cory’s _21 Variations on a Theme_. BOTTOME, PHYLLIS. _Jane._ Vanguard, 1957. Story of a street urchin, including lesbian episodes in a girl’s reformatory.