RECENT & READABLE

Lady of Beauty, by Kikou Yamata. An aristocratic lady of prewar Japan profiled in a novel as spare and beautiful as Fujiyama at dawn (TIME. Aug. 30).

Mussolini, by Paolo Monelli. A sharp likeness that makes the would-be Caesar look like a buffoon (TIME. Aug. 23).

The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, by Hermann Hagedorn. A fine old romp with Teddy and all the kids (TIME, Aug. 16 ).

The Golden Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly. A handful of nuggets from Britain's now defunct little magazine, Horizon, including some first-rate short stories and poetry (TIME, Aug. 16).

Napoleon's Letters, edited by J. M. Thomson. The great dictator's dictations on every subject under the sun add up to a fine picture of "N" (TIME. Aug. 9).

A Fable, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner unveils a World War I passion play with a corporal as Christ, but veils his deeper meanings (TIME, Aug. 2).

Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill. The heroic story of a legless R.A.F. ace who destroyed 22 1/2 enemy planes, kept his German captors busy recapturing him (TIME, Aug. 2).

The Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. A powerful fiction account of the death of Maxim Gorki, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, June 7).

Madame de Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford. A life of Louis XV's mistress, done in literary brocades (TIME, June 7).

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