RECENT & READABLE

The Invisible Writing, by Arthur Koestler. A brilliant travelogue (the second volume of his autobiography) describing the famous ex-Communist's journey through and out of the Marxist hell (TIME, Oct. 11).

Melbourne, by Lord David Cecil. A first-rate account of Britain's last big Whig, who said: "This damned morality will ruin everything'' (TIME, Oct. 11).

The Dancing Bear, by Frances Faviell, and Acquainted with the Night, by Heinrich Boll. Two exciting accounts, one fact, the other fiction, of Germany and its postwar tragedies (TIME, Oct. 4).

Most Likely to Succeed, by John Dos Passos. Fellow-traveling liberals skewered with considerable skill (TIME, Sept. 27).

The Ramayana, by Aubrey Menen. One of the best satirists between New York and Calcutta pokes good fun at a great Hindu epic and at the human race (TIME, Sept. 27).

Down with Skool, by Geoffrey Wiilans and Ronald Searle. Possibly the funniest junior class war since Peck's Bad Boy (TIME, Sept. 20).

An American in India, by Saunders Redding. A chilling exposition of the Communist danger in Nehruland (TIME, Sept. 20).

The Wilder Shores of Love, by Lesley Blanch. The fascinating and authentic tales of four women who loved well, possibly wisely, and certainly widely, from British authors and German princes to Turkish sultans (TIME, Sept. 13).

The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley, by Phyllis McGinley. The best writer of light verse in the U.S. pays her gentle and wryly intelligent respects to everyday people and things and to a gallery of Christian saints (TIME, July 19).

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