Dartmouth Authors

Robert A. Maguire '51. Gogol From theTwentieth Century: Eleven Essays, Princeton University Press, $17.50. Author of RedVirgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920's (1968), the Columbia University professor now turns his attention to Gogol, popular for nearly a century and a half in Russia to readers and to critics, who are incited to contradictory and violent opinions about his value and philosophical insights. In an introductory survey of 53 pages, Maguire discusses Gogol criticism from its 19th-century backgrounds to the present day. He then offers ten essays by Russian scholars, edited and translated by him into English for the first time.

Kenneth B. Platnick '58. The Option Game:Puts and calls and how to play them, CommuniConcepts Inc. (New York), $12. A former communications specialist with the American Stock Exchange writes breezily about "this new game sweeping the country." But: "Greed ... is the Number One killer when it comes to profit in the option game."