RECENT & READABLE

The Grand Peregrination, by Maurice Collis. The 16th Century travels of the Marco Polo-like Portuguese, Fernao Mendes Pinto, whose Far East adventures cast him as soldier, merchant, pirate, slave, ambassador and Jesuit novice (TIME, March 19).

Judgment on Delchev, by Eric Ambler. A thriller, first in ten years, by the author of A Coffin for Dimitrios (TIME, March 19).

The Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME, March 12).

His Eye Is on the Sparrow, by Ethel Waters. Candid autobiography; a success story edged with bitterness (TIME, March 12).

Sink 'Em All, by Charles A. Lockwood; Battle Submerged, byHarleyCope and Walter Karig. The coming of age of the U.S. submarine service; dramatic stories of the subs in World War II (TIME, March 5).

From Here to Eternity, by James Jones. Man's inhumanity to man in the prewar Army; an eloquent four-lettered blast by an angry first novelist (TIME, Feb. 26).

Florence Nightingale, by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Incandescent humanitarianism--and the "voices" that inspired it--in a biography which notably revises the standard portrait (TIME, Feb. 26).

The Age of Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hy-die's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME, Feb. 26).

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