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Lincoln Finds a General, by Kenneth Williams. The first two volumes of a four-volume Unionside history of the Civil War, a work that tops anything yet done in its field (TIME, Jan. 2).
The Strange Life of Charles Waterton, by Richard Aldington. A fascinating study of a 19th Century Englishman whose passion for exploration and taxidermy was equaled by his antipathy for Protestants and Hanoverians (TIME, Dec. 12).
The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles. U.S. intellectuals on the skids in North Africa; sex and desert atmosphere in an inconclusive but well-written first novel (TIME, Dec. 5).