RECENT & READABLE

LIFE'S Picture History of Western Man. A vividly illustrated panorama of a thousand years of Western civilization (TIME, Nov. 5).

Katherine Mansfield's Letters to John Middleton Murry. Touchingly intimate self-revelations by the author of some of the finest short stories in the language (TIME, Nov. 5).

The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene. A shocker about an adulterous love that leads to sainthood -- in one of the most controversial endings of the year (TIME, Oct. 29).

The Young Visiters, by Daisy Ashford. Reprint (first published 1919) of the human comedy of Victorian England as seen by a "sublime" novelist of nine (TIME, Oct. 22).

Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and rarely exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man ; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME, Oct. 8).

Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., by John P. Marquand. Two more Marquand males --this time a general and a news broadcaster -- find the flavor of success mixed with the taste of ashes (TiME, Oct. 1).

Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters of Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance of saving their souls (TIME, Sept. 24).

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