BOURDET, ÉDOUARD. _The Captive._ N. Y., Brentano’s 1926. Drama based on a triangle—man, wife, and a woman who is winning the affections of the latter. BOURJAILY, VANCE. _The End of My Life._ Scribner’s 1947, pbr Bantam 1952, (m). _The Violated._ Dial 1958, pbr Bantam 1959, (m). _The Hound of Earth._ Scribner 1955, pbr Permabooks, 1956, (m). Also includes a minor, and unsympathetic lesbian character. BOWEN, ELIZABETH. _The Hotel._ N. Y. Dial 1928. A shy young girl sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman. BOWLES, JANE. _Two Serious Ladies._ N. Y. Knopf, 1943. The emancipation of an inhibited American housewife. BOYLE, KAY. “The Bridegroom’s Body” ss in _The Crazy Hunter_, Harcourt 1938, 1940. Also qpb, Beacon Press, 1958, (m). _Gentlemen, I Address you Privately._ NY, Smith 1933, (m). _Monday Night._ N. Y. Harcourt 1938, hcr New Directions, n.d. Brief account of a lesbian affair through the eyes of a child. BRADLEY, MARION Z. “Centaurus Changeling” in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April, 1954. Science Fiction novel; intensely emotional relationship between three wives of alien bureaucrat leads to jealousy and tragedy when the eldest, Cassiana, takes an outsider into their home and makes a favorite of her. _The Planet Savers_, in Amazing Stories, Dec. 1958, (m). Science fiction of split personality, one equivocally homosexual. BRAND, MAX. (pseud of Frederick Faust). _The Night Horseman._ G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920, hcr Dodd, Mead 1952, pbr Pocket Books 1954, (m). Unusual Western story of a strange cowboy who has an almost supernatural influence on horses and other men; his foster father mysteriously declines when he leaves, makes a miraculous recovery when he returns home. Subtle and good of its kind. BRINIG, MYRON. _The Looking Glass Heart._ Sagamore, 1958. One lesbian episode, treated vaguely. (Minority report says that nevertheless it is so clearly and well done that the book is worth anyone’s reading.) BRITAIN, SLOAN. _The Needle._ pbo Beacon Books, 1959. Overly contrived shocker about Gina, a young girl who falls simultaneously into narcotics, lesbianism, prostitution and the hands of a weird couple dabbling in incest. Evening waster, rather better than most but leaves a bitter taste. + _First Person, Third Sex._ pbo Newsstand Library 1959. Very well-written novel of Paula Harman, young schoolteacher coming to terms with her life as a lesbian through bitter experience. Don’t let the lurid paperback covers and blurb scare you off, this is a NOVEL—well worth hard covers and a steal at 35¢.