RECENT & READABLE

Jenkins' Ear, by Odell and Willard Shepard. A talky but ingenious historical about Bonnie Prince Charlie (TIME, April 2).

Journey for Our Time, by Astolphe de Custine. The travels and disillusionments of a French aristocrat who went to Russia in 1839 and found a police state (TIME, April 2).

Conjugal Love, by Alberto Moravia. A novel of the ecstasies and cruelties of married love; Moravia's best yet (TIME, March 26).

Darkness and Day, by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Further astonishing dilemmas of some of Compton-Burnett's genteel English characters; contrived mainly to let the characters gossip unconventionally about life, death and each other (TIME, March 26).

Suleiman the Magnificent, by Harold Lamb. A highly readable reconstruction of the great sultan's life; by a popular historian who thinks the West has usually rated Suleiman too low (TIME, March 26).

Festival, by J. B. Priestley. Highly topical hijinks about how the Festival of Britain hits a fictional English town (TiME, March 26).

Judgment on Deltchev, by Eric Ambler. A thriller, first in ten years, by the author of A Coffin for Dimitrios (TIME, March 19).

The Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME, March 12).

His Eye Is on the Sparrow, by Ethel Waters. Candid autobiography; a success story edged with bitterness (TIME, March 12).

Sink 'Em All, by Charles A. Lockwood; Battle Submerged, by Harley Cope and Walter Karig. The coming of age of the U.S. submarine service; dramatic stories of the subs in World War II (TIME, March 5).

From Here to Eternity, by James Jones. Man's inhumanity to man in the prewar Army; an eloquent four-lettered blast by an angry first novelist (TiME, Feb. 26).

The Age of Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hydie's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME, Feb. 26).

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