RECENT & READABLE

Out of Red China, by Liu Shaw-tong. A straight and human account of life under Mao Tse-tung's new order, by a young Chinese who took a close look, then ran for his life (TIME, Feb. 9).

The Little Madeleine, by Mrs. Robert Henrey. Recollections of a girlhood in Paris during the early part of the century; a fine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism (TIME, Feb. 9).

The Mongol Empire, by Michael Prawdin. First U.S. publication of a classic history of Genghis Khan and his successors; originally (1938) published in German (TIME, Feb. 9).

The White Rabbit, by Bruce Marshall. The incredible-but-true story of Yeo-Thomas, the Molyneux couturier who turned British agent and became a leader of the French Resistance (TIME, Feb. 2).

The Little Emperors, by Alfred Duggan. An engagingly sardonic story of a 5th century bureaucrat doomed to watch from the bogs of Britain the decline & fall of the Roman Empire (TIME, Jan. 26).

The Shipwrecked, by Graham Greene. The career of a genteel rotter not unscrupulous enough to be successful; a reissue of Greene's little-noted novel of 1935, England Made Me (TIME, Jan. 19).

The Complete Poems and Plays, by T. S. Eliot. The 61 poems and three verse plays that have earned their author the right to be known as the most influential poet of his day (TIME, Dec. 22).

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