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Show Several Fine Books Added To Shelves OPublic Library BOOKS OF GENERAL INTEREST INTER-EST "An Encyclopedia of Modern Mod-ern Politics", by Walter Theimer. This book lists in alphabetical order or-der political terms, systems and current political thought. Information Informa-tion of most countries of the world is given, with the summaries of their constitutions, their most important im-portant leaders, historians, and their political philosophers. "Alcohol and Social Responsibility", Responsibi-lity", by Raymond G. McCarthy and Edgar M. Douglas. Alcoholism Alcohol-ism is one of the major health problems pro-blems of this country. Educators have long realized the need of scientific teaching materials that survey the problems and approaches approach-es a solution. This is such a volume. It is based on sound research. Mr. McCarthy was field investigator of the Yale Plan Clinic and in 1945 became its executive director. This gives him direct source for the studies stu-dies of alcoholism and its new educational ed-ucational approach. "Art of Real Happiness", by Norman Vincent Peale and Smiley Blanton. An approach to self-understanding and solving emotional problems with the help of religion and psychology. There are chapters on love and hate, achieving peace of mind, learning how to relax, keeping healthy under pressure, relieving re-lieving depression and anxiety, finding comfort after bereavement, and growing older happily. "Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson", Emer-son", by Ralph L. Rusk. A readable read-able biography of the nineteenth-century nineteenth-century essayist based mostly on his unpublished manuscripts, journals, jour-nals, and letters. This is classed as one of the fifty notable books of 1949. "Peabody Sisters of Salem", by Mrs Louis Tharp.' The combined biographies of the three Peabody sisters of nineteenth century Salem whose lives touch many of the great intellectual figures of that time. Mary, married Horace Mann, the educator; Sophia married Na-thanial Na-thanial Hawthorne; and Elizabeth, who never married was the founder of the American kindergarden. FICTION "Hear My Heart Speak", by Charlotte Paul is a rare kind of story. It is a novel of a young man who was suddenly forced into a life of silence but whose adjustment created a new world of friendships. "Circle of the Day", by Helen Howe A woman who was happy with her husband, her daughter and her position in life as a New York matron was forced on her tenth wedding anniversary, to meet a condition that could change her life. At the end of the day, she is able to get a perspective of her past life and of the responsibility of the future. "Mingo Dadney", by James H. Street is a continuation of the youngest Dabney in "Tomorrow We Reap". "The Wall", by John R. Hersey. The wall was an inclosure which the Germans built to confine the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. This is the story of some of those Jews. |