Books: RECENT & READABLE, Apr. 23, 1951

A King's Story. The memoirs of the Duke of Windsor (TIME, April 16).

The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April 9).

Thirty Years with G.B.S., by Blanche Patch. Shaw through the eyes of a secretary who was never "swept away" (TIME, April 9).

The Tolstoy Home, by Tatiana Sukhotin-Tolstoy. Life with a father who also happened to be one of the eccentric geniuses of modern history (TIME, April 9).

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