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Show Your Library by Bev. Wm. Burton Hello Friends: Something new was started last Saturday in the Children's division. A story hour was held for all boys and girls five years of ago and up. The story teller wa.s Sonya Nielson. Many boys and pirls came and everyone had a f'no time. This story hour will be a regular event now. It will dismiss in plenty of time to attend the ma-inee ma-inee at the theatre. The story teller this week will be Mrs. Edith Kirtley. Boys and girls, as well as adults, love the man whose birthday birth-day comes on Feb. 12: Abraham Lincoln. Children fill find several sever-al good books in their library about this grat American. For instance, thore's one called "Abe Lincoln Grow'3 Up," by Carl Sandberg. And there's "Abraham Lincoln, Humble and Great," by James S. TiDpet. Then there is a mighty interesting book called "Story of the Presidents," by Maude and Miska Petersham, which gives a brief sketch of all the presidents from Washington to Eisenhower. In the adult division of your library there are two new books on Lincoln, One bears the title "Three Rivers South: A Story of Young Abe Lincoln," and was written by Virginia S. Eifert, with illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton. It tells the story of how in the spring of 1831 young Abe Lincoln accepted an effer to pilot a flatboat full of produce down three rivers of middle America, from Sangame Town to New Orleans. Or-leans. There was the building of the flatboat, when men and boys gathered daily to watch and listen lis-ten to Abe's tales, laugh at his Jokes, and finally pitch in to help. The story depicts Abe's friendship with two gracious, elderly el-derly Southern gentlewomen, and his facing up to the river pirates. Once, Abe gave refuge to a runaway run-away slave, but latei saw him turn up with his family on the slave block in Now Orleans. Abe's solution to that provided a climax to his trip. The general situation and many of the events described in this volume are based on facts, but the characters, charac-ters, other than young Mr. Lincoln, Lin-coln, are fictional. Also of interest is "Lincoln in Caricature," which is a historical collection with descriptive and biographical commentaries by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. It Is one of the most valuable books on the life and times of Lincoln in recent years. It is a contribution contribu-tion to both history and the graphic gra-phic arts. Our 16th president was greatly loved by some, but was Just as bitterly hated by others. He was savagely attacked in his own time, a fact which Is brought out in this book with the reproduction of the cartoonists' cartoon-ists' art. Mr. Wilson has written an absorbing account of each picture, pic-ture, using a great variety of stories , and anecdotes. Many famed, artists make. this book memorable, as well as several little known prlnt3 from Currier and Ives. You will be able to find many other fine books on Lincoln,1 among which are: "Lincoln his Life in Photographs," by Stefan Lorant; "The Lincoln Reader," edited by Paul M. Angle, and "Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow," Wid-ow," by Carl Sandberg and Paul M. Angle. Wo all benefit from taking a look into the life of a great personality such as was Abraham Lincoln. |