THE NIGHT OF TIME (338 pp.)—René Fülöp-Miller—Bobbs-Merrill ($3.75). Adam Ember is a common soldier in a nameless army. Hill 317 is a hopeless position in a strategy never understood. The landscape ...

Behind a door deep within the lower floors of the National Library of Scotland lies a forgotten street which gives a glimpse of how Edinburgh looked centuries ago. Libberton's Wynd, in the heart of ...