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Show BOOKMAN'S NOTES BY AURELIA BENNION Librarian, Sprapae Branch Pub lie Library, Sugar House I just noticed that Miss Duyn Doty, a teacher in Salt Lake City schools has written the hook "True Stories About the Bears in Yellowstone National Park." Somewhere I read (I wish I could remeber where) that Ben Ames Williams intended writing a series of novels, each on one of the seven deadly sins. His 1 book "Leave Her to Heaven" was on jealosy. I wonder if his new book published this month "House Divided" is a continuation continua-tion of his series. A story about the writing of this book tells of Ohis very thorough research. He was so thorough that he found an error in a family record. According to the family Bible General Longstreet, son of James, was born May 31, 1866. Mr. Williams discovered mention men-tion of the child as early as March in the General's correspondence. corres-pondence. On further' search, Mr. Williams found that the official of-ficial army records show the date as June 1, 1S65. A A The Sherwood Anderson Reader is a complet.- one-volume collection of Anderson's works and about three-fourths of it is not now available elsewhere. out of print books, magazines, limited editions and unpublished unpub-lished manuscripts. It was edited ed-ited by Anderson's friend Paul Roenfield; contains a biographical biograph-ical sketch and a critical estimate. esti-mate. Boston Library has a sign which reads, "Only low conversation conver-sation allowed here." Imagine that in Boston! For Monday, Sept. 22: In Vol. 3 of the new five volume's vol-ume's of HEART THROBS OF THE WEST, published-by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers is a short but full account of the beginning of Sugar House in the chapter on "Shops and Factories" Fac-tories" and in all of the books are references to residents of this community. THE WORLD GROWS 'ROUND MY DOOR by David Fairchild is a delightful description of his home "Kampong" in Florida and the many plants surrounding this home plants from the trop ical and subtropical parts of the world. Each plant has its own story and the account of its acquisition. ac-quisition. But the charm of the book is the author's philosophic reminiscences as he looks back over his seventy years. It is well illustrated. In 1937, Ainslie and Frances Conway, authors of ENCHANTED ENCHANT-ED ISLANDS, left their home in the United States and did some pioneering in the Galapa-Continucd Galapa-Continucd on Page 3 S. H. Library Continued from Page 1 gos Islands off the coast of Ecuador Ecu-ador and owned by that coun- try. This book is the account of their five years spent there. This is another book to enjoy if . you get tired of the hurried and noisy life at home. H. R. Trevor-Roper, in his new book THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER expresses the belief that Germany would have won the war if the government had not been a corrupt and quarreling quarrel-ing court where struggle for power became more important than the war. Hitler had genius gen-ius and at no time was a pawn. |