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Show i I BOOKMAN'S NOTES I BY AURELIA BEXNION of the Polish Home Army in a section of Warsaw during the World War. She tells of her experiences and those of her daughter with feeling and understanding un-derstanding of the pathetic, gay and fearless people of Warsaw. At last we have for circulation circula-tion at Sprague John P. Mar-quand's Mar-quand's "B. F.'s Daughter." Whenever there appears a new Marquand book, there is a distinct, dis-tinct, flutter in the book field. This is a comedy 'of manners covering the past 30 years and is his first with a woman as the center of the plot. "King Jesus" by Robert Graves is another book about the life of Christ. Some critics say it is the best of the books by Graves (among them "I, Claudius" and "Claudius, the God.") WESTERN "Cottonwood Law," Kelliner. MYSTERY "Dead Weight," Simmons. Just now there seems to be a trend in writing toward stories about the life of Christ and His times. I wonder if it is because of the popularity of the book "The Robe." Or, perhaps it indicates in-dicates a return to religion and the spiritual which was very much in evidence during the war. In addition to several new books on the subject we just received re-ceived as a gift an older book (1924) . "The Thirtieth Piece of Silver" by Lillian Hayes, which tells the story of one of the coins which Judas received for betraying Jesus as it traveled through the world and its effect on the owners It has been the custom for some time here at the library to put into circulation on the Mon-da3' Mon-da3' at 2 p.m. following the publication pub-lication of this article, the books that are herein listed. On one of the bulletin boards we keep typed lists of these books and those of last week for the benefit bene-fit of those who may have forgotten for-gotten the previous week's list. We have postals here at a nominal nom-inal price which may be used to reserve books. However, postals pos-tals cannot be used for books that have not yet circulated. There is no charge for the use of any book in the library, except ex-cept as a deposit when the borrower bor-rower does not have a library card. To Be Released Jan. 27 y "The Roosevelt I Knew," by Frances Perkins is one of the new books about the late President Presi-dent Franklin D. Roosevelt that is on the very popular list of non-fiction. Miss Perkins was one of two whose membership on the Roosevelt cabinet spanned span-ned his administration. She knew him before he became president. Her book is not so much a political story as it is one of the man himself how he thought out problems, his difficulties, dif-ficulties, his fears and his needs. It is surely a worthwhile book for those who wish to understand under-stand this remarkable man. Mary Hamman and the editors of Mademoiselle have compiled from the magazine's "Jobs and Futures" Department, this recently re-cently published book "The Mademoiselle Mad-emoiselle Handbook" which will prove helpful to those women who are working how to dress, what to do and even how to combine husbands and babies with a career. Though the book "Arbitration and the National Labor Relations Board" was published in 1938, it is still important on the sub-pect. sub-pect. It is one of the reference shelf books compiled by Nichols and Logan. Irene Orsaka, autheor of "Silent "Si-lent Ts the Vistula" was in charge of the woman's army post |