literary publications is The New York Review of Books. As I work my way steadily through its erudite reviews of last year's books my pulse begins to quicken, for I am approaching my favorite section in the Review—I mean the classified ads, of course, and especially the Personals. These are not your ordinary personals, but rather cris de coeur written by intelligent, sensitive, articulate people who set as high standards for companionship as the reviewers do for books. Typical is the lady who writes: “Life‐Involved Woman, 50, seeks vital man enjoying middle years—responsive, self‐aware, a bit adventurous, of rustic bent and resourceful mind, receptive to some sharing and broadening of interests.” Occaionally they get a little risque: “Curious About Threesomes? Virile, versatile WASP writer, gently initiates DC‐MD‐Va couples. Intelligent, personable, discreet.” Late the other evening I polished off an issue of T.N.Y.R.B. before going to sleep; my mind was whirling with literary allusions and intelligent, personable, discreet threesomes. The result of this late‐night literary Bumstead sandwich was the following dream.... Strictly Classified

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LITERARY REMINISCENCES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS. By Ivan Turgenev. Translated from the Russian with an Introduction by David Magarshack. Preface by Edmund Wilson. 309 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. $5. A Master