_The Immoralist._ Knopf 1930, hcr 1948, (m). _The Counterfeiters._ Knopf 1927, (m). GILBERT, EDWIN. _The Hot and the Cool._ Doubleday 1953, pbr tct _See How They Burn_, Popular Library, 1959, (m). Minor and subtle homosexual overtones in a novel of jazz musicians. GODDEN, RUMER. _The Greengage Summer._ Viking 1957, fco. _A Candle for St. Jude_, Viking 1948, fco. GOLDMAN, WILLIAM. _The Temple of Gold._ Knopf 1957, pbr Bantam 1958, (m) minor fco. GOLDSTON, ROBERT. _The Catafalque._ Rinehart 1957, 1958. High-quality thriller about ill-fated archaeological expedition to Spain; crisis precipitated when a sinister Countess takes young Stephanie, the expedition leader’s daughter, to a grotto where a pagan goddess has been worshipped with lesbian rites and attempts to seduce her there. GREENE, GRAHAM. _The Orient Express._ Doubleday 1933, pbr Bantam 1955. Trainful of mixed adventurers includes a lesbian between girl-friends but still trying. GUDMUNDSSON, KRISTMANN. _Winged Citadel._ Holt, 1940, (m). Brief but very explicit homosexual interlude in a fine historical novel of Crete and the Bull-dancers. GUNTER, ARCHIBALD. _A Florida Enchantment._ Home Pubs 1892. No data available, BAYOR. HACKETT, PAUL. _Children of the Stone Lions._ G. P. Putnam 1955. An important lesbian character in a novel which has had good reviews. + HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. _Allan’s Wife._ First published, 1889; now in print in Five Novels of H. Rider Haggard, Dover Press, 1951. A strange story, and this year’s special “find”. Allan, hero of the famous adventure-novelist’s KING SOLOMON’S MINES, is here shown as a young man, in love with Stella Carson—an English girl reared in the unspoilt beauty of a lost valley in Darkest Africa. The romance is complicated by the passionate jealousy of Hendrika—stolen in infancy by gorillas, reared as a female Tarzan, and rescued to be Stella’s companion, foster-sister and adorer. Hendrika first attempts to murder Allan; the scene in which she rages insanely at Allan for stealing Stella’s love, and Allan’s quiet acceptance of the “curious” fact that the strongest loves are not always between those of different sexes, places this book almost alone in forthright English treatment of variance for its date. From this high level of psychological realism, the story reverts to Haggard-type melodrama; Stella is kidnapped by Hendrika’s gorilla friends; dramatically rescued in a thrilling jungle battle; her death from exposure and Hendrika’s remorseful suicide complete the story. Strange, romantic, and quite in a class by itself.