Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 8, 1951

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Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., by John P. Marquand. Two more Marquand males—this time a general and a newsbroadcaster —find the flavor of success mixed with the taste of ashes (TIME, Oct. 1).

The Conduct of Life, by Lewis Mumford. Humanist Mumford weighs modern life, finds it wanting, and prescribes a provocative set of individual rules for regeneration; Vol. IV of a philosophical tetralogy which began with Technics and Civilization (TIME, Oct. i).

Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters of Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance of saving their souls (TIME, Sept. 24).

The Rise and Fall of Hermann Goering, by Willi Frischauer. The all but incredible story of one of the most energetic moral relativists of the 20th Century; popular biography at its best (TIME, Sept. 24).

Shadows Move Among Them, by Edgar Mittelhöizer. Uninhibited high jinks about a singularly unorthodox missionary in British Guiana, somewhat befogged by the suggestion that the high jinks add up to ethical Utopia (TIME, Sept. 17).

The Holy Sinner, by Thomas Mann. A medieval version of the Oedipus legend with a happy ending; retold with affectionate irony and a new twist or two (TIME, Sept. 10).

Lie Down in Darkness, by William Styron. Decay and aimlessness in country-club Virginia; a first novel by a 26-year-old Southerner who writes well if not refreshingly (TIME, Sept. 10).

Dizzy, by Hesketh Pearson. A lively, short biography of Disraeli, by an enthusiastic admirer (TIME, Sept. 3).