Books: RECENT & READABLE, Nov. 9, 1953

Splendid Poseur, by M. M. Marberry.

How Joaquin Miller, the “Byron of the Rockies,” persuaded his generation that he was a poet (TIME, Nov. 2).

The Traitor and the Spy, by James Thomas Flexner. How Benedict Arnold wove treason and Major John Andre was caught in the web; an impressive double history, told with scholarship and edge (TIME, Oct. 19).

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume I, by Ernest Jones. Young Dr.

Freud, fascinatingly analyzed by his leading British disciple (TIME, Oct. 19).

The Doctor and the Devils, by Dylan Thomas. An outstanding film script in spired by the notorious case of the 19th century Edinburgh body snatchers, Burke and Hare (TIME, Oct. 5).

The Renaissance, by Will Durant. Volume V of the ambitious popular survey o Western civilization which has engaged Historian Durant for nearly 25 year (TIME, Sept. 28).

Chekhov, by David Magarshack. A lively account of the short and passionate life of Russia’s greatest playwright (TIME, Sept. 28).

The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow. A Chicago tough guy discovers his destiny with the help of the Harvard Classics and a beautiful tart (TIME, Sept. 21 ).

The Boat, by Walter Gibson. Thirty days in a lifeboat on the Indian Ocean; a gruesome masterpiece of death and survival (TIME, Sept. 21).

The Spirit of St. Louis, by Charles A.

Lindbergh. An engrossing re-creation of the epoch-making flight, by the man who made it (TIME, Sept. 14).

Lelia, by Andre Maurois. A fine biography of the restless woman who called herself George Sand (TIME, Sept. 14).