RECENT & READABLE

This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robbert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April 3).

Nothing, by Henry Green. An amusing inquiry into the paradox of solemn youth and flaming age in postwar Britain, by the author of Loving (TIME, March 27).

A Degree of Prudery, by Emily Hahn.

A skillful biography of prim 1 8th Century British Novelist Fanny Burney, with Sam uel Johnson and King George III, among others, as supporting characters (TiME, March 27).

Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England, by Robin Cruikshank. Informal chapters on the sturdy characters and irritating characteristics of Queen Victoria's energetic subjects (TIME, March 20).

The Outlander, by Germaine Guevremont. What happens when a careless, high-spirited wanderer settles down in a tiny, pious farm hamlet in Quebec. Good regional writing with nature as a major character (TIME, March 13).

John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolina statesman who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the champion of states' rights and of the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March 6).

The Wall, by John Hersey. The tragic, agonized story of Jews resisting extermination in Warsaw's ghetto during the Nazi occupation; a sometimes moving, often tedious novel in diary form which never quite succeeds in recapturing the factual tang and immediacy of Hiroshima (TIME, March 6).

Peterson, Book III, by William Carlos Williams. The third volume of a jumpy but virile four-part poem by a New Jersey pediatrician who versifies between cases (TIME, Feb. 13).

The Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Cary. 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).

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