Cinema: Feb. 3, 1961

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Parodies—An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm and After, edited by Dwight Macdonald. The editor has put together his excellent collection with wit as well as paste, and has included examples of an important subspecies of parody—the lampoon an author writes unintentionally of his own work.

Among the Dangs, by George P. Elliott. Strange, unsettling, skillfully done stories by a new author whose subjects range from a weird expedition among cannibals to a totalitarian solution to the race problem.

Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. Crystalline recollections by Denmark's greatly gifted author of a decade (1921-31) spent in Kenya; her theme, written as an elegy, is the relation of master and servant.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*

2. Hawaii, Michener (2)

3. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (3)

4. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (4)

5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (8)

6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (6)

7. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (5)

8. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (7)

9. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9)

10. Rabbit, Run, Updike

NONFICTION

1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1)

2. The Waste Makers, Packard (2)

3. Who Killed Society? Amory (4)

4. The Snake Has All the Lines, Kerr (3)

5. Born Free, Adamson (5)

6. The Politics of Upheaval, Schlesinger (9)

7. Baruch: The Public Years, (8)

8. Vanity Fair ed. by Amory and Bradlee (6)

9. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (7)

10. We Hold These Truths, Murray (10)