Briefly Noted review of "The Quality of Mercy" (Nan A. Talese), by Barry Unsworth.

Briefly Noted review of "A Train in Winter" (Harper), by Caroline Moorehead.

Briefly Noted review of "Haiti" (Metroplitan), by Laurent Dubois.

ABSTRACT: Briefly Noted review of "Is That a Fish in Your Ear?"

ABSTRACT: Briefly Noted review of "Yeats and Violence" (Oxford; $35), by Michael Wood.

Briefly Noted review of "An Honourable Englishman" (Random House), by Adam Sisman.

Briefly Noted review of "How It All Began" (Viking), by Penelope Lively.

Briefly Noted review of "The Street Sweeper" (Riverhead), by Elliot Perlman.

Briefly Noted review of "Stalking Nabokov" (Columbia University Press), by Brian Boyd.

Briefly Noted review of "Perlmann's Silence" (Grove), by Pascal Mercier.