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Show Book Reviews Brief reviews follow of current books available at the public library: li-brary: Fiction "Mary, by Shalom A.sch," tells the story of Mary, mother of Jesus from her betrothal to the Resurrection. Resur-rection. The later years passed over quickly but the story of Jesus as a child is told in detail. It is an intimate picture of a devoted family, fam-ily, a little different from ordinary households, because of the presence pres-ence of the unusual child and the parents humble awareness of some high destiny for Him. "West Of The Hill," by Gladys Carrol Hasty, is another of this author's Maine stories, this, time of the 1860's tells of the first two years of Brad and Molly's married mar-ried life. Mistreated and desperate, she ran away from her foster parents' par-ents' home to marry the young farmer and fish peddler to life for the first time among neighbors, and to find undreamed happiness in a home of her own. The book has human warmth and tenderness, the characters are real, but the theme of religious, and racial tolerance tol-erance is sometimes labored almost to a point of becoming a tract. General "This I Remember," by Eleanor Roosevelt, is a continuation of the autobiography begun in, "This Is My Story," which covers the years, of Roosevelt's governorship and presidency and ends with his death. The war years are of course the most interesting. Simply written, candid about family finances and about her matriarchal mother-in-law, she tells of the difficulties of being mistress of the White House. One chapter tells of her experiences exper-iences with the American Youth Congress and what she learned about Communists. Social Science ' Punishment Without Crime, by Fineberg, Solomon A n d i 1 1. A thoughtful book, which discusses the many manifestations of prejudice, pre-judice, its psychological causes, organizations or-ganizations and methods in dealing deal-ing with it, and what the individual individ-ual can do to help. Most of the eminently sinsible suggestions are unspectacular or designed for the slow progress of changing habitual attitudes. |