RECENT & READABLE

Friar Felix at Large, by H. F. M. Prescott. The rough and rocky road to Je rusalem as traveled by 1 5th Century -Frater Felix Fabri, and described with Chaucerian zest in his account; retold in a good night's reading by Novelist Prescott (TIME, April 10).

This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-doc umented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose ex ploits (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 18th Cen tury British Novelist Fanny Burney, with Samuel 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 extermi nation 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).

Paterson 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).

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