Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 21, 1950

The Secret Game, by Francois Boyer.

A stark little story about the game with animals and crosses that two French children thought up after seeing too much death (TIME, Aug. 14).

Springtime in Paris, by Elliot Paul. A postwar report by the author of The Last Time I Saw Paris; chiefly for fellow Francophiles (TIME, Aug. 14).

The Old Bailey and Its Trials, by Bernard O'Donnell. A hair-raising history of London's famous, once infamous, old court of law and its neighbor, Newgate Prison (TiME, Aug. 7).

Beyond Defeat, by Hans Richter. The last, lost stages...

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