Show The dining rooms on most cruise ships have told their smoking guests to ship out For Benson & Hedges 100’s rock the boat BOOKS AtatliMm If you happen to be both a wine enthusiast and a history buff James M Gahler has written a vintage book for you Passions The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson is an account of ihe adventures of the third President of the United States along the oenological trail both in this country and abroad Jefferson who kept the finest cellar in America at his home in Monlicello gleaned most of his knowledge of wine during his year as a L'S minister in Europe The author has followed his travel routes through France England Italy and Germany Finding that some of the sites he visited —and nearly all the wines he sampled — are still flourishing Gabler quotes extensively firm Jefferson s diaries and letters gives his appraisals of various wines he enjoyed and describes his ef- - BENSON & HEDGES 100's la forts to plant his own vineyards in Virginia The hook goes well beyond being a dry— if you'll pardon the term —recital of facts to celebrate the human side of one of the most famous of all -- Americans Illustrated with maps and period prints it is published appropriately by the Bacchus Press of Baltimore (S2995) Available in book- I OTQ JIIi CHILDRIN THE LENGTH YOU GO TO FOR PLEASURE The cover of a new children's book called Coming to America: The Story of Immigration (Scholastic SIS9S) shows a shipload of people cheering as they pass the Statue of Liberty It well illustrates the story of how our ancestors (and perhaps some of us) came to this country Betsy Maestro does a fine job of boiling the story down to 40 pages (starting with the Ice Age yet!) and manages to encompass virtually all groups Her description of the immigrants' scary ordeal at Ellis Island is particularly gripping but this is a very upbeat book made all the warmer by Susannah Ryan's sunny illustrations raaa ta anm an an aaaaot naairwr i |