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Show BOOKMAN'S NOTES BY AURELIA BEXXIOX The liooks listed each week in this column are usually new books or new revisions of comparatively recent books.. It does not include older books that are just being addecMo our collection tnd so does not indicate indi-cate all the books that go into circulation each week. So this week I'm going to tell about three books that have just been out on the shelves all of them gifts to the library for which we are grateful. One one of these books is Samuel McComb's "Faith, The Greatest Power in the AVorld," published by Harper Brothers in 1915. Another hook is Watt's and CargiU's "Highways In College Composition," a Prentice Hall publication of 1930. I wondet how many people are missing the delightful reading to be found in Washington Irving's "The Sketch Book." The reading read-ing of this book is made much more delightful by the new Lit-eraiw Lit-eraiw Classic edition of 1945, with its interesting illustrations, its large print and the easy-on-the-eyes color of the paper used. Have you ever thought what history would have been if Napoleon Na-poleon had escaped to America? If John Wilks Booth had missed? miss-ed? If Lee had won at Gettysburg? Gettys-burg? There is a book (not at Sprague) edited by J. C. Squire called "If; Or, History Rewritten" with articles by Quedalla, Chesterton, Maurois, Van Loon, Ludwig and others. Interesting to speculate on, anyway. any-way. Books to be Released March 17, 1947: "The Model Aircraft Handbook' Hand-book' Winter. Here is a book of planes and in addition the author tells how and why. He was editor of Air Trails Pictorial Pic-torial and as such kept in touch with 2 million model makers over the ' country. Have you ever heard of D. D. T.? Are you troubled by insects in-sects in the house or garden? Read the new hook "D. W. T. and t h e Insect Problem," Leary, Fishbein, Salter. At last comes in book form John Hersey's "Hiroshima" which has appeared previously in the New Yorker of August 31, 1946. It tells how 6 people in Hiroshima were affected by the first atom bomb which destroyed destroy-ed that city. Lewis Gannett called the report "the best reporting re-porting to come out of this war." "I Xame Thee Mara" by Edmund Ed-mund Galligan is a story of two ships owned by two sets of brothers, and the search that these men made in the northwest north-west Atlantic Ocean for one of the brothers lost at sea. The ac- tion takes place around Newfoundland, New-foundland, Nova Scotit time between the two world wars and provides plenty of adventure, romance, history, humor and tragedy. Western Romance: "By Way of Wyoming," by Curtis Bishop. Detective and Mystery: "The Silent Speaker," a new Nero Wolfe noved by Rex Stout. Meetings: March 19. V.F.W. at 8 p.m. Of the 50 books designated as the oustanding books of 1946 as listed by American Library association member for perma-I perma-I nent value or immediate significance sig-nificance with wide appeal, Sprague Library has the following: follow-ing: Bridge: "Singing Waters." I Bulosan: "America Is in the I Heart." Dean: "Four Cornerstones of I Peace." i Fowler: "A Solo in Tom-Toras." Tom-Toras." Gould; "Yankee Storekeeper." ' Hersey: "Hiroshima." West." Ingersole: "Top Secret." Kravchenko: "I Choose Freedom." Free-dom." LaFarge: "The Sudden Guest." 1 Logan: "Xegro's Faith in America." Perkins: "The Roosevelt I Knew." Roosevelt: "As He Saw It." Schmitt: "David, the King." Seagrave: "Burma Surgeon Returns." Sevareid; "Xot So Wild a Dream." Sharp; "Brittania Mews." Ward: "Snake Pit." Welty: "Delta Wedding." White: "Autobiography of William Allen White." |