RECENT & READABLE

The Letters of Private Wheeler. An absorbing record of life in the British army during the Napoleonic wars, as told in the newly discovered letters of a sharp-eyed Somerset infantryman (TIME, March 3).

Adventures in Two Worlds, by A. J. Gronin. Autobiographical tales by a doctor who became a bestselling novelist (TIME, Feb. 25.)

Grand Right and Left, by Louis Kronenberger. A deftly witty farce about the richest man in the world and his compulsions as a collector (TIME, Feb. 25).

Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME, Feb. 18).

The Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME, Feb. 18).

My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum, set in the Rebecca country 100 or more years ago (TIME, Feb. 11).

I Led Three Lives, by Herbert Philbrick. Fascinating play-by-play account of Author Philbrick's nine years as an FBI counterspy in the Communist Party and some of its fronts (TIME, Feb. 11).

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