SACKVILLE-WEST, VICTORIA. _The Dark Island._ Doubleday, 1934. Shirin is the over-emotional, unconventional wife of Venn, dour owner of the “dark island”, Storn. He treats Shirin so badly that she seeks companionship, love and affection from Christina, her husband’s secretary; through jealousy (not unmixed with pure sadism) Venn arranges for Christina to be drowned in a boating “accident”. Haunting. + SALEM, RANDY. _Chris._ Beacon pbo, 1959. The plus indicates good of kind, not intrinsic merit. An interesting story of a lesbian triangle—Chris, Dizz, and young Carol. One reader commented that this story was a sort of lesbian dreamworld—these women seemed to live in a society, and a world, completely unmixed with ordinary life at all. Certainly they are all treated as quite the ordinary thing, and there are almost no hints that there is a heterosexual world outside the gay one, which must be taken into account. Certainly it makes no incursions into the novel. Chris, a conchologist, her life complicated by her frigid girl-friend Dizz, suffers and drinks too much and sleeps around until Carol, one of her random pick-ups, decides to stick to her, and eventually frees Chris from this attachment. Good but unreal. + SANDBURG, HELGA. _The Wheel of Earth._ McDowell, Oblensky 1958. Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older woman, Genevieve. SARTON, MAY. _A Shower of Summer Days._ Rinehart, 1952. SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. _No Exit._ Knopf 1947, qpb Vintage 1955. Play. SAVAGE, KIM. _Girl’s Dorm._ Vixen Press 1952. _Baby Makes Three._ Vixen, 1953. No reports on either of these, but in view of the publisher they are probably evening wasters at best. SAYERS, DOROTHY L. _The Dawson Pedigree._ Harcourt 1928, fco. + SCHIDDEL, EDMUND. _Girl with the Golden Yo-Yo._ pbo Berkley 1955, 1959, (m). Also contains some brief analysis of lesbian jazz circles in Germany after WWI. _The Other Side of the Night._ pbo Avon 1954-5, Berkley 1959, (m). SCHMITT, GLADYS. _Confessors of the Name._ Dial, 1952, pbr Permabooks ca. 1953-55. A relatively minor lesbian character in a long novel of ancient Rome, with explicit lesbian scenes during a Saturnalia orgy. _A Small Fire._ Dial 1958. (m.) minor. _Alexandra._ Dial 1947, pbr Pocket Books 1949. Very vague and minor threads of contact in a novel of intense friendship between two women. Emotionally high.