RECENT & READABLE

The Happy Rural Seat, by George Lanning. A brilliant first novel on the subject of the unlived life, with searching variations on the Henry James theme (TIME, March 9).

A Good Man, by Jefferson Young. The story of a Mississippi Negro who decides to paint his house, and white at that (TIME, March 9).

Prince of Players, by Eleanor Ruggles. The tragic and tempestuous life of Edwin Booth, most famed actor of his day (TIME, March 2).

The Plantation, by Ovid Williams Pierce. A skillful story, quietly told, about a self-forgetting Southern family man (TIME, March 2).

The Colditz Story, by P. R. Reid. Prisoners v. prisonkeepers, and how a handful of Allied officers proved that the formidable Nazi fortress of Colditz was not escape-proof after all (TIME, Feb. 23).

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

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