RECENT & READABLE

Burmese Days, by George Orwell. Reissue of a fine early novel by the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four; a sharp, amusing and often exciting story of native intrigue and white men's burdens in a Burmese village (TIME, Feb. 6).

The Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Gary. That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scapegrace painter (TIME, Feb. 6).

Bring Out Your Dead, by J. H. Powell. The horror and heroism of Philadelphia's yellow-fever plague in 1793 (TIME, Jan. 23).

The God That Failed, by Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Louis Fischer and Stephen Spender. Six disillusioned men tell why they got into and out of Communism (TIME, Jan. 9).

Lincoln Finds a General, by Kenneth Williams. The first two volumes of a four-volume Unionside history of the Civil War, a job that tops anything yet done in its field (TIME, Jan. 2).

The Strange Life of Charles Waterton, by Richard Aldington. A fascinating study of a 19th Century English eccentric whose passion for exploration and taxidermy was equaled by his antipathy to Protestants and the House of Hanover (TIME, Dec. 12).

The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles. U.S. intellectuals on the skids in North Africa; sex and desert atmosphere in an inconclusive but well-written first novel (TIME, Dec. 5).

The Struggle for Guadalcanal, by Samuel Eliot Morison. Volume V of Morison's fine, lively history of the U.S. Navy in World War II, a rare combination of excitement and scholarship (TIME, Nov. 28).

The Cry and the Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME, Nov. 14).

Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope. An acid etching of early 19th Century U.S. manners & morals --with the passage of time turning a bitter spanking into an antiquarian gold mine (TIME, Oct. 24).

The Way West, by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. A well-knit yarn about an Oregon-bound covered-wagon train in which no one resembles Jane Russell and no one gets scalped (TIME, Oct. 17).

Loving, by Henry Green. A poetic novel about eccentric English masters and scheming servants in an Irish castle, as seen from drawing room and backstairs; the first U.S. appearance of a first-rate British novelist (TIME, Oct. 10).

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