RECENT & READABLE

Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope.

Country life in Victorian England with a full-blown Trollopean cast of characters and enough novelist's insight to equip a baker's dozen contemporary fictioneers; re-issued as the first of a new Trollope series (TIME, July 10).

Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote.

How a God-fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion (TIME, July 3).

America Begins, edited by Richard M. Dorson. A selection from the diaries, memoirs, histories and letters of early American settlers provides some bright footnotes to the U.S. story (TIME, July 3).

World Enough and Time, by Robert Penn Warren. Political intrigue, murder and a good man's struggles of conscience in early 19th Century Kentucky; a rich, uneven historical novel by the author of All the King's Men (TIME, June 26).

There'll Always Be a Drayneflete, by Osbert Lancaster. A witty satire on the British way of life as seen through the architectural history of an imaginary country town (TIME, June 26).

The Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June 26).

John Adams and the American Revolution, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. A brisk retossing of the salad days of the commonsensical second President of the U.S., which turns up a personality much crisper than most historians have allowed him (TIME, June 19).

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 Greeneish theme (TIME, June 12).

The Yankee Exodus, by Stewart H. Holbrook. How & why generations of 19th Century New Englanders took the trail West; a well-documented 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).

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