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Show In Your Library "New Challenges to Our Schools" edited by Sturges F. Carey Americans believe that it takes educated citizens to run a democracy. democ-racy. We depend on our schools to turn out these educated citizens. Are the schools living up. to this trust? The editor has tried to show what Americans think of their schools, and why, and what is being done about it. "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover" The Cabinet and the Presidency The second volume of Mr. Hoover's Hoov-er's autobiography covering many of the public issues of the years 1920 to 1933, when he served 8 years as Secretary of Commerce and four as President. "A Man Called Peter" A story of Peter Marshall by Catherine Marshall A story of a great modern minister. mini-ster. He came to this country as a poor Scottish immigrant, and in nineteen years he had risen to the Chaplain of the United States Senate. "Desiree" by Annemarie Selinko Napoleon and the Napoleonic era come alive in this narrative of Desiree, a silk merchant's daughter daugh-ter who became queen of Sweden. ' "The Velvet Doublet'' by James H. Street Juan Rodrigo, as an old man, is the narrator of this story of Spain in the days of the Inquisir sitions and the voyages of Columbus. Colum-bus. He tells of his youthful wanderings wan-derings and the thrill of being the first to sight land on Columbus' Colum-bus' first voyage, thereby earning earn-ing the right to the Velvet Doublet. Doub-let. "Girl Trouble" By James L. Summers It sometimes happens that a "nice guy" a boy with a good family background, a healthy interest in-terest in sports, a satisfactory school record, fair success with girls finds that he can get himself him-self into jams. |