RECENT & READABLE

With Love from Gracie, by Grace Hegger Lewis. Candid reminiscences by the first wife of Sinclair Lewis about life with the man who created Babbitt very nearly in his own image (TIME, Sept. 17).

Old Soldiers Never Die, by Wolf Mankowitz. A richly comic novel about a Cockney indestructible and his mute pal, who trip up Britain's Welfare State (TIME, Sept. 17).

Caleb, My Son, by Lucy Daniels. A 22-year-old Southern girl's softspoken, painfully honest tale of the new hopes and old heartaches that the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision brought to the South (TIME, Sept. 10).

Richard the Third, by Paul Murray Kendall. A spirited historian tilts a lance with Shakespeare to prove that Richard III was no worse than a 15th century Plantagenet should be (TIME, Sept. 10).

Beyond the Aegean, by Ilias Venezis. A poetic, nostalgic Greek lament for a pastoral Eden, as a boy and his grandfather knew it in pre-World War I Anatolia (TIME, Sept. 3).

A Certain Smile, by Franc,oise Sagan. That Bonjour Tristesse girl does it again in a novel in which sin triumphs over everything but syntax (TIME, Aug. 20).

The Sailor, Sense of Humour and Other Stories, by V. S. Pritchett. Saints, scoundrels and scapegoats put nimbly through the short-story hoop by a top critic (TIME. Aug. 20).

Bitter Honeymoon, by Alberto Moravia. Sardonic short stories from the fine Italian hand of one of the ablest novelists alive on his favorite theme, the battle of the sexes--that war in which all victories are Pyrrhic (TIME, Aug. 13).

The Straight and Narrow Path, by Honor Tracy. The farce of the year, by an Irishwoman who has no qualms about pulling Irish legs, even when they protrude beneath the cassocks of parish priests (TIME, July 30).

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