RECENT & READABLE

The Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June 12).

The Yankee Exodus, by Stewart H. Holbrook. How & why generations of 19th Century New Englanders took the trail West; an affectionate retracing by a Vermonter whose own family stayed home (TIME, June 12).

Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, by Amy Kelly. A handsome, beguiling biography of the greatest dynast of her day, who married two kings, bore two more (TIME, June 12).

Captain Sam Grant, by Lloyd Lewis. A rich reconstruction of Ulysses Grant's early years, in a biography that strips much of the stiffness and stuffiness from his legend (TIME, May 29).

D. H. Lawrence: Portrait of a Genius But . . ., by Richard Aldington. A lively life of the icon-smashing author of Lady Chatterley's Lover (TIME, May 29).

No Time to Look Back, by Leslie Greener. A South African novelist finds a Christlike figure among the prisoners in a Japanese P.W. camp, traces his influence on prisoners and guards in a moving, if sometimes oracular story (TIME, May 22).

The Barkeep of Blemont, by Marcel Ayme. What happens to wine-loving, live-and-let-live Bartender Leopold when he is caught in the postLiberation politics of his French town (TIME. May 15).

A Woman of Means, by Peter Taylor. Jealousy, insanity and the tensions of an unhappy marriage swirling about the head of a boy (TIME, May 15).

Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME, May 1).

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