RECENT & READABLE

Notre-Dame of Paris, by Allan Temko. The biography of a cathedral, often as soaring as its spires (TIME, Nov. 28).

The Life of Rudyard Kipling, by C. E. Carrington. Author Carrington has taken up the biographer's burden, and sent forth the best yet on Kipling (TIME, Nov. 28).

Papa Married a Mormon, by John D. Fitzgerald. A pleasant, mock-bucolic Western memoir in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six-guns (TIME, Nov. 28).

The Letters of George Santayana, edited by Daniel Cory. The late great philosopher in informal but brilliant asides on himself, God, man and (among other things) the goodness of jazz (TIME. Nov. 21).

The October Country, by Ray Bradbury. Nineteen stories by a leading horror-and science-fiction practitioner, ranging from satyrs to satire (TIME, Nov. 21).

A Charmed Life, by Mary McCarthy. A brilliant dissection of highbrow lowlife by a handsome woman who is probably America's cleverest writer (TIME, Nov. 14).

Cash McCall, by Cameron Hawley. All about a devastatingly attractive financier who would not love his cash so much, loved he not honor more (TIME, Nov. 7).

The Call to Honor, by General Charles de Gaulle. First installment (up to mid-1942) of the wartime memoirs of a great Frenchman, irritating and yet moving (TIME, Oct. 31).

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant. Oldfashioned, perhaps, but indestructible (TIME, Oct. 24).

Cards of Identity, by Nigel Dennis. One of the most uncomfortably funny satires ever written on psychoanalysis and modern man's displaced soul (TIME, Oct. 17).

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