_The Middle Mist._ Morrow, 1945. Excellent, humorous novel, featuring the boyish Leo (Leonora) who, with her friend Helen, lives on a houseboat quite happily ("It only makes sense for the surplus women to arrange themselves one way or another.") This is, beyond a doubt, the wittiest, most refreshing book on the list; the girls have problems, but they have them, and solve them, without any well-of-loneliness agonizing. The story is resolved in Leo’s gradual feminization and marriage. _The Last of the Wine._ Pantheon, 1956 (m; Greek.). _The King Must Die._ Pantheon 1958, pbr Pocket Books 1959. Minor male and female homosexuality in Cretan setting. _The Charioteer._ Longmans, 1953, Pantheon hcr 1959. Male, major, femininely delicate. Virtually all of this writer’s work contains some reference, though sometimes remote and slight, to variance. RENAULT, PAUL. _Raw Interludes._ Brookwood, 1957, scv. _No_ relation to Mary Renault; since Renault, Mary, has a double plus, the editors agree we should invent a double minus. RICE, CRAIG. _Having Wonderful Crime._ Simon & Schuster, 1943. Hilarious murder mystery leads into the byways and gay bars of Greenwich village. RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL. _The End of a Childhood._ London, Reinemann, 1934, hcr N. Y. Norton. _The Getting of Wisdom._ N. Y. Duffield, 1910. Both are volumes of loosely connected variant short stories. ROLLAND, ROMAINE. _Annette and Sylvie._ Holt, 1925. The first volume of a trilogy, this deals with an intense attachment between two young (adolescent) half sisters who meet for the first time in their teens. RONALD, JAMES. _The Angry Woman._ Lippincott 1948, Bantam pbr 1950. A businesswoman keeps a young girl reluctantly captivated until the girl commits suicide. RONNS, EDWARD. _The State Department Murders._ pbo, Gold Medal 1952, (m) fco. ROSMANITH, OLGA. _Unholy Flame._ pbo Gold Medal 1952, (m) fco. (But I like this personally very much. A modern Svengali.) + ROSS, WALTER. _The Immortal._ Simon & Schuster 1958, Pocket Books Cardinal Edition 1959, (m). ROYDE-SMITH, NAOMI. _The Tortoiseshell Cat._ Boni & Liveright 1925. An unworldly girl’s capture by a predatory lesbian. _The Island._ Harper, 1930. Sad, tense book about an ugly, unhappy girl nicknamed “Goosey” and a clinging cousin who will neither love her nor let her go. RUARK, ROBERT. _Something of Value._ Doubleday 1955, pbr Pocket Books 1958. Very minor. RYAN, MARK. _Twisted Loves._ Bedside Books 1959, pbo, scv. SABATIER, ROBERT. _Boulevard._ (Prix de Paris award novel, trans. from French by Lowell Blair). David McKay 1958, pbr Dell 59, (m). marginal.