If Edmund Wilson was one of this century's most prolific—and provocative—literary critics, he was an equally proficient letter writer, as a selection of his Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912—1972 clearly attests. Selected and edited by Elena Wilson, with an introduction by Daniel Aaron and foreword by Leon Edel, the letters are now available in a Farrar, Straus & Giroux paperback edition [$8.95], As Wilson is valued as an American writer, so Cicero is esteemed as the noblest Roman orator of them all. Readers unacquainted with Cicero's mastery of Latin and majesty of style may become so by acquiring a copy of his Letters to Atticus, a new Penguin classic [$5.95]. The first in a proposed three-volume translation of Cicero's extant correspondence (a collection of 900 letters published posthumously), the Atticus epistles were translated by Harvard classicist D. R. Shackleton Bailey, who has also written an introduction and bibliographical note. Russell Kirk's John Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics, first published by Chicago in 1951 and republished by Henry Regnery Company in 1964, has been issued in a third edition by Liberty Press [hardback $9.00, paperback $3.50]. The new edition has appendices containing several of Randolph's most important speeches—hitherto unavailable in book form—and a representative selection of his letters, some never published before. Another Virginian, the most saintly of her saints, the most revered of her heroes, is the subject of Thomas L. Connelly's The Marble Man, the man being Robert E. Lee. A study of Lee and "his image in American society," the book received widespread critical acclaim when first published last year by LSU Press, also the publisher of the recent paperback edition [$5.95]. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Southerner whose influence on American history may well surpass that of Lee, and his life is examined in a paperback edition of King, a biography by David Levering Lewis reissued by Illinois [$5.95]. Only one English king has borne the name of John—and for good reason, as W. L. Warren explains in a new edition of King John released by California [$15.00 hardback, $4.95 paperback]. Vintage has reprinted Jessica Mitford's lively, laughable account of her association with the American Communist Party in the 1950's, which she recalls as A Fine Old Conflict [$4.95]. Bantam has republished Preminger, the autobiography of a flamboyant filmmaker and skirtchaser [$2.25].