Books: Recent & Readable, Sep. 4, 1950

Collected Stories of William Faulkner.

Forty-two stories, half of them good, half a dozen very good, by one of the best U.S. writers of his generation (TIME, Aug. 28).

Cats and People, by Frances and Richard Lockridge. Felis domestica, from tail to whiskers, from ancient Egypt to the present (TIME, Aug. 28).

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...

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